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\n Pulitzer Prize winner and St. Petersburg Times reporter Lane DeGregory spoke at the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors Conference<\/a><\/em> in Florida earlier this month. She has made a name for herself as a reporter and a storyteller during more than two decades of newspaper reporting. Singing the praises of the editors she\u2019s worked with \u2013 Ronald Speer<\/a> and Maria Carrillo<\/a><\/em> at The Virginian-Pilot, as well as Mike Wilson<\/a><\/em> during the bulk of her tenure at the St. Petersburg Times* \u2013 DeGregory credited them with saving her again and again. \u201cI\u2019ve been really, really lucky with my editors,\u201d she said. \u201cI know that without them, I would not be here today. To all of you guys who don\u2019t feel appreciated, know that you\u2019re making a giant difference to a lot of scared and uncertain reporters out there. After 22 years, I\u2019m still one of those.\u201d<\/em>

Here are DeGregory\u2019s 10 practical tips for editors (condensed and edited):<\/em>

Tip No. 1:<\/strong> Don\u2019t laugh<\/strong> at your reporters<\/strong>. You have all been doing this longer than a lot of us, <\/span>especially your interns or primary reporters. My best editors have said, \u201cOK, yeah, I\u2019ve heard that before, but what can you do differently?\u201d

Tip No. 2:<\/strong> Run interference for me<\/strong>. Doing general assignment the last 10 years, it\u2019s hard; most of my stories somehow actually end up on someone else\u2019s beat. But Mike is masterful. He\u2019s really good about saying, \u201cLet me call this editor and see if that person is going to do that story, or how you could work with that person to do that story.\u201d I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m stepping on their toes, they don\u2019t feel like they’re being robbed, and a lot of times it works out to be a really great collaboration between us.

Tip No. 3: Look into my eyes.<\/strong> I had never written first person before I came to the St. Pete Times. I had never wanted to write first person. My first story<\/a> that I did, I had my 4-year-old in the back seat of the car on the way home from a wedding, and he was holding his little stuffed elephant out the window as we\u2019re driving on the highway. He let go in the rain, and the elephant flew out on the highway. The next Monday, when I came into work, I was telling Mike and my coworkers, \u201cOh, my God. My stupid kid. We lost Bobo on the side of the highway. It was a three-hour ordeal to figure out how to get Bobo: Should I get Bobo? Should I teach the kid a lesson with Bobo?\u201d

We were talking about it before our Monday meeting, and Mike said, \u201cLane, just go write that story.\u201d I was like, \u201cWhat story?\u201d He said, \u201cWrite the Bobo story.\u201d I had never conceived that me yelling at my kid about a stuffed elephant would have been a story. And that story got more response than everything I\u2019ve done except \u201cThe Girl in the Window<\/a>.\u201d Over the years, I\u2019ve found that whenever I have a story that I really start talking about in my life, he\u2019ll go, \u201cDo you want to write something about that?\u201d And most of the time, it\u2019s never even crossed my mind that, \u201cYeah, I want to write something about that.\u201d But if you give people the opportunity, that\u2019s when the really good stories come out, because it\u2019s things they\u2019ve lived or they care about.

Tip No. 4: Size matters.<\/strong> When I started working at the St. Petersburg Times, a good Sunday story was 100 inches. Now I hug on Mike if I get 50. Our sense of what a long story is, or what a big story is, has changed so much. I know I can do the big, long pieces. I have a really hard time with the little, tiny pieces. I usually write twice as much as I\u2019m supposed to and then have to cut it in half, but Mike\u2019s been awesome about challenging us to do that. We\u2019ve done several group projects. It\u2019s been really fun. We\u2019ll throw out a topic, and then all four or five of us on the feature team will have 24 hours to find something and then write it in less than 1,000 words. I think he made us do it in 6 inches one time. He tells us ahead of time, so we know when we go out we\u2019re reporting 6 inches, not 60 inches, and that helps a lot. Those little exercises really bond our staff.

Tip No. 5: Get me out of here.<\/strong> I know we used to have a lot more money to send people traveling than we do now, but sometimes you\u2019ve just got to get your reporters off the phone and out of the desk. I know there\u2019s types of reporters who don\u2019t want to leave the office, and those are really the ones you\u2019ve got to kick in the butt the most, because the stories you find on the phone are never the stories you find out in person<\/a>. So save up for the good ones or a little bit of money and send people when you\u2019re know it\u2019s going to make a difference.

