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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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6Writing for digital publication – shortform

  

Tim Holmes

‘Writing for the website has fundamentally changed how I write in print’

Ta-Nehisi Coates

With the excellent advice contained in the rest of this book, why have two chapters devoted specially to writing for digital publication? Well-written journalism is well-written journalism wherever it appears and what is considered good in print will also be considered good when paper is replaced by the screen of a computer, a tablet, a mobile or even a smart watch.

This is true, but only if you think of digitally published content as a direct analogue of what appears in print: a news story lifted straight from the original word-processing file and pasted into a content-management system; a feature ...

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ISBN: 9781317394198