
Best Newspaper Writing
CQ Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
504 pages
978-0-87289-612-3 (ISBN)
Description
Bring the Poynter faculty into your classroom! For more than 25 years, Poynter faculty have presented the year's best newswriting and community service photojournalism with the winners and finalists of the American Society of Newspaper Editors annual competition. An ideal reader for aspiring journalists, the volume provides quality models students can study and emulate.
Poynter's renowned faculty-including Roy Peter Clark, Karen Dunlap, Tom French, Kenny Irby, Chip Scanlan, and Keith Woods-take your students "Behind the Story" with the book's much heralded features. In-depth interviews with the winners let readers benefit from unique insight into how these reporters developed their stories into, in some cases, Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces. Ethical challenges are tackled, as are discussions of how to report and present news online."Sources Say" features offer students perspective on a piece from those at the heart of the story, while the ever-popular "X-Ray Readings" are back, dissecting articles to show students exactly how writers ply their craft, sentence by sentence.
Always covering the range of journalism, this edition showcases sections on breaking news, investigative reporting, editorials, narrative writing, columns, photojournalism, plus new sections on covering immigration, race and ethnicity, and writing about human connections.
Poynter's renowned faculty-including Roy Peter Clark, Karen Dunlap, Tom French, Kenny Irby, Chip Scanlan, and Keith Woods-take your students "Behind the Story" with the book's much heralded features. In-depth interviews with the winners let readers benefit from unique insight into how these reporters developed their stories into, in some cases, Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces. Ethical challenges are tackled, as are discussions of how to report and present news online."Sources Say" features offer students perspective on a piece from those at the heart of the story, while the ever-popular "X-Ray Readings" are back, dissecting articles to show students exactly how writers ply their craft, sentence by sentence.
Always covering the range of journalism, this edition showcases sections on breaking news, investigative reporting, editorials, narrative writing, columns, photojournalism, plus new sections on covering immigration, race and ethnicity, and writing about human connections.
More details
Edition
2008-2009 Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
778 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87289-612-3 (9780872896123)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
I. REPORTING ON DEADLINE
II. COLUMN WRITING
III. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
IV. FEATURE WRITING
V. EDITORIAL WRITING
VI. COVERING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES: IMMIGRATION, RACE AND ETHNICITY
VII. LOOKING BEYOND CONFLICT: REPORTING ON HUMAN CONNECTIONS
VIII. COMMUNITY SERVICE PHOTOJOURNALISM
II. COLUMN WRITING
III. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM
IV. FEATURE WRITING
V. EDITORIAL WRITING
VI. COVERING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES: IMMIGRATION, RACE AND ETHNICITY
VII. LOOKING BEYOND CONFLICT: REPORTING ON HUMAN CONNECTIONS
VIII. COMMUNITY SERVICE PHOTOJOURNALISM