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Producing relevant content requires knowing your community
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Grow your coverage of agriculture with these helpful tips
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Execute your strength: Put names and faces behind the stories
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All hail the hard-news lead
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Solutions Journalism – Reporting on problems while seeking solutions
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The ‘blue shirt’ won. Is that the best we can do?
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Listening to the voices in your head
Bart Pfankuch is an investigative reporter for South Dakota News Watch. Write to him at bart.pfankuch@sdnewswatch.org.
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