Summary
Contents
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This is a book about the art of writing for newspapers and magazine, but doesn't look at punctuation, spelling, and the stylistic conventions of ‘everyday’ journalism. Instead, Good Writing For Journalists presents extended examples of writing which are powerful, memorable, colorful, or funny. Each piece is contextualized and analyzed encouraging readers to learn from the best practitioners. This book inspires those who want to make their writing individual and memorable. Along the way the major elements of non-fiction writing are introduced, in chapters organized by genre – profile writing, reportage, news analysis, investigation, sports writing, personal and opinion columns and ‘lifestyle’ among them.
Constructing Stories
Constructing Stories
Where do Ideas Come from?
Narrative structures may provide a framework for thinking about the world but they don't in themselves provide ideas for stories. Stories are about disruptions to the status quo: things that have been hidden and have just come to light, wrongs that should be put right or just changes in the pattern of things. Most stories on the front pages of newspapers are ‘managed events’: they have been press released or leaked and newspapers have been primed in advance to cover them. Unexpected events have to be big to make it on to a front page – fires, explosions, major accidents, earthquakes, etc.
Go further into your newspaper or magazine and you will come across stories that, while still clearly ...
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