Use your special insight to recommend election choices
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Assume the attitude of a lifelong learner
More art than science. More craft than vocation. More a calling than a profession.
All these statements are true about our chosen field of journalism....
If one tip can improve your work, it would be…this one!
Bart Pfankuch is an investigative reporter for South Dakota News Watch. Write to him at bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org.
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Slow-learner, brick-by-brick approach to collecting facts
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Writing coach
Jim Stasiowski
welcomes your
questions
or comments.
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(775) 354-2872
or write to:
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Ivory Ann Drive
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