Tom Huang
Tom Huang is Sunday & Enterprise Editor at The Dallas Morning News and Adjunct Faculty member of The Poynter Institute, where he oversees the school’s writing program. He has worked at The Dallas Morning News since 1993, first as a feature writer, then as features editor, and now as the Sunday Page One editor. During Huang’s time as features editor, the newspaper’s features coverage was named one of the nation’s best by the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards and by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. His reporting has taken him from Bosnia and Vietnam and the Athens Olympics to the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 attacks in New York. At Poynter, he teaches seminar sessions in ethics, diversity, writing and leadership issues, and he was co-editor of Poynter’s Best Newspaper Writing book for 2008-2009. Before moving to Dallas, he worked at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, where he covered courts, city hall, demographics and general assignments. He is president of the Society for Features Journalism Foundation and serves on the national advisory board of the Asian American Journalists Association. He is a 1988 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science and engineering.
Notes from a newsroom, in a city that’s mourning
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Find your resilience: 5 tips for new editors
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How race factors into the conversation about Ann Curry’s possible ouster from ‘Today’ Show
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How to make every word count when writing about people, places & things
If you’d like to bring your story to life in a tight space -- say,…
5 ways young journalists can stay motivated, thrive in the newsroom
Dear Young Journalist, I’m writing this letter to you because I get the feeling you…
5 ways journalists can strike a better work-life balance
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3 things journalists can learn from ‘Linsanity’
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The 6 things you learn as a journalism mentor
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10 tips for journalists who want to be better presenters
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What movies, comic books & songs teach us about writing powerful scenes
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5 ways to effectively oversee a project involving multiple journalists
For the past four months, I shepherded a Dallas Morning News project on the lasting…
How introverts can strengthen their presence, roles in the newsroom
I am a quiet leader, fumbling and stumbling along, barely able to figure out how…
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