Welcome back for another installment of Ask TON. (Wondering what Ask TON is? See here for background information and our introductory post. Click on “Ask TON” above to see previous installments.) Today’s question: I’d like to do more international travel as part of my work. I don’t really know how to begin finding stories in [...]
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Ask TON: Finding international stories
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on March 7th, 2012
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Tags: Ask TON, Borrell, Field Reporting, Finding Ideas, Fox, Graber, International, Pitches, Rosner, Sohn, Stone 
1 Comment »Ask TON: From idea to story
Posted by Jeanne Erdmann and Siri Carpenter on October 27th, 2011
Welcome to day four of our first-birthday palooza. Today, we greet you with another episode of Ask TON. (If you need to catch up on earlier episodes, see here, here, and here.) Here’s the question for today: What questions do you ask yourself about a story that you’re considering pursuing? How do you decide whether it’s a good idea? [...]
Douglas Fox recounts an Antarctic adventure
Posted by Siri Carpenter on March 21st, 2011
In 2007, freelance science journalist Douglas Fox traveled to Antarctica with a team of glaciologists studying rivers and lakes buried under thousands of feet of ice. He and the researchers spent four weeks tent-camping on the ice. They spent up to 10 hours a day on snowmobiles, installing monitoring equipment at key sites on the [...]
Posted in Behind-the-Story Interviews Tags: Carpenter, Discover, Earth Science, Environment, Field Reporting, Fox, Narrative, Notes, Photography, Pitches, Writer Interview 4 Comments »