Always have a pen! (And backup, too.)

While browsing Stuff Journalists Like, I came across their Sh*t Journalists Say video (pardon my language).

It is an entertaining video to watch, but one line the actress/journalists repeated numerous times stuck with me: “Do you have a pen?”

It is a golden rule in journalism to always have a pen and reporter’s notebook with you wherever you may be when on assignment. Sadly, many (including myself) have been guilt of not implementing this rule. Pens are essential!

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“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.”

- Henry Anatole Grunwald