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Ideas are the lifeblood of any journalist's career and, although social media and newswires can prove a good source of stories, nothing beats making face-to-face contacts and getting out and about on your beat.
This list of tips from Media Helping Media covers a range of potential sources to speak to and places to go which can help turn up a story, ideal for any aspiring or student journalist.
As the author of the piece, David Brewer, says "If you try all these leads and still end up without a story idea, you are probably not cut out to be a journalist".
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