{"id":5753,"date":"2021-10-12T12:14:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/?p=5753"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T19:27:39","slug":"faculty-spotlight-professor-katina-paron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fm.hunter.cuny.edu\/journalism\/index.php\/2021\/10\/12\/faculty-spotlight-professor-katina-paron\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight: Professor Katina Paron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Journalism Education One Tweet at a Time  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Katina Paron<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As someone who has worked with beginning journalists her entire career, I should be unphased by giving different writers the same feedback multiple times a week. \u201cRewrite this lead so it is not a generalization.\u201d \u201cWhere is your nut graph?\u201d and \u201cThis quote is missing attribution\u201d are some popular first draft comments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lot of the early mistakes are standard and even if a writer knows they should follow AP Style guidelines for dates and standalone cities, that doesn\u2019t mean they always do. So while I know making mistakes and learning are all part of the process of becoming a professional journalist, sometimes repeating myself in Google doc comments feels like shouting at the rain. Can anyone hear me when I tell them to \u201cStick with said.\u201d for the attribution or \u201cDon\u2019t lead with background.\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During one particularly frustrating day of editing first drafts for teen-written, \u201cThe Future is Ms.\u201d Column I produce for Ms. Magazine, I decided that if I tweeted out my comments, maybe a young writer would see it and save some other editor a gray hair or two. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One hundred and fifty posts later, those \u201cDear Teen Journalist\u201d tweets took on a life of their own. The goal is always to educate and provide writing advice to young reporters. Based on the feedback, there seem to be many journalism teachers and professors who also find value (and validation) from my posts. There is now a @DearTeenJournalist Instagram that presents the messages as an animated gif in a cool typewriter font.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So now whenever I find myself giving feedback that I\u2019ve given hundreds of times before, I don\u2019t get frustrated. Instead I see it as a challenge to rephrase my message and produce more journalism tips for social media. After all, as Nora Ephron said, \u201cEverything is copy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow Dear Teen Journalist on <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Instagram<\/em><\/a> and check our Professor Paron\u2019s book:  “A NewsHound’s Guide to Student Journalism” https:\/\/newshoundbook.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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