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A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists

Some of these can be taken with a pinch of salt — shallow, facile, glib and slick aren’t insults now? — but the first point is the most important: if you’re not writing for a reader, you’re not being a journalist.

Sun 30 Jan 2011 at 11:58   ·


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You are reading A manifesto for the simple scribe - my 25 commandments for journalists, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Media & Journalism, and was published in January 2011.

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This day in history: 30 January


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