When journalists of different disciplines get together to talk about a story, interesting things may happen. Let a writer talk about a story in the works, and you may hear key phrases that lead to great headlines and compelling visuals. I pulled these 1998 pages from The Charlotte Observer, where I worked as design director, as examples.
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