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Writing for Newspapers
Freelance Writing for Newspapers deals with the importance of marketing and knowing your readers, first contact with editors, how to write regular columns and features, reviewing, interviewing and meeting deadlines - and how to acquire an inexhaustible flow of ideas. There is information on the essential business of writing including rights (and wrongs), tax, plagiarism, keeping records, rates of pay (and how to get paid), syndication, the power of the press, official organizations to help you, and more. Detailed chapters cover style, research, making the Internet work for you and the rewards of rewriting.
The Freelance Writer's Handbook - subtitle - How to Make Money and Enjoy your Life. Now in a fully updated third edition, this is the essential book for everyone who dreams of making money from their writing. It will appeal to all aspiring writers, whether they want to write as a full time profession, or simply to supplement their existing income through writing. This inspiring guide will also benefit professional writers and journalists who want ideas on how to find new markets for their work.
The Elements of Journalism sets out the fundamental questions that all journalists face as they compile
their stories. Is journalism's first obligation the truth? How should
journalists exercise their personal conscience? Must its practitioners maintain
their independence from those they cover? This is looking at the basic principles of journalism, rather than 'how to do it' or how to get published.
Print Journalism is a collection of essays by former journalists all now teaching in universities. They cover all aspects of newspapers, magazines, and journals: who owns them; how they work; and how to write for them. Would-be journalists are given a detailed breakdown of news features, and more importantly how to successfully pitch your ideas to editors, then how to write them if and when they are accepted. Also included is a detailed look at reporting, how news is gathered, the role of editors, and how to make your own writing as a freelancer more likely to be successful. This covers its subject from A to Z.
Essential English for Journalists, Editors, and Writers by former Sunday Times editor Harold Evans is an excellent guide to improving the efficiency of your writing by what he calls 'a process of editorial selection, text editing, and presentation'. He describes the various responsibilities for writing in the newsroom, but then settles down to his main subject - the crafting of good prose - where he is quite clearly at home. There's plenty of good advice on sentence construction, editing for clarity, choice of vocabulary, avoiding obscurity and abstraction, plus eliminating vagueness and cliche. It's a book packed with practical examples, written by a very experienced professional.
How to Write Articles for Newspapers
and Magazines contains ten chapters dealing with getting started (generating ideas & focusing on the subject), gathering
information (fact vs. opinion, observation, interview), writing the
effective article lead, and a sample query letter when suggesting an article to a publisher. This little book really is focused on how to get published.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to
Publishing Magazine Articles offers advice to aspiring journalists on how to write effective feature articles, and explains how to sell the articles to newspapers, magazines, and
trade publications. Suitable for beginners, it explains how to survive as a freelance writer.
Writing Feature Articles: A Practical
Guide to Methods and Markets shows how to write articles for a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, and
examines the different techniques required. It analyses a variety of published
articles to show what makes them succeed for their audiences. The book provides
information on: formulating and developing ideas; studying the markets and
shaping ideas to fit them; and researching then organizing your material.
Publish your Writing
Stylewriter is a software program which offers help with writing skills such as summarising, editing, and proof-reading your work. It also offers a selection of writing styles to choose from - academic writing, journalism, formal prose, and so on. Mistakes and suggestions for improvement are highlighted and made with a single click.
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