Category / Teaching Aids

Listen to a series of radio documentary excerpts illustrating a variety of techniques for producing compelling radio, from the producers of the CBC’s documentary program Outfront. The site includes links to lots…

The Knight Ohio Program for Editing and Editing Education gathers and creates resources for editing professors, students and working professionals. The site includes links, downloads and multimedia content, including an interactive headline…

An article from Michael Weinstein, the features editor at the Charlotte Observer, about how to write short.

The summary of a lengthy presentation by Neil Conan, the host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, to the Poynter Institute on broadcast interviewing.

The Neiman Narrative Digest is building an archive of notable pieces of narrative journalism which can be searched by source, topic and format. The full text of some pieces are available free.…

An August 2006 feature on John Sawatsky from National Public Radio. The page includes an article on Sawatsky’s evolution from journalist to journalism prof to expert on teaching interviewing to journalists around…

Roy Peter Clark is a senior scholar with the Poynter Insitute for Media Studies. In 2002 he wrote a list of tips for journalism educators which can be found at the site…

The Committee for Concerned Journalists has a variety of tools on its website to help journalists, students and teachers, including this list of seven basic tools for Investigative Reporting produced by Clark…

This is a series of online exercises based on grammar, usage and AP style produced and updated regularly by two Americans, Ron Hartung of the Tallahassee Democrat and Gerald Grow, journalism professor…

An advice column full of great information about language rules and grammar tips from the Columbia Journalism Review. The page is updated regularly and well-organized for finding specific rules and tips.