UOW Journalism: Introduction to News Writing

Theories & Links

News Writing Tips...a good summary of basics from The Northern Star

Writing Tools: The “Whoa!” Factor...Taking the time to find the “whoa!” in the story helps generate an enthusiasm that carries over into the actual writing process. Abe Rosenberg offers a good technique but use with caution!

Basic News Writing...Bill Parks offers another good round-up of the basics

Resources

The readings for each section of the course are outlined in the bibliography in the course outline.

This section provide additional links to key internet resources in a range of areas.

General Resources

The Poynter and Pew Institutes also have detailed and comprehensive articles on all aspects of journalism including news writing and editing.

Annenberg Media Channel News Writing Series

A fantatsic 15 part free video-on-demand series on news and news writing. More than 100 journalists working in print, radio, and television reveal the secrets of their trade. Among those offering insights are Bob Woodward, Helen Thomas, Dave Barry, and Linda Ellerbee.

Beginning Reporting

Jim Hall's site is divided into three main sections and 17 subsections. The main sections reflect the principal jobs of the journalist: reporting, writing and rewriting.Hall believes, a good reporter is like a pinball in play, always gathering, writing, revising, gathering, writing, revising—until time runs out. The job is as simple, and as hard, as that.

Poynter NewsU

Over 20 detailed interactive courses in all aspects of journalism and editing practice.

JProf

A great site from journalism educator and author James Glen Stovall: a web site for those interested in journalism, especially teachers and students. This site contains many resources that will help those who want to learn about journalism.

 

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