Blogger Mary Ward offers a breakdown of seven  networking sites for journalists. Mary: Without the abundance of social networking sites available, many sites are staking their claim by catering [...]

Julia Scott is a reporter turned blogger who adapted her print skills> for the web. She currently writes a savvy-spending blog called BargainBabe.com. I asked her to describe the transition. Read [...]

This is a story about a good story ending--good because of the way the ending is set up at two places along the story. But it's also a story about how to get edited: how all of us reporters [...]

During California’s gubernatorial recall, a local writer with a national reputation, Micky Kaus, recorded a couple of minor scoops about Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rowdy youthful days. Kaus used to [...]

What should you do if you stumble upon a story you weren't expecting, a story that's off your beat but grabs you by the throat? If you're Bill Plaschke, you go for it.

Nobody says a word in the following story, published in today's Los Angeles Times. Nobody has to. The writer sensed that the absence of public comment when the body of another dead soldier [...]

Some day your editor is going to point out the use of an expression in your copy and say: "Let's scrap that. It's the 3rd most-used cliché in the nation and we've already used it 1,266 times in [...]

I assigned myself a profile: A syndicated radio talk-show host named Tom Leykis who was based in L.A. and specialized in hard-core sex talk for men. I thought the show was horrifyingly and [...]

Yo, beat reporters. Tired? Feeling like your beat sucks the life out of you with its obligatory nature? Wonder what happened to that annual promise to develop more enterprise off your beat?

Today is the third anniversary of my departure from the Los Angeles Times. I quit, after 26 years, because the paper offered me a year's pay and because. . . well, because I had never taken many [...]