
Writing Feature Stories
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MATTHEW RICKETSON is Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra and has worked as a journalist at The Age, The Australian and Time Australia magazine. He is the author of Telling True Stories and editor of Australian Journalism Today.
CAROLINE GRAHAM is a journalism lecturer at Bond University. She worked at The Daily Mercury, has written for Traveller's Map and 2020 Magazine, and has coordinated interactive data journalism projects for Crikey and The Guardian Australia.
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List of infographics and resources
Acknowledgements
1. Why feature stories matter
2. Creating stories for the full range of media forms
3. The variety of feature stories amid the variety of media forms
4. Being reader-oriented from start to finish
5. Generating fresh story ideas
6. Gathering the raw material
7. The subtle and slippery art of interviewing
8. Seeing things for yourself
9. Finding the right structure for the story
10. Leads, closes and that big lump in the middle
11. Wordcraft
12. Editing your story and getting published
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