What’s an interview? The default answer is that an interview is a personal meeting where you sit down with someone and talk about the subject matter of your article. But what about phone interviews ...

American culture recognizes each individual's written and verbal ideas to be legal property. Thus, borrowing words or ideas from another individual without crediting them is considered stealing, not a ...

These phrases alert your reader that you as a writer are about to summarize or paraphrase another idea established by an authority on a chosen topic. Note that while some of these are quite neutral, ...

Every few weeks or so, the Nieman Foundation asks a journalist to “annotate” a story he or she has written, to provide some insight into the reportorial process and talk through some of the mechanics ...