writing tips – Marlena Chertock

Interviewed on Plume for Writers Podcast

I was so happy to receive an email from Sam Tetangco to join an LGBTQ writers roundtable for the Plume: a writer’s […]

I was recently interviewed in Crack the Spine’s Wordsmith series! They asked me how long I’ve been writing, what my greatest challenge […]

Chapter 9: The Classics APRIL 15, 2011 To be a reporter, to be a good reporter, one has to have a passion […]

Chapter 8: Terrorism, war and disasters Writing about terrorism, war and disasters is tricky, has to be accurate and on tight deadlines […]

Chapter 7: The Profile and Feature Story Feature and profile writing has been called the art of journalism, the art of journalistic […]

Alumnus offers editing tips to communications students Marlena Chertock MARCH 16, 2011 Sometimes she has three hours to work on a story […]

Director of Elon University News Bureau Eric Townsend offers communications students writing advice *** Eric Townsend on finding good stories

Marlena Chertock March 11, 2011 Nathan Rode was willing to do grunt work to get where he wanted. He took a position […]

Chapter 5: Explanatory Journalism and Business Writing MARCH 10, 2011 Explanatory journalism is when a reporter writes to explain a topic, issue […]

Chapter 4: Crime and Courts MARCH 4, 2011 The fourth chapter of “America’s Best Newspaper Writing” offers an understanding of how to […]

Chapter 2: Local Reporting and Beats The second chapter of “America’s Best Newspaper Writing” offers a nice introduction to local reporting and […]