We’ve found some No Train, No Gain archives

Some archives of No Train, No Gain are available through the Internet Archive.

Thanks to Bill Bradley of Philadelphia, who pointed this out in a comment on my earlier blog post about the demise of NTNG, a resource for newsroom training materials, for which I volunteered for several years.

I haven’t explored it fully, but it doesn’t appear that all of the pages have been archived. But I am pleased to see that some have been. Some of my old workshop handouts I have found (most probably in need of updating):

• “You didn’t hear this from me …” (my workshop on dealing with confidential sources)
• Our cheating culture (my workshop on preventing and detecting plagiarism and fabrication)
• When do private matters become news?
• What’s fair game for public figures?
• Managing projects for successful results
• Tell your story in layers
• Grammar matters
• Strong from the start (my workshop on writing leads)
• Covering the big, breaking story
• Mastering your beat
• Scribbling with purpose (my workshop on taking notes)

And some training materials from others:

• Gregg McLachlan’s The But of all leads
• Laurie Hertzel’s Conquering deadline writing
• Joe Hight’s Find the clear path
• Joe Hight’s The Lucky 13 … ways to become a good writer
• Kevin McGrath’s Think short
• Vicki Simons’ Meeting watch
• Bill Luening’s Write tight
• Deborah Potter’s Revise and conquer

I doubt that everything from NTNG is in this archive. I’ve hit lots of dead links. But I’m glad to see that many of these training resources were saved.