When you suggest going out to “meet editors,” exactly how does one go about that? Should it be an editor I’ve already worked with once? Do I invite them out for coffee to present some ideas I have? I absolutely stink at selling myself in person, so I guess what I’m asking is, can you […]

It’s hard not to take feedback on our writing personally, but let’s be honest here, sometimes we do. I’m pretty lucky in that no readers have taken a personal dislike to me and decided to trash everything I write (quite the opposite, really), but I do realize that’s probably just a matter of time as […]

So it’s the day before a big deadline, my first assignment for an international newspaper, and I’m nervous. Really nervous. I do what every sane journalist does in this situation– I spend hours, days, almost a week, hunched over my computer, trying to knock out that perfect first sentence, that perfect second sentence, that perfect […]

I’m quite lucky in that most of my editors trust me to find and work with a photographer that I like, and because of this, I have some idea of how the assigning and selection process works. I know some photographers who are amazing (both personally and professionally– as a policy, I don’t work with […]