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It takes journalistic skill to spot good selections for HNN. How do you learn? By doing.

It’s a trial and error approach.

But ask yourself what somebody who is interested in history would want to know.

Think of yourself as an editor at the New York Times whose job is to keep on top of what historians are thinking and talking about — and what the culture at large is doing with history. That's a good start. The idea is to get inside the head of our audience and figure out what they'd want.

This is an important skill set to acquire. For what do writers and journalists always have to keep in mind? WHO THEIR AUDIENCE IS.

Who is our audience?

It's teachers, historians, history buffs, and journalists. Some read HNN to put the news into historical perspective, some simply because they like reading what thoughtful people (historians) are thinking, even if a particular article is not expressly about a topic on which they are bringing to bear the full weight of their historical knowledge base.

Send each article in a separate email. Send the article to: editor@hnn.us.

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