Best Newspaper Writing

by Tom Huang (Editor), Steve Myers (Editor)

Poynter′s renowned faculty―including Roy Peter Clark, Karen Dunlap, Tom French, Kenny Irby, Chip Scanlan, and Keith Woods―take your students "Behind the Story" with the book′s much heralded features. In-depth interviews with the winners let readers benefit from unique insight into how these reporters developed their stories into, in some cases, Pulitzer Prize–winning pieces. Ethical challenges are tackled, as are discussions of how to report and present news online."Sources Say" features offer students perspective on a piece from those at the heart of the story, while the ever-popular "X-Ray Readings" are back, dissecting articles to show students exactly how writers ply their craft, sentence by sentence.

504 pages, Paperback

First published September 12, 2008

Reviews

[Amanda]

I would like this SO MUCH MORE if it wasn't technically a textbook. But such is life.