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Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and others) get information. Yet to many, the perfect interview feels more like luck than skill- a rare confluence of rapport, topic, and timing. But the thing is, great interviews aren't the result of serendipity and intuition, but rather the result of careful planning and good journalistic habits. Drawn on forty years of award-winning journalism, Dean Nelson walks readers through each step...
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Pick up the Sunday paper and consider how many stories it takes to fill all those pages. How can any newspaper staff produce so many stories every day, every week, every month of the year and keep up with breaking news, too? They can't. They use freelancers.
This book serves as a guide to newspaper freelancing both for beginners and for more experienced writers who want to expand their markets.
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There is a famous 11th century collection of stories, folktales, legends and histories written in Sanskrit, by the Shaivite Somadeva, called the "Kathasaritsagara" or the "Oceans of the Streams of Stories". There are multiple layers of story, within a story in this amazing collection of stories. The "Kathasaritsagara", is a large collection of stories loosely strung together. The stories are narrated for the recreation and the information of the same...
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I want to be a pagan author and write for the pagan community... can you tell me how to get published? Writing for the pagan community is no different from writing for any other readership — but we need to learn the basic rules before deciding whether we have any talent worth pursuing. Regardless of our own personal levels of esoteric learning, we need to go back to the basics of creative writing and see what tricks of the trade we can utilise....
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There once was a magical place called WriterL where hundreds of journalists, freelancers, editors and educators from around the world gathered to share their thoughts and insights about the craft of Literary Journalism. It was the kind of place that an article in The New York Times referred to as "the Paris of the 1920s" for nonfiction writers. But this place existed only on the internet, a site founded in 1994 and hosted by two-time Pulitzer Prize...
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Which would you rather be: the writer paid £200 for an article or the writer/photographer paid £600 for an illustrated article? Practically every magazine uses photographs, so why not make the editor's life easier and supply them with your words? Become an editor's dream supplier by sending them a complete words-and-picture package. Some magazines will only use writers who can supply the photos, so taking photos might open up new markets to you....
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Here it is, in one box set: the two books every article writer needs to sell a complete words-and-picture package to a magazine editor.
The Complete Article Writer shows you how to come up with the right idea for the right market, time and time again. Don't write one article - write six or more! It explores how to analyse a publication to identify its readership and the freelancing opportunities within it. Then it guides you into twisting your idea...
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The third book in the Mistakes Writers Make series takes the reader to the next level on the non-fiction writing journey, building on your early successes by equipping you with the skills, approach and attitude you need to make a living freelance writing for the internet, magazines and newspapers.
It covers article ideas, negotiating with editors, interviewing skills, financial issues, words and punctuation, even psychological wellbeing-and much...
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What does storytelling-narrative-have to do with reporting-nonfiction? Everything.
In 1965, Capote published In Cold Blood, an account of a series of ghastly murders in the late '50s. His book became a bestseller, marked by factual accuracy shared through the transporting power of fictional prose. He called it a "nonfiction novel," and some have called it a literary experiment that "opened the way for a new kind of literature." See it as a writer's...
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Écrire des articles est une technique, un métier.
Principal ou d'appoint, il ne s'improvise pas. Mais il peut s’apprendre!... L'auteur, lui-même journaliste, a rassemblé ici l'essentiel de son expérience professionnelle :
- Sur quoi écrire? le média, son public.
- Quoi écrire? l'information-événement.
- Avec quoi? les sources à consulter.
- Comment? les genres : reportage, interview, portrait, brève...
- Avec quel plan? la pyramide...
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How to write my memoir? If you've ever asked this question, The Best Memoir will help you write the story only you can tell.
Clear, direct, instructive, well-written, and engaging, this simple, succinct memoir guide will help you find your purpose
and structure your experiences, improve your writing skills, and steer you away from the mistakes that will keep you
from reaching your goal of a completed, publishable manuscript.
To write the best memoir,...
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Crónicas centroamericanas
Esta serie de crónicas escritas por el periodista salvadoreño Carlos Dada no son solo una selección del mejor periodismo que se ha hecho en español en la última década y que el autor viene desarrollando desde mucho antes. Son además un recorrido por una región, Centroamérica, a menudo olvidada y tan necesaria para entender todos los males y retos que encara cualquier sociedad. Son historias que cuentan países...
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Do you want to learn how to write articles for newspapers, essays for magazines, and non-fiction for websites? Have you been trying for some time without success? Could it be your mistakes which are holding you back?
In this, the first book in the 'Mistakes Writers Make' series, writing tutor and author Alex Gazzola takes you through 50 of the key errors new and aspiring writers may be making-and guides you towards putting them right.
All the fundamentals...
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This book will help you to avoid 95 percent of your typos and grammatical mistakes.
Tired of typos? I am too. I have found an easy way to help you to get rid of typos.
Who Needs This Book?
• Students
• Bloggers
• Freelance Writers
• Reporters
• Content Writers
• Producers
• Screenwriters
• Editors
• Graphic Designers
• Influencers
• Communications Departments
• Marketers
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• Copy...
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The follow-up to "50 Mistakes Beginner Writers Make" takes the aspiring writer of articles and other non-fiction forward to the next level.
Book 1 in the Mistakes Writers Make series gave the reader a good grounding in the theory of writing for magazines and newspapers, and introduced the basics-generating ideas, approaching editors, researching markets, crafting articles, revising work and much more.
This second book in the series elaborates on...
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Julio Camba no creía en la inspiración, ni en las facultades de Periodismo, ni el poder evocador de la naturaleza
Sabía que la columna de periódico es la medida de todas las cosas, y que todo lo que sucede en el mundo es susceptible de «acabar reducido a una superficie literaria de 150 centímetros cuadrados». Y a eso se dedicó el autodidacta Camba durante toda su vida, desde las páginas del anarquista Tierra y Libertad al regio y conservador...
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With traffic to personal blogs and online journalism sites on the rise, there are more blogging opportunities than ever before. With the right approach, a blog can be an extra source of cash, or it can be a business unto itself yielding thousands of dollars a week, all earned on your own schedule, from the comfort of your home office, and writing about the topic of your choice. If that sounds too good to be true, this invaluable book will prove to...
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Working as a correspondent for 20/20 and Good Morning America, John Stossel confronted dozens of scam artists: from hacks who worked out of their basements to some of America's most powerful executives and leading politicians. His efforts shut down countless crooks -- both famous and obscure. Then he realized what the real problem was.
In Give Me a Break, Stossel takes on the regulators, lawyers, and politicians who thrive on our hysteria about risk...
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