Writing Feature Stories: How to Research and Write Newspaper and Magazine Articles

by Matthew Ricketson

A systematic and user-friendly approach to journalistic feature story writing for journalism students, professionals, freelancers, and beginners is provided in this guide. Writers will learn to move beyond conventional news stories and embrace their creativity to create compelling features. Generating fresh ideas, gathering factual information, sifting through raw material, choosing the best angle, and working with editors are all explored. Discussion questions and exercises reinforce the ideas presented in each chapter. Pop culture examples and recently published articles are used to make concepts memorable and easily accessible.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, Journalism

304 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2004

Reviews

[Teri Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

A terrific textbook that I use often in conjunction with my master of media and comms studies.

[Puck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly informative, practical and to the point. Written in a textbook style. Explanation of concepts is supported by several examples. Provides exercises to practice what they’re preaching. Very helpful for any aspiring journalists and/or journalism students.

[لمياء · Rating 5 out of 5]

I picked this book to read and improve my personal writing in for my work, great reading and good references.
I highlighted so much of it and took notes i’ll get back to it.

[Olwen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent textbook for freelance feature writers.

[Jay · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book seems like the more modern version of Blundell’s “The Art and Craft of Feature Writing” with a bit of an Australian twist.

I particularly enjoyed the examples of feature stories that backed up the chapters.