The Journalist's Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories - Softcover

 
9781581152227: The Journalist's Craft: A Guide to Writing Better Stories

Synopsis

This inspiring collection of 19 essays from veteran news writers explains how to weave storytelling skills into nonfiction narratives. Journalists of all backgrounds and levels of experience will discover dozens of exercises that have been tested successfully in newsrooms, workshops, and classrooms, and will cover everything from the fundamentals of reporting, writing and revising to more specialized elements like creating rhythm, cadence, and voice; employing dialogue and scene-building; and such devices as foreshadowing, symbols, and metaphors. Contributors are all veteran journalists, including Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, and several Pulitzer Prize-winners.

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About the Author

Dennis Jackson is Director of Journalism and Professor of English at the University of Delaware John Sweeney is the Public Editor for The News Journal in Wilmington, Delaware.

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