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Charles McDonald

Charles McDonald

·Dec 19, 2021

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KEEP IT SHORT How brief lede sentences grip readers “Gary Robinson died hungry.” Edna Buchanan, the Pulitzer Prize winning Miami Herald crime writer wrote brilliant lead sentences. Her brief intro transformed a routine police blotter note into a journalism masterpiece. The tale of an unruly customer in crime-ridden Miami killed over a chicken…

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