Sentence examples for journalism rules from inspiring English sources

So while quality journalism rules, understanding when, where and how readers arrive ought to help shape a publishing strategy.

Instead of reporters and editors confirming sources and analyzing the information to parse fact from innuendo and conjecture -- which takes time -- they seem to be giving up the ghost of old journalism rules.

Get a good education in grammar, structure, sourcing, fact-checking and other journalism rules.

A newsletter is a little different from a newspaper in that it doesn't have to follow various "unspoken" journalism rules nor does it require articles to be objective.

It's like the old journalism rule: Tell them what you're about to tell them.

The old-fashioned conventions of journalism rule out a column on the subject.

There are only a few men I met on stories I can remember going out with and I always followed the journalism rule: You can have a personal relationship with a subject only after the reporting and writing are finished and the story has run, and, if you do, you can never write about that person again.

In each case he reported – Claus Von Bulow, the parricidal Menendez brothers, the Greenwich, Connecticut murder of a teenage girl allegedly involving a Kennedy relative, the Florida rape acquittal of William Kennedy Smith, and the OJ Simpson double murder acquittal – Dunne broke American journalism's rules by openly rooting for the victim and/or bereaved.

In decades of reporting I have ­generally stuck to journalism's rule number one: don't quote taxi drivers.

(Apologies for breaking journalism's rule number two: don't use anonymous quotes if they are ­pejorative. In Burma, critical sources deserve protection).

The technology may be new, the speed faster, the culture different, but in journalism, the old rules still apply: be skeptical, check it out.