Daily Archives: 3 February 2007

Coming soon: regular haircuts for John Burns

The news that the New York Times‘ Baghdad correspondent John F Burns will become the London bureau chief of the paper, means that the hairiest foreign correspondent on planet earth will no longer be. Burns, a former correspondent of the paper based in New Delhi, and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, always looks like this—desperately…

How to feed your creativity

In the latest issue of PR Tactics, the journal of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), Jack Hart, managing editor and writing coach of The Oregonian discusses the craft of writing, and answers the key issue that stumps most “working” journalists: writer’s block. Sometimes day-to-day work gets away from innovative thinking. Are there things…