Writing for Journalists

by Wynford Hicks

The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.

Written by skilled specialist contributors and drawing on a broad range of examples to illustrate the best professional practice, this edition includes:

chapters on how to write news, features and reviews whatever the format used for delivery
expanded chapters on writing for digital publication in both shortform and longform
top tips on writing columns and blogs from leading professionals
an exploration of the importance of style and its impact on great journalistic writing
an extensive glossary of terms used in journalism and suggestions for further reading

This is an essential guide to good writing for all practising journalists and students of journalism.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Journalism

212 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 1999

Reviews

[Khanh Nguyen]

useful tricks and vivid examples, various references for reading, highly recommended, personally i like the chapter of Styles

[NEWMARKJRESEARCH]

This book is available as an ebook:

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[Bec]

Again, could do with an update (although there is a separate section for online), but on the whole rather useful.