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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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7Writing for digital publication – longform

  

Jane Bentley

My inbox pinged today with a link to an article from the novelist Margaret Atwood entitled It’s Not Climate Change, It’s Everything Change, an expansive essay1 which imagines a point in the future where we have no oil. In a second a simple click pushes me through to the website for the full article, where I see that 27 minutes is the stated reading time and that, to date, over 1,000 people have favourited it.

I settle in for the half-hour read and at the end am rewarded with more suggestions for similar pieces of ‘Cli-Fi’ – themed features on climate change – which the website has specially commissioned and collected.

I can bookmark, email and share the story via social media. I can ...

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ISBN: 9781317394198