Ross Markman’s Helpful Tips

By Cinterra Lucas

Reporter Ross Markman provides some informative tips about working as a municipal reporter. “If you are writing on deadline, get background material ahead of time on the issues being discussed,” is a useful tip because if a news report has to be submitted at a certain time, it is best to get your background information ahead of time.

Markman writes “You have to determine what’s newsworthy.” This was also a useful tip because you always want to present something that people are interested in. Based on how many people are affected allows you to know if you will have a big story or not. You never want to publish an article that is only relative to one individual; make sure you think about others as well.

One last tip that I gathered by reading this article was mainly relative to myself as a current student: Ross Markman says “I think real work experience is more important.” As a college student I put a lot of emphasis on taking an internship and by reading about someone else’s experiences; it just motivates me even more. It is one thing to be taught but at times individuals learn more by actually being in the act of doing something, in Ross’s case being a municipal reporter.