Featurewriting.net - Softcover

Smith, Michael Ray

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974831921 ISBN 13: 9780974831923

Publisher: Epistelogic, 2005

Synopsis

wral.com/lifestyles/travel/video/9430091/#/vid9430091smith@featurewriting.net      Writer. Professor. Speaker.
     Michael Ray Smith is leading the new media charge at Campbell University with his work with online and multimedia using the Web. World Journalism Institute, Manhattan, named him the John McCandlish Phillips Scholar for 2011. Philips was the internationally-known reporter for The New York Times in the 1960s. The New Yorker has called McCandlish Phillips "legendary," "brilliant," and "more interested in the truth and texture of a story than in scoring a scoop."   His "FeatureWriting.Net" is used by colleges across the nation as  multimedia guide.
    

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From the Author:

     Writer. Professor. Speaker.
     Michael Ray Smith is leading the new media charge at Campbell University with his work with online and multimedia using the Web. World Journalism Institute, Manhattan, named him the John McCandlish Phillips Scholar for 2011. Philips was the internationally-known reporter for The New York Times in the 1960s. The New Yorker has called McCandlish Phillips "legendary," "brilliant," and "more interested in the truth and texture of a story than in scoring a scoop."  
     Smith earned a Ph.D. from Regent University and taught at state and private universities, at graduate and undergraduate schools and is a professor of communication studies at Campbell University.
An award-winning journalist and photographer, he has been quoted in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, The Arizona Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Louisville Courier-Journal, Editor & Publisher, Christianity Today, Writer's Digest and many other periodicals. He has been a guest on radio and TV including French TV 24, a Paris-based television broadcast, and online sites such as Ourblook.com.
     He has written five books, 12 journal articles and hundreds of articles for the popular press. eHis chapter on "Labels in Media Bias" is part of the 2007 book, Media Bias, Finding It, Fixing It
FeatureWriting.Net explores popular writing and The Jesus Newspaper explores the idea of the Christian journalist. His A Free Press in Freehand: The Spirit of American Blogging in the Handwritten Newspapers of John McLean Harrington 1858-1869 was released in 2011.
Michael spent a decade working in the newsroom and more than two decades working in the classroom.
     In 2008 Shippensburg University, his graduate school, honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus of the Year, the highest award presented by the university. That same year Prince George's Community College in suburban Washington, D.C., recognized him as one of its top 50 graduates.
     He has presented workshops on writing in the United States and overseas including a weeklong seminar on magazine writing for Magazine Training International. He works with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication on issues of equity and disability. 

From the Back Cover:

"Packed with solid advice, interesting examples and useful exercises. Particularly valuable is the huge list of story ideas . . . sure to spark an idea in any creative mind," Doug Trouten, journalism professor, Northwestern College, and director of a 400-magazine association.

About this edition

• Publisher: Epistelogic
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0974831921
• ISBN 13: 9780974831923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328