This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate. As well as covering the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good feature writing, the book also offers a rich resource of real life examples, case studies and exercises. The authors have drawn on their considerable shared experience to provide a solid and engaging grounding in the principles and practice of feature writing. The textbook will explore the possibilities of feature writing, including essential basics, such as: Why journalists become feature writers The difference between news stories and features What features need to contain How to write features The different types of features The text is intended for both those who are studying the media at degree level and those who are wishing to embark on a career in the print industry. It will be invaluable for trainee feature writers.

Gene Roberts teaches in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He has had a long, distinguished career as reporter and editor, including serving as the managin editor of the New York Times and the executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. During his eighteen years at the Inquirer, the paper won seventeen Pulitzer Prizes. What has happened to the news? Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in newspaper coverage. Many newspaper executives, paring costs and badly misreading public appetites, have cut back dramatically on all types of public-affairs reporting. Fewer reporters than ever are assigned to the statehouse or the White House, to city hall or foreign capitals. Too often celebrity gossip and movie tips take the place of serious journalism instead of existing alongside it. Newspapers once operated under a mandate to provide the kinds of news that citizens need to function in a democratic society, but many corporations have changed that mandate. For more than two years, legendary editor Gene Roberts led a group of journalists in an unprecedented study of the newspaper industry for the American Journalism Review. This is the second volume of their findings. The first, Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Corporate Newspapering, documented the storm of buying, selling, and consolidation that is transforming the American press. This second volume explores the consequences of these changes for ordinary communities and for the nation, arguing that they place democracy itself in peril. Contributors include Peter Arnett, Mary Walton, Charles Layton, John Herbers, James McCartney, Carl Sessions Stepp, Lewis M. Simons, Chip Brown and Winnie Hu.

The American newspaper industry is in the middle of the most momentous change in its entire three-hundred-year history. A generation of relentless "corporatization" has resulted in a furious, unprecedented blitz of buying, selling, and consolidation of newspapers, accompanied by dramatic -- and drastic -- change in reporting and coverage of all kinds. Concerned that this phenomenon was going largely unreported, Gene Roberts, legendary reporter and editor, decided to undertake a huge, extended reportorial study of his own industry, what would become the Project on the State of the American Newspaper. Gathering more than two dozen distinguished journalists and writers, Roberts produced a long series of reports in the American Journalism Review, published by the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, asking the crucial question: Are American communities -- in the very middle of the so-called information explosion -- in danger of becoming less informed than ever?

Futurists have called newspapers the last of the great smokestack industries--decrepit, dated, and destined to die. Fresh Ink offers proof that this need not be true. Newspapers are still a mass medium, able to gather a set of facts and create a sense of community each day--if they will. Fresh Ink tells how Robert Decherd and Burl Osborne transformed a flawed paper with a checkered history into the leading newspaper in the southwest, winning seven Pulitzer Prizes along the way, one of them for graphics--the only newspaper to ever do so. The focus is on a week in the life of The Dallas Morning News, the death a month later of the competing Dallas Times Herald, and how the News has conducted itself since. By offering an inside look at what is arguably the most successful newspaper in the country, this book makes an important contribution to the history of journalism.

Futurists have called newspapers the last of the great smokestack industries--decrepit, dated, and destined to die. Fresh Ink offers proof that this need not be true. Newspapers are still a mass medium, able to gather a set of facts and create a sense of community each day--if they will. Fresh Ink tells how Robert Decherd and Burl Osborne transformed a flawed paper with a checkered history into the leading newspaper in the southwest, winning seven Pulitzer Prizes along the way, one of them for graphics--the only newspaper to ever do so. The focus is on a week in the life of The Dallas Morning News, the death a month later of the competing Dallas Times Herald, and how the News has conducted itself since. By offering an inside look at what is arguably the most successful newspaper in the country, this book makes an important contribution to the history of journalism.

This is the third, expanded and revised, edition of the modern Guardian style guide, used by journalists at the Guardian, the Observer and guardian.co.uk. Guardian Style will help you distinguish between so-called rules of grammar that are an aid to good writing and those that you can cheerfully ignore. It's also a mine of information, from the essential to the arcane, from the useful to the things that you never realised you needed to know. This new edition has been updated throughout to take in political change, the latest fads in cliches and the importance of online readers, with a section devoted to digital editing and blogging. Wise and witty, irreverent and informed, Guardian Style is an indispensable guide to the use of good English. 'The Guardian has been my desert island newspaper for 50 years, not always for what it has said, but just as often for the way it has said it.' David Hare

The papers collected in this volume thematise the relation between language and ecology. In the first part of the book, the focus is on the « ecological aspects of different languages, with special reference to language maintenance, language loss and the influence languages have on each other. In the second part, the representation of environmental topics in the media is studied from a discourse critical point of view. What is the role of language in the development of the ecological crisis and in the attempts to master it? How are environmentally sensitive topics dealt with in the press, in TV programmes and on the radio? The volume also contains papers in which the theory of ecolinguistics is put on firm ground. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes befassen sich mit der Verbindung von Sprache und Okologie. Im ersten Teil wird auf die « okologischen Beziehungen zwischen einzelnen Sprachen eingegangen, bei denen Prozesse der Verdrangung, Mischung und gegenseitigen Beeinflussung ablaufen. Im zweiten Teil wird die Darstellung von Umwelt-Themen in den Medien diskurskritisch beleuchtet. Wie wird mit diesen Themen in der Presse, in Radio- und Fernsehprogrammen umgegangen? Welche Rolle spielt die Sprache ganz allgemein bei der Entstehung und Bewaltigung okologischer Krisen? Der Band enthalt auch programmatische Aufsatze, in denen das Paradigma der Okolinguistik theoretisch begrundet wird. Contents/Aus dem Inhalt: Alwin Fill: Tensional Arches: Language and Ecology. Im Spannungsfeld von Sprache und Okologie -- Peter Finke: Die Nachhaltigkeit der Sprache - Funf ineinander verschachtelte Puppen der linguistischen Okonomie -- Ludwig Fischer: The Conservation of Conversation beyond English --Albert Bastardas-Boada: The Ecological Perspective: Benefits and Risks for Sociolinguistics and Language Policy and Planning -- Wilhelm Trampe: Okologische Linguistik und HumanOkologie -- Karin Wullenweber: Zur Okolinguistik in der Slawistik und den okologischen Diskursen in Russland und Bulgarien -- Jeroen Darquennes/Peter Nelde: Okolinguistik und Minderheitsforschung - Uberlegungen zu einem okolinguistischen Forschungsansatz -- Rosemarie Glaser: Australische Aborigine-Sprachen im Lichte der SprachOkologie -- Rodica Cristina Turcanu: Rezeption und Rezession der rumanisch-deutsch-ungarischen Sprachkontaktelemente in Baia Mare/Rumanien -- Marietta Calderon: Frankophonie in Israel: Ideologisch-identitare Diskurs-(ordnungs)konstruktionen und ihre Wechselwirkungen -- Eva Lavric: Zur Rolle der Muttersprache im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Eine empirische Untersuchung -- Adam Makkai: The Role of the Human Voice in the Eco-Semantics of Human Interaction -- Richard Alexander: Everyone is Talking about 'Sustainable Development'. Can they all Mean the Same Thing? Computer Discourse Analysis of Ecological Texts -- Martin Doring: « Vereint hinterm Deich - Die metaphorische Konstruktion der Wiedervereinigung in der deutschen Presseberichterstattung zur Oderflut 1997 -- Adelaide Chichorro Ferreira: Beitrag zu einem « Hausspracheworterbuch Deutsch-Portugiesisch -- Dieter D. Genske/Ernest W.B. Hess-Luttich: Gesprache ubers Wasser - Ein okosemiotisches Projekt zur Umweltkommunikation im Nord-Sud-Dialog -- Andrea Gerbig: Reprasentation 'gruner' Wirtschaftpolitik in der britischen und deutschen Presse -- Georg Marko: Whales and Language - Critically Analysing Whale-Friendly Discourse -- GernotNeuwirth: Eco-Linguistics - Going Beyond the Text -- Hermine Penz: « Gentechnik ganz einfach erklart - Gentechnikdiskurs in der Talkshow -- Gesine Lenore Schiewer: Sind gesellschaftliche Diskurse uber Technikfolgen rational? Kooperative Verstandigung in kommunikationstheoretischer Perspektive -- Jorgen Door/Jorgen Chr. Bang: Ecology, Ethics and Communication - An Essay in Eco-linguistics -- Jeppe Bundsgaard/Sune Steffensen: The Dialectics of Ecological Morphology -- Anna Vibeke Lindo/Simon S. Simonsen: An Ecolinguistic Reading of a Scientific Text on Psychoneuroimmunology -- Marietta Calderon: Metadiskursive Uberlegungen zu intradisziplinar-interkulturellen Herausforderungen im Hinblick auf ihre mogliche Relevanz fur sprachokologisches Arbeiten -- Orsoly Koskai: Okolinguistik jenseits der Eindimensionalitat -- Harald Nilsen: Learning Norwegian as a Second Language (NSL) through E-mail Correspondence between Russian Immigrants and Natives of Norway - A Critical Investigation -- Manoel Soares Sarmento: Ecoloxicography - Ecological and Unecological Words and Expressions.

Im Mittelpunkt der strukturgeschichtlichen Untersuchung steht die Frage nach dem Einfluss des Ministeriums fur Staatssicherheit auf Befehl der SED-Partei- und Staatsfuhrung auf die DDR-Zeitungen am Beispiel der drei ehemaligen