Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Deadlines and how to meet them

BREAKING NEWS: If you have breaking news of obvious immediate importance (spot news, scoops), file the story no later than midnight of the day it breaks. Talk to me, too. No promises, but you may have something the Kaimin would want to publish.

NEWS FEATURES
: The earlier the better, but the hard deadline each week is noon Friday.

How to format and file your stories:


1. Send them to me as e-mail attachments in Word. My e-mail: dennis.swibold@umontana.edu.

2. Double-space all copy. Indent paragraphs. Put your name, the date and a short description of the story ("Mayor resigns") at the top left of the copy. Then leave three inches of blank space before you begin the story.

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