Wanted: Reporters for The Gardens Gazette

Help Keep Arrowhead Gardens Residents Informed & Amused

Wanted: Byline reporters for The Gardens Gazette.

* News coverage
* Trip reports
* Current events 
* Meeting reports
* Feature stories
* Performance reviews
* Person-to-person Interviews
* Resident profiles
* Photo journals
* Podcasts

Willing to:
* Take field notes. (see resources below) 
* Attend events and activities.
* Interview residents, staff and visitors.
* Investigate stories proposed by residents.
* Follow established standards & practices.
* Submit finished reports for the website.
* Optional: Use smartphone recording techniques.

If interested:
@ Contact  John Walling [email protected]
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Resources at TheGardensGazette.org > Blogs > Website

​​Resources:

Contributors Guide

WikiHow:
* How to Be a Reporter 

Amazon: 
* Reporter's Notebooks 

RCFP:
* Consent and its limits 
* Copyright and taped interviews 
* Reporter's Recording Guide PDF (WA State on page 26)

Thoughtco: 
* Anonymous Sources 1 
* Anonymous Sources 2 
* Attribution to Avoid Plagiarism 
* Common Mistakes 
* Fact Checking 
* Feature Stories 1 
* Feature Stories 2 
* Feature Story Elements 
* Follow-up News Stories 
* Good Quotes 
* Holding Attention 
* Ideas for Stories 
* Interviewing a Relative 
* Interviews  
* Interviews for News 
* Inverted Pyramid 1 
* Inverted Pyramid 2 
* Ledes (Leads) 1 
* Ledes (Leads) 2 
* Ledes (Leads) 3 
* Live Events 
* Live News Events 
* Mainbars and Sidebars 
* Note Taking for Interviews 
* Notebooks vs Recorders 
* Objectivity 1 
* Objectivity 2 
* Questions to Ask Relatives 
* Quotes 
* Speeches 
* Style 
* Terms 
* Verbs and Adjectives