Good Writing for Journalists: Narrative, Style, Structure

• Introduction

Part I: Thinking about Writing

• Chapter 1: Let's Hear it for Story-Tellers
• Chapter 2: Constructing Stories

Part II: Examples of Great Writing

• Chapter 3: Reportage
• Gary Younge, ‘This is not racism, it's politics’, Guardian, 20 April 2000
• Martha Gelhorn, ‘Visit Italy’, Colliers magazine, February 1944
• Anthony Loyd, ‘Kalashnikov matriarch emerges to tell of her life as an Afghan warlord’, The Times (London), 21 October 2004
• Martin Wainwright, ‘Villagers clean up after flash floods’, Guardian, 21 June 2005
• Chapter 4: General News Features
• Oliver Burkeman, ‘The fatal step’, Guardian, 5 August 2004
• Yvonne Roberts, ‘Focus: Cannabis psychosis – off your head?’, The Observer, 19 February 2006
• Chapter 5: Topical Features
• Rachel Cusk, ‘Sweetness and light’, Vogue, January 2005
• Emma Brockes, ‘Call me sergeant’, Guardian (G2), 13 December 2001
• Wendell Steavenson, ‘Osama's war: on getting to know an Iraqi terrorist’, Granta, No. 87, September 2004
• George Packer, ‘Gansta war’, New Yorker, 3 November 2003
• Chapter 6: Investigative Features
• James Meek, ‘The £10bn rail crash’, Guardian, 1 April 2004
• Chapter 7: Profiles and Celebrity Interviews
• Libby Brooks, ‘Private lives’, Guardian (G2), 14 May 1999
• Zoe Heller, ‘The little emperor’, Independent on Sunday (Sunday Review), 31 October 1993
• Langdon Winner, ‘The odyssey of Captain Beefheart’, Rolling Stone, 14 May 1970
• Chapter 8: Arts, Sports and Music
• Nancy Banks Smith, ‘The funeral of Diana: trail of tears’, Guardian (TV Review), 8 September 1997, page 12
• Simon Barnes, ‘Gone in 50 seconds, back in six minutes’, The Times, 26 May 2005
• Sasha Frere-Jones, ‘1979: the year punk died, and was reborn’, New Yorker, 1 November 2004
• Chapter 9: Personal and Comment Columns
• Gary Younge, ‘Terms of abuse’, Guardian, 25 February 2002
• Catherine Bennett, ‘Pay more, worry less? Not after Sudan 1’, Guardian, 24 February 2005
• Boris Johnson, ‘Go forth and multiply’, GQ, March 2004, page 174
• Marcelle D'Argy Smith, ‘When a lovely flame dies’, Cosmopolitan, May 1984
• James Surowieki, ‘Hello, Cleveland’, New Yorker (Financial page), 16 May 2005