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Before Breakfast

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Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Communicate better by writing for the ear

Transcript

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0:00.0

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest murder mystery in American history.

0:05.6

That's Rob Briner.

0:07.6

Rob called me, Soledette O'Brien, and asked me what I knew about this crime.

0:11.6

Well, ask, who had the motive to assassinate a sitting president.

0:16.0

Then we'll pull the curtain back on the cover-up.

0:20.0

The American people need to know the truth.

0:22.0

Listen to who the truth.

0:22.6

Listen to who killed JFK on the I Heart Radio app,

0:27.0

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.3

Welcome to Before. I'm

0:38.0

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.0

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.0

Today's tip is to become a better writer

0:48.0

by reading what you write out loud before sharing it.

0:51.0

I've always loved to write, and so I was really lucky that my first job after college

0:56.7

was a year-long internship at USA Today. I worked on the op-ed page mostly fact-checking and helping with layout.

1:04.7

The biggest upside was that I worked for some very encouraging editors.

1:09.3

When I expressed interest in writing op-eds, they did not immediately shoot down the idea of a 23-year-old

1:15.6

intern doing such a thing.

1:18.2

They helped me work on my writing, and over the course of the year I got several essays published.

1:24.1

With everything I wrote I used some of the best writing advice I ever got.

1:28.3

And this came from one of my editors there.

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