Writing news features
After the struggles and justifications of interpretive journalism, working out the requirements for a news feature article seems to be easy. For many it is, for others the ease is a cruel deception. Too many reporters who are asked to expand their news reports into feature material consider it as...
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| author | Masterton, Murray. |
| author2 | Workshop on Editorial Management for Women Journalists : May 24-31, 1995, Singapore. |
| author_facet | Workshop on Editorial Management for Women Journalists : May 24-31, 1995, Singapore. Masterton, Murray. |
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| description | After the struggles and justifications of interpretive journalism, working out the
requirements for a news feature article seems to be easy. For many it is, for others the
ease is a cruel deception. Too many reporters who are asked to expand their news reports
into feature material consider it as just that, a simple, uncomplicated expansion. That is
not what a feature is, and that is why feature writing seems to be confined to a few
people on every staff. I would be surprised if the situation is different in Southeast Asia.
It shouldn't be a surprise to find that most reporters like most to report. They
thrive on the pressure of gathering and writing the elements of a report to a tight
deadline. Give them more time to gather more material for a backgrounding article and
they are lost. They either can't or won't do it, or they have to rethink the whole purpose
of their journalism. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/801772020-09-26T20:55:33Z Writing news features Masterton, Murray. Workshop on Editorial Management for Women Journalists : May 24-31, 1995, Singapore. DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::News reporting and writing DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Editing After the struggles and justifications of interpretive journalism, working out the requirements for a news feature article seems to be easy. For many it is, for others the ease is a cruel deception. Too many reporters who are asked to expand their news reports into feature material consider it as just that, a simple, uncomplicated expansion. That is not what a feature is, and that is why feature writing seems to be confined to a few people on every staff. I would be surprised if the situation is different in Southeast Asia. It shouldn't be a surprise to find that most reporters like most to report. They thrive on the pressure of gathering and writing the elements of a report to a tight deadline. Give them more time to gather more material for a backgrounding article and they are lost. They either can't or won't do it, or they have to rethink the whole purpose of their journalism. 2008-10-21T02:48:48Z 2019-12-06T13:42:08Z 2008-10-21T02:48:48Z 2019-12-06T13:42:08Z 1995 1995 Conference Paper Masterton, M. (1995). Writing news features. In Workshop on Editorial Management for Women Journalists: Singapore, May 24-31, 1995. Singapore: Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80177 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/1328 9 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::News reporting and writing DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Editing Masterton, Murray. Writing news features |
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| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::News reporting and writing DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism::Editing |
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