Young journalist looking for feedback

As mentioned many times, not a big fan of such hard-and-fast-rule pronouncements.

 

A general comment on length of paragraphs.

When I went back to school to get my masters, I got consistently whacked (got a C+ on my first education paper), because my sentences and paragraphs were shorter than what the professors wanted. That came from being in a newsroom for the better part of a decade.

It's a tough balance when you're in college. You want the newspaper stuff to be done right, but at the same time. you want to give the other professors what they want.

I agree with a lot of what has been said.

1. The writing basics are there.

2. Fact-check (have editors who fact-check).

3. Focus locally. Gotta be a tone of potential columns for you.

4. Keep writing.