#you

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

— Kurt Loder

#edit #go #important #important thing #learn

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#coming #find #gonna #i #i think

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

— Kurt Loder

#dismissed #figure #i #i think #news

If you ask questions that interest you, you'll get answers that interest your audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#ask #audience #get #interest #questions

If your audience is young, it'd be youth culture, if your audience is older, it'd be older people, if it were senior citizens, it'd be senior citizen issues. So you try and hit the target audience. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#citizen #citizens #culture #hit #issues

It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#anyway #consider #covering #doing #friend

Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#beautiful thing #down #editor #get #hand

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

— Kurt Loder

#feature #get #going #into #longer

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. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#areas #audience #culture #happening #interest

You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#best #bury #find #go #grabs