Feature Writing for Journalists
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 27. December 2030
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-138-94583-8 (ISBN)
Description
Feature Writing for Journalists examines the specific skills and challenges in writing engaging, exploratory and illuminating features for publication across a range of media. Exploring the whole craft of feature writing, from developing an idea to different methods of publication, the book examines a range of feature types, including personal features, long form news-based stories and different types of review. The new edition features a brand new chapter on creating engaging online and interactive features and highlighting the specific skills and challenges in writing for digital platforms. Examples are updated and new interviews with staff and freelance writers are featured throughout.
Reviews / Votes
Caryl Rivers, Boston University, USA - 'Strengths of the current edition? Very practical [...] Which topics need to be updated or added to? A bit more on web features [...] Would you consider adopting a new edition of this book? Yes I would, [as] a core text.'Clare Trodden, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - 'Strengths of the proposed book? Good to see an attempt to address skills across platforms. Also good that the importance and difficulty of feature writing, from coming up with ideas to seeing them through, is addressed.'
Mary Hogarth, Southampton Solent University, UK - 'Strengths of the proposed book? Good, clear content which is easy to digest in small chunks [...] Which topics need to be updated or added to? There needs to be a section on writing pitches, approaching editors and building a relationship with them. Also the big need in industry (according to the PPA) is being able to adapt content such as features to go across a publication's platform which means online and social media. This is a must.'
More details
Series
Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Illustrations
10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
10 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-138-94583-8 (9781138945838)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Sharon Wheeler is a freelance journalist and visiting lecturer in journalism at several UK universities. She is co-editor of The Journalistic Imagination (with Richard Keeble, 2007), and has contributed to Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction (2005) and Questions of Identity in Detective Fiction (2007). She is a regular book reviewer for Times Higher Education, and is co-editor of Crime Review (www.crimereview.co.uk).
Content
1. Setting out your Features Stall 2. Developing an Idea 3. How to Write Features: Getting Personal 4. How to Write Features: Digging for News 5. How to Write Features: Developing an Ego 6. Writing reviews 7. Packing a Punch - The Role of Features in the Print Media 8. Online and Interactive Features Glossary Bibliography and Further Reading