Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

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It's gonna be short if it's news; put it at the top. Style's not an issue, just make it news.

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And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

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Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.

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I think television often has dismissed younger people. They figure, well, they're not really watching news, that's not our audience.

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Whomever you're going to interview, you have to be interested in what it is you want to know from them. You have to be interested in the subject.

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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.

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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.

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So, yeah, I think it had a major effect. I think in franchising younger people, it was just an idea that's never been trotted out before, but it makes perfectly good sense.

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Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

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