The New York Times'
Learning Network features an
"Ask a Reporter"
section. Students can submit questions that could be published on the site with a brief response from the
journalist. The reporter answering the questions rotates, so sometimes you ask a sports reporter and other
times a features writer.
This could be helpful if you come up with a question beyond
the typical, "What's it like being a reporter?" Ask instead
what time they go to work in the morning and what time they leave; or
whether most of their stories are assigned and if so what that
process is like; or how they approach a busy professional about an
interview. Be creative and specific and you'll get creative and
specific responses.
-- Jacky Hicks
