Powerful reviews do more than offer a list of observations about a movie, TV show or play. Reviews, like all forms of opinion writing, work best when they tell a story and connect with their audience. Eric Deggans, the TV critic for NPR, shares these strategies.

Read the tips here.

Pew Research Center regularly makes available the full datasets that underlie most of our reports. We typically do not publish the dataset at the same time as the report. That’s because it takes some time for us to complete all reporting for a given study and to clean and prepare the data for public release. 
There are two ways to locate available datasets.

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Investigative reporters turn routine observations, reports, tips and conversations into questions about the way the world works. Curiosity is the starting point for great stories. 
A Poynter coffee break course lists some places to begin. Check it out here:
http://www.poynter.org/2017/4-places-to-find-story-ideas-for-investigat…  

Journalist’s Resource offers some digital security tips for reporters designed to help them protect their sources and themselves. The tip sheet offers free resources as well as links to tutorials.

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The nice thing about newsletters is that they’re great experimental platforms to test ideas and try new things while thinking differently about the building blocks of the news industry.
Consider these ideas starting points.
Read the 42 ideas by clicking here.
http://www.poynter.org/2017/here-are-42-ideas-for-your-newsrooms-next-n…

Remember that by definition, an adjective is a modifier. So any time you want to use one, ask yourself why you need to modify the noun. 
If you want to use an adjective, think what its opposite might be. Would you use it then? That can help you decide whether you really need it, or whether that modification can go elsewhere, perhaps where its relevance is clearer.
We’ve often talked about labels; some adjectives act as labels, effectively pointing to the noun as “different.”

Columbia Journalism Review asked journalists what new tools and technology they use to help them do their jobs. Social media editors, curators, and reporters chimed in to tell us about tools that help them face some familiar challenges.

Links to the applications are included, alopng with with brief descriptions and recommendations.

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The simple but frustrating truth is that facts alone are not enough to convince people. Even the most thorough, accurate piece of reporting might still be trumped by a poorly reasoned and false counterargument. Therefore, it's crucial to understand how to publish persuasive factual journalism.

Poynter's coffee break course, 6 ways to spread facts, offers tips for using facts to persuade.

Check out the link here.  

A growing number of research organizations are not only placing their data online, but giving users free tools to help visualize it. 
This overview of a few of these resources focuses especially on economic and development indicators.
Check out the Tip Sheet at https://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/tools-visualize-eco….

This article from poynter.org suggests writers look through a recent story for any word that ends in -ly. If it is an adverb, delete it and read the new sentence aloud. You'll see whether the adverb added power to the sentence or merely took up space.
For more on kicking out adverbs, see the full story: http://www.poynter.org/2017/how-to-write-stronger-sentences-with-fewer-…