Thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the craft of journalistic writing, offering invaluable insight on how to hook readers and keep them to the end of your article.
The book offers a systematic approach to news and feature writing that starts with the basics and builds to more complex and longer pieces. The authors give the reader the tools they need to deliver engaging and authoritative writing that works across print and digital. Drawing on professional insight from writers across the industry, the book guides readers through the essential elements needed to write powerful and effective news stories, from hard news pieces to features on business, science, travel and entertainment reviews. New to this edition are hands-on writing exercises accompanying each chapter to help reinforce key points; chapters on how to build a professional profile, pitch stories and get commissioned; and a section on online writing, SEO, analytics and writing for social media.
This is an essential guide for all journalism students and early-career journalists. It also has much to offer established journalists looking to develop their writing and lead editorial teams.
Thoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the craft of journalistic writing, offering invaluable insight on how to hook readers and keep them to the end of your article.
1. How to read like a journalist
How purposeful reading can develop your journalistic instinct and sharpen
your writing
2. The news intro
Understand news values and learn how to construct a compelling opening
paragraph
3. The first three paragraphs
A fail-safe formula to write the opening three paragraphs to any news story
4. News structure and style
How to structure longer news pieces and deal with more complex stories in
style
5. Writing for the web
How to write for online; understand analytics and SEO and make social media
work for you
Gavin Allen
6. Developing feature ideas
Understand your readers and learn how to develop news-driven feature ideas
they will want to read
7. Starting your feature
Why Showing, Telling and Quoting are a writers building blocks and the key
to dynamic intros
8. Structure and quotes
How to use quotes and understand the three interviewee types essential to
your writing
9. Storytelling and travel writing
Discover what storytelling does to your brain and how to use that in any
piece of writing
10. Interview features
Professional writers explain how to research, structure and write the perfect
interview
11. Writing reviews
How to write reviews on anything from literature and the arts to bicycles and
fast cars
Harriett Gilbert
12. Making complex ideas accessible
Business and science journalists explain how to make complex stories
accessible to all
Matt Swaine, Aiden O'Donnell and Nigel Stephenson
13. Boxouts, design and multimedia
How to write boxouts and plan multimedia content to deliver strong feature
packages
14. The professional writer
Build your professional profile, hit deadlines, edit your work and develop a
unique voice
Glossary
Key terms you may come across in the world of journalism
Recommended reading
Books on journalism, politics, business, science and the environment and
Twitter lists to follow
Suggested answers
Appendix with answers to exercises in chapters 2, 3 and 5
Index
Matt Swaine is the Course Director for the MA in International Journalism at Cardiff University, where he teaches multimedia news and long-form feature writing. As a journalist he edited BBC Wildlife and Trail magazines and launched websites and magazines such as Trail Running and Outdoor Fitness. He spent two years as Lonely Planets Editorial and Product Development Director, and has written for titles as diverse as Mother and Baby, Sunday Times Travel, Guitarist, The Telegraph and Cycling Plus. @MattSwaine
Harriett Gilbert is a broadcaster, journalist and novelist. She was literary editor of the New Statesman and has reviewed the arts for, among others, Time Out, the Listener, the Independent and the BBC. She presents A Good Read on BBC Radio 4 and World Book Club on BBC World Service Radio. She was for many years a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism at City University London. @HarriettSG
Gavin Allen is a Digital Journalism Lecturer at Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture. He has been a journalist for 20 years, latterly as Associate Editor of Mirror.co.uk, having previously worked at MailOnline, MSN and WalesOnline. @Gavinallen
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