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Writing for News Media: The Storyteller's Craft / Edition 1
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Writing for News Media: The Storyteller's Craft / Edition 1
Current price: $49.95
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Writing for News Media: The Storyteller's Craft / Edition 1
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is a down-to-earth guide on how to write news stories for online, print and broadcast audiences. It celebrates the craft of storytelling, arguing for its continued importance in a modern newsroom. With dynamism and humour, Ian Pickering, a journalist with 30 years’ experience, offers readers practical advice on being a news journalist, with step-by-step guidance on creating a great story and writing the perfect news copy.
- extracts from published news articles to help illustrate the dos and don’ts of storytelling;
- the ten golden rules for structuring and putting together a successful news article, including ‘Nail the intro’, ‘Let it flow’ and ‘Keep it simple’;
- instruction on writing stories for different specialist subjects, including politics, court cases, economics, funnies and celebrity;
- help for readers on how to write for broadcast news;
- tips on how to write headlines, how to use pictures, how to make the most of quotations and how to avoid common style and grammar mistakes;
- glossaries covering a range of different aspects of news journalism, including types of news story, online and data journalism, typesetting and broadcasting.
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