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Writing for Journalists, 3rd Edition
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Writing for Journalists, 3rd Edition

by Wynford Hicks, Adams Sally, Harriett Gilbert, Tim Holmes, Jane Bentley
April 2016
Beginner content levelBeginner
200 pages
5h 43m
English
Routledge
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3Writing features

Sally Adams

The joy of feature writing lies in its variety. Anything from a celebrity interview to an agony column, a product round-up to an obit, can be called a feature. But because they are so varied features are hard to define. The safest guide is negative: they’re not news.

Not being news, they’re liberated from spare, functional prose. In place of the breathless messenger they can be entertaining gossips, perceptive analysts, eccentric experts, sympathetic counsellors, bitchy snoops, inspiring guides.

Because they’re so varied they’re harder to write. They build on what’s learnt as a news reporter and also demand that writers attract and hold the reader’s attention without the advantage of a simple pattern to follow. ...

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ISBN: 9781317394198