Using experience-driven advice and compelling articles from scores of newspaper, magazine and online writers, Feature Writing shows how award-winning journalists achieve excellence and national recognition. The Seventh Edition helps the reader cultivate vital journalistic skills through detailed coverage on creating and refining article ideas, conducting research and interviews, writing, and navigating legal and ethical questions. World-class writing examples from Pulitzer Prize feature writers, extensive updates, and timely tips from some of America's best feature writers have made this the premier book in its field for more than three decades.
CHAPTER one The Newspaper Feature Story The Feature: Helen's Story An Overview Newspaper Feature Story Types: News and Timeless Features Categories and Appeals Newspaper Feature Writers: The Right Stuff A Profile of the Pulitzer Winners The Anatomy of a Newspaper Feature Story Mrs. Kelly's Monster by Jon Franklin of the Baltimore Evening Sun A Pulitzer Prize Winner The Future: Trends in Newspaper Feature Writing CHAPTER TWO The Newspaper Feature Story Idea What Newspaper Readers Want to Read How to Get Ideas Focusing Ideas Ideas That Didn't Work Ideas That Worked Life on the Land: An American Farm Family Life on the Land: An American Farm Family by John Camp of the St. Paul Pioneer Press A Pulitzer Prize Winner Pearls Before Breakfast PEARLS BEFORE BREAKFAST by Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post Magazine A Pulitzer Prize Winner CHAPTER Three The Magazine Article and Article Idea How a Magazine Article Differs from a Newspaper Feature Staff Writer Versus Freelancer Three Necessary Skills for the Freelance Writer Stalking the Elusive Article Idea Matching Ideas to Markets Like Something the Lord Made by Katie McCabe for The Washingtonian A National Magazine Award Winner Death of a Playmate by Teresa Carpenter for The Village Voice A Pulitzer Prize Winner Taking the Next Step CHAPTER four Researching for Newspaper Feature Stories and Magazine Articles Newspaper Reference Rooms AND COMPUTER FILES Magazine Reference Resources Computerized Research Using Search Engines and Directories WRITING FOR THE INTERNET On the Decline of Print Journalism Freelancing for the Internet Turning Research into the Finished Article WHERE BUSINESS TRAVELERS LIVE by Joe Brancatelli WHy we hate the airlines and lobve diet coke by Joe Brancatelli CHAPTER five Interviewing for Newspaper Feature Stories and Magazine Articles Kinds of Interviews Getting Ready to Interview Who to Interview Asking for the Interview Persuading People Who Don't Want to Talk When and Where to Interview Researching the Interviewee Conducting the Personal Interview Making Friends Asking Questions Attribution Guidelines Gathering Material Fixing Quotes Description Excerpt from The Boy Behind the Mask by Tom Hallman Jr. of The Oregonian A Pulitzer Prize Winner Excerpt from Crossing Over by J. R. Moehringer of The Los Angeles Times A Pulitzer Prize Winner Closing the Session The Interview Story Zepp's Last Stand by Madeleine Blais of The Miami Herald A Pulitzer Prize Winner CHAPTER six Writing the Newspaper Feature Story Beginning the Process Story Structure Writing the Lead A Dozen Lead Categories Excerpt from Angels and Demons by Tom French of the St. Petersburg Times A Pulitzer Prize Winner Excerpt from How Super Are Our Supercarriers?R
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