Substance over form

The most valuable thing I’ve learned at orientation was from writing Coach Dick Thien. He told me never to separate good writing from good writing. In one of our breakout sessions, we wrote down goals for our internships. One of mine was having the ability to write hard news, rather than the feature writing that I usually do. Thien told me that good writing will never change, no matter what kind of story I cover – whether it’s a weather story or a story on a city council meeting.

-- Kimberlina Rocha, California State University-Fresno, The Bulletin, Bend, Ore.