Of all the things that I have done in my professional life – or thought I would ever do for that matter, becoming the political section editor for an on-line newspaper never crossed my mind. I liked most of the reporters I knew (with one or two exceptions, that is), even when they didn’t cover stories the way I felt they should.<\/p>\n
For the past two years I’ve spent a lot of time writing – on learning the craft – the fundamentals and technical aspects of writing, and following the advice of great writers who say the only way to improve your writing is to write – a lot.<\/p>\n
Sometime around the end of April I received an email from a close friend saying an on-line Christian news source was looking for reporters to cover various issues such as church, family, living, business, politics, etc.<\/p>\n
Writing on politics, I thought? Could be interesting.<\/p>\n
A couple of weeks later I made contact, submitted a writing sample and went through an evaluation period before being asked to join The Christian Post (CP) as a full-time reporter covering politics. The best way to describe CP is we cover secular news from a Christian perspective\/angle.<\/p>\n
Soon afterward they asked me to assume the role of section editor for the politics page.<\/p>\n
I absolutely love the job. It’s hard work and I find myself spending 10 to 12 hours each day writing, researching issues, interviewing people, editing other reporters stories and managing the political page. Most of that time is hoping I catch every misspelled word or cumbersome, run-on sentences that myself and others occasionally scribble.<\/p>\n
I hope you will bookmark our site and make it part of your daily news read.<\/p>\n
You can follow us at http:\/\/christianpost.com\/politics\/ and on Twitter @CP_Politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Of all the things that I have done in my professional life – or thought I would ever do for that matter, becoming the political section editor for an on-line newspaper never crossed my mind. I liked most of the reporters I knew (with one or two exceptions, that is), even when they didn’t cover stories the way I felt they should. For the past two years I’ve spent a lot of time writing – on learning the craft – the fundamentals and technical aspects of writing, and following the advice of great writers who say the only way to improve your writing is to write – a lot. Sometime around the end of April I received an email from a close friend saying an on-line Christian news source was looking for reporters to cover various issues such as church, family, living, business, politics, etc. Writing on politics, I thought? Could be interesting. A couple of weeks later I made contact, submitted a writing sample and went through an evaluation period before being asked to join The Christian Post (CP) as a full-time reporter covering politics. The best way to describe CP is we cover secular news from a Christian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-paul"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n