Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Shaun Carney, a political columinst from The Age is coming to speak to you about his experiences as a feature writer. In preparation, Shaun has asked that I give you an article ‘Tea party Lights for rebellion on Right’ an article from The New York Times to read. I have also set two of Shaun’s [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
What is your story idea? How you might go about researching your story Who you plan to interview Issues you might have in developing your story
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
This week, “Death by Buffet” from ‘Lost in Transmission’, a book by Australian journalist Jonathon Harley. I want you to consider the ways in which Harley may have used observation to extend the narrative of this piece. It is also an example of a piece of long-form writing with first person narrative. When is it [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Yep, there’s a holiday on Monday–but that doesn’t mean the pace slackens! You’ve got some really interesting, different feature stories to reda this week. Given that you are startign to learn what feature writing is about, I want you to take notice of the writign style and approach of the articles. One is based on [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
You should all be busy writing up your short news story. When you have time to take a break, I would like you to consider a chapter of Barbara Ehrenreich’s book: “Nicket and Dimed: On (not) getting by in America.” I have purposely chosen this text because of the similarity of the theme with an article we [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
You have a collection of soft and hard news stories to read over the break. After reading the stories, I want you to consider: 1. What are both the limitiations and advantages of the hard and soft news writing styles? 2. How might the medium you are using effect whether you use the soft or hard [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
This week we are focussing on your news writing skills in preparation for your first assignment. Readings will be back next week! Tonight you will be given a press release– you need to write a five-six paragraph news story from the information given. You need to figure out what the news is–what is most impactful [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
As promised, the name of the Windows database-making program is called ACCESS…with apologies to the person in class who named it correctly. You can strat a contact list on this program quite effectively. The other piece of information that I promised was a confirmation of the time-limit on defamationa action. There was a change made [...]
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
The exercise for this week is to come up with three possible story ideas for your assessment. You will present those stories to class next week. Let us know where the story ideas came from and two potential interviewees. Have fun with this! Search widely and think about ideas that will actually interest you!
Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:16
Hopefully you all have your blogs up and running by now. This week we are going to look at two pieces of investigative journalism. The first piece is by an American freelance feature write named Paige Williams. Her story sought to use statistical information to paint a picture of poverty in Georgia, USA. The second [...]