Tip No. 6: Buy a couch.<\/strong> You guys are half therapists at least; you probably feel like more than half sometimes. You need a place your reporters can dish to you. You need a place that\u2019s not at your elbow at a terminal where you guys can have a heart-to-heart conversation about how you feel about things or what\u2019s going on in their lives, not just \u201cCan you get this to me by 4:00?\u201d

Take notes when I tell you about my story. There\u2019s a lot of times I\u2019ll come back, and I\u2019ll have everything fresh in my mind from an interview, and I\u2019m so excited and spilling it all, and I forget what it was when I sit down at the keyboard. It gets lost sometimes between Mike\u2019s office and my keyboard. So you guys can play reporter back to us, and that really helps, reminding us of the things that were important or fresh or exciting when we came back, before we get bogged down with \u201cOh, shoot. It\u2019s 4:00 and I\u2019ve only written 6 inches.\u201d

Tip No. 7: Send me walking<\/strong>. It\u2019s so easy when someone comes back from a story to go, \u201cOK, go sit down and write it.\u201d\u00a0But if you make that reporter go get a Coke, go get a cookie, go take a walk somewhere for 10 minutes and look at the water, all that stuff starts gelling, and it makes it so much quicker and faster and easier to write than when you sit at that computer and say, \u201cWhat the heck am I going to do with this?\u201d I write almost all my leads walking, folding laundry, driving my car. I can\u2019t think of my stories when I\u2019m sitting at the terminal.

I don\u2019t know if you guys have time for this, or if it works, but we talk about my story before I go report it, we talk about my story after I report it, and again before I write it \u2013 at least once, maybe twice sometimes \u2013 and then we edit it. But that time at the beginning (“What am I doing?”) and that time in the middle (“OK, I know this, but what is it?”) are the most important times to me. That\u2019s even more important than the final editing.

Tip No. 8: Show your strokes. <\/strong>Show what you\u2019re changing; don\u2019t just change it. Show me what you change, because that\u2019s how I learn. It helps to know to know why you\u2019re changing something and how you\u2019re changing something and how you want me to be better at it the next time.

The other thing that happens that really is helpful is to take my notes away from me. When I come back from a story, I get wedded to my notebook and feel like I’ve got to put in every fact or every quote, like, \u201cI interviewed that dude for two hours, I owe him a paragraph.\u201d No, I don\u2019t.

I put my notes in my living room while I\u2019m writing in my office. I don\u2019t want them there with me because I get bogged down. I put things in brackets \u2013 like what color was their shirt, how old were they, how many years had they had that job \u2013 and I go back to fill in the facts. But if you tell the story with your brain and your hands instead of your notes, it comes out so much more clearly. The editor has to do that to you sometimes. It\u2019s really fun to pretend you\u2019re working when you\u2019re just flipping through your notes, but it\u2019s so much faster without them.

Tip No. 9: Save me from myself<\/strong>. Reporters try to put as much as we can out there, and we overdo it sometimes to try to impress you guys, and a lot of times it doesn\u2019t work. I can\u2019t see that my metaphors really stink, but when Mike reads through it, and I can see he\u2019s marked something in there, I\u2019m like, \u201cYeah, I kind of knew that didn\u2019t work.\u201d

And the other thing is about attitude: You know which of your reporters are overly cynical, and which ones are overly Hallmark-y. I\u2019m way too Hallmark-y, and he edits the Hallmark out of me every single time I do a story. You need that give and take, that yin and yang of your reporter and editor. Help your reporter not be so sappy or not be so cynical, and find that middle ground.

Tip No. 10: Read my story out loud. <\/strong>This is the one directly from Mike. No one has ever done this for me before, and it\u2019s changed my world. Read my story out loud. It does not sound the same when I read it to myself. I read all my stories to my dog, but I don\u2019t get much feedback that way. Mike has a beautiful voice, and I love hearing my words when he reads them, and I can hear things like cadence, or this sentence is too long, or he got tripped up on these clauses.

And the endings \u2013 he\u2019s always great about saving me on the endings. Your reporters probably do this, too. I always write about three sentences too many \u2013 at least two too many. My ending is buried somewhere up there, and you guys have to help me find it. Reading it out loud really helps, because you realize you hit that ba-dum-bump, and then you go bump-bump-bump-bump, and you dribble off at the end. You need somebody to help you erase the dribble off the end and have that really strong, dynamic ending.

—–<\/span>

*DeGregory also noted her appreciation of her brief stints with St. Petersburg Times editors Kelley Benham and Tom French.<\/em>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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