How do you manage that "hot little ball of panic" when you're near deadline on a medical story? Daniel J. DeNoon offers tips at AHCJ: "Too many interviews eat up your day. And it’s a bad idea to burn people whom you might need in the future by telling them 'thanks but no thanks' when they call. On the other hand, interviews fall through all the time. My usual M.O. is to line up three experts. You almost always get one, and three interviews is not too hard to manage."

Need a word's definition? Just type it into Google, preceded by the string "define:" and Google will look it up on dictionary.com, which also has an audio clip showing how to pronounce it. That's among the tips in this large graphic from hackcollege.com. Also included are tips for searching Google Scholar, as well as some common keyboard shortcuts for zooming in and out, cycling through windows and applications, and making screenshots of the whole screen or a part.

For self-conscious print journalists, being interviewed on radio can be unnerving. Media trainer Brad Phillips offers a dozen tips for easing into the airwaves: "I’ve done hundreds of radio interviews throughout my career. They seem simple. After all, you just pick up a phone or visit a studio and have a conversation with the host. But radio interviews are nothing like normal conversations (unless your friends take listener phone calls and go to commercial breaks!)."

No word on whether Jonah Lehrer will attend (we're guessing not), but the American Copy Editors Society is organizing the National Summit on Plagiarism and Fabrication this April in St. Louis. Meanwhile, the ACES home page offers two recent posts on how copyeditors can help stop plagiarized and fabricated stories from being published. Also, John McIntyre on how copyediting is like parenting a teen.