Revisiting - Don't Write, Tell

About this episode

Noel King discusses the importance of storytelling through conversation before writing.

Noel King says first things first. Before writing a story, take a friend to a bar and tell them the story. On this archive episode of Sound School , Noel says that's the approach she took back when she reported for Planet Money and it worked like a charm. Her writing was more like telling.

People in this episode

Host: Rob Rosenthal

Guest: Noel King

Topics covered

• storytelling
• writing
• journalism
• communication
• reporting

Keywords

• storytelling
• writing
• Noel King
• Planet Money
• communication

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Planet Money

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