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Writing Feature Articles

Print, Digital and Online 5th Edition

By: Mary Hogarth

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Paperback | 4 April 2019 | Edition Number 5

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316 Pages

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23.3 x 15.6 x 2.1

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Writing Feature Articles presents clear and engaging advice for students and young professionals on working as a freelance feature writer. This fifth edition not only covers producing content for print, but also for digital platforms and online.

Mary Hogarth offers comprehensive guidance on every aspect of feature writing, from having the initial idea and conducting market and subject research, to choosing the right target audience and publishing platform and successfully pitching the article. In addition, the book instructs students on developing their own journalistic style and effectively structuring their feature. Each chapter then concludes with an action plan to help students put what they have read into practice.

Topics include:

Life as a freelance

Building a professional profile

Telling a story with images

Developing a specialism

Interviewing skills

Profile and interview articles

Working in publicity and advertising

A career in magazines and newspapers

Getting published overseas

Understanding issues in media law and regulation

The book also provides an extensive range of interviews with successful media professionals, including a newspaper editor, a money, health and lifestyle journalist, a copywriter and an award-winning columnist, where they share their own experiences of working in the industry and offer invaluable tips on best practice.

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A rich resource, full of gold-plated advice for any budding feature writer. It covers everything you need to know - getting ideas, finding the right audience, pitching, researching and structuring an article and is packed with anecdotes and case studies from successful working journalists. Invaluable not just for would-be feature writers but experienced freelancers.

Dr Barbara Rowlands, Associate Professor of Journalism and Hon Research Fellow, City, University of London

This a welcome and timely update of Brendan Hennessy's classic Writing Feature Articles. Offering useful examples, insightful interviews and helpful calls to action it is for anyone who aspires to be a journalist in our fast-moving digital age.

Journalism educator Catherine Darby, creator and leader of the UK's multi-award-winning first MA in Magazine Journalism, launched at the University of Central Lancashire in 2004.

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