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Kudos Deserved: TAPinto

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As the editor of U.S. 1 Newspaper, Richard K. Rein specifically avoiding entering contests, because if you were busy filling out those applications, you weren’t reporting the news. Which was true. I once read that big city newspapers hired staffers just to game the entries.

I’m happy to notice that Rein is getting recognized for unflaggingly reporting local news in Princeton. He didn’t put out the press release — the TAPinto franchise did. I learned, that, as editor of TAPintoPrinceton, he and reporter Carolyn Jones brought home one of 11 statewide prizes from the Center of Cooperative Media.

Rein publishes once a day, the important news for Princeton, whether it’s an event or just the seemingly mundane agenda for a public meeting, it’s sometimes useful and, with the Rein spin, likely interesting.

As below, the press release.

TAPinto Princeton’s reporter Carolyn Jones and owner/publisher Richard Rein were awarded for an investigation into the impact of flooding on historic properties in Princeton.

The press release continues with Rein’s quote:

“This award to journalist Carolyn Jones and TAPinto Princeton Community News was gratifying in two ways. First it recognizes Carolyn’s ability to cut through the procedural details and present the big picture of how the planning process works (or doesn’t work) in the face of a changing climate,” Rein said. “It also shows that TAPinto Princeton’s meeting-by-meeting coverage of the planning board and other official committees pays off. Some fascinating stories occasionally do surface. 

“It’s great to publish once a day every day, as we do at TAPinto. It’s also great to be able to step back and look at the big picture, as Carolyn Jones did with this story,” Rein added.

Full disclosure: I used to work for Rich and, very occasionally, now help with the calendar. The image was generated by AI.

Finding your ender: Here’s help

Memoir

 

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Tabernacle by sculptor Adam Kraft at St. Lorenz Kirche in Nurnberg.

Good writers supposedly know how they will end an article before they start. Enders were always my burden (as in this gratuituous photo of a 15th=century stone sculptor). 

From Medium, here is extensive help, by Jason Shen, filed for my personal  use and perhaps useful to you.

How Great Writers End Their Articles: What you can learn from the final paragraphs of 100 top feature articles from Malcolm Gladwell, the Atlantic, Fast Company, and the New York Times

Here is how to write an op ed piece, a la the Financial Times. The only Princeton connection was, I found it on the website of the Princeton University Press. It’s good for memoir writing or just plain writing.

“If any like-minded person could have written your piece then assume someone has.”