Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive
field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting,
digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature
stories within journalism 2.0. With on-the-job advice
from professional journalists, activities to sharpen
your multimedia reporting skills, and dozens of story
ideas ripe for adaptation, Dan Reimold helps you develop
the journalistic know-how that will set you apart at
your campus media outlet and beyond. The exercises,
observations, anecdotes, and tips in this book cover
every stage of the story planning and development
process, including how news judgment, multimedia
engagement, records and archival searches, and various
observational techniques can take your reporting to the
next level. Separate advice focuses on the storytelling
methods involved in data journalism, photojournalism,
crime reporting, investigative journalism, and
commentary writing. In addition to these tricks of the
trade, Journalism of Ideas features an extensive
set of newsworthy, timely, and unorthodox story ideas to
jumpstart your creativity. The conversation continues on
the author’s blog, College Media Matters. Reimold
also shows students how to successfully launch a career
in journalism: the ins and outs of pitching stories,
getting your work published, and navigating the
post-graduation job search. Related sections of the book
highlight the art of freelancing 2.0, starting an
independent site, blogging, constructing quality online
portfolios, securing internships, and building a social
media following.
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