Posts by Ryan McDermott

5 Reasons We Shouldn’t Let Long-Form Journalism Die
The greatest pieces of journalism, the ones that changed things, have rarely been rip-and-read pieces.
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Romanticizing Alcohol (or Why Writing Drunk Is a Terrible Idea)
I’d peel my face off the pillow and read what I’d written the night before. And even in my still fermented state, I knew it was trash.
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4 Things to Know When Applying for a Reporting Job
Even if you are a social media maven who gets tons of web traffic, your work will be useless if you can’t report and write and if you don’t have great news judgment.
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Learning to Write at America’s Finest News Source
Take all that you learned in J school about inverted pyramid, ledes and sourcing, and on top of that try to be funny. It’s not easy at all.
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