This handout accompanies a training session -- Writing short AND well -- taught by Rosland Briggs-Gammon at Illinois NewsTrain on April 1, 2022. It includes information from a 2018 Phoenix NewsTrain session of the same title by Arizona State Professor Fernanda Santos. Rosland Briggs-Gammon is the director of academic programs and excellence initiatives at Alverno College in Milwaukee. For more information on the News Leaders Association's NewsTrain, see https://www.newsleaders.org/newstrain.