Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines: The Pursuit of Excellence

Using experience-driven advice and compelling articles from scores of newspaper and magazine writers, Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines shows how award-winning journalists achieve excellence and national recognition. This book helps readers to cultivate vital journalistic skills with a thorough discussion about creating and refining article ideas, conducting research and interviews, writing, and navigating legal and ethical questions.

Using experience-driven advice and compelling articles from scores of newspaper and magazine writers, Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines shows how award-winning journalists achieve excellence and national recognition. This text helps students to cultivate vital journalistic skills with a thorough discussion about creating and refining article ideas, conducting research and interviews, writing, and navigating legal and ethical questions. Its many examples feature award-winning writers - including all 25 who have won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Feature Writing for Newspapers and Magazines' world-class writing examples, extensive updates and timely tips from some of America's best feature and magazine writers have made it the premier text in its field for almost two decades.

New to the 5th Edition:

• Adds new excerpts from five Pulitzer Prize-winning feature articles, promoting better writing by providing some of the best examples available.
• Explains web-based multimedia techniques in feature and magazine story writing to prepare students for converged newspapers and magazines that are becoming commonplace.
• Enhances the coverage of work by African-American Pulitzer Prize-winners, providing students with a diversity of writing examples.
• Expands coverage of Internet-assisted research in Chapter 4 to help students keep pace with 21st-century journalistic techniques.
• Replaces investigative magazine articles in Chapter 8 with more student-friendly computer game reviews.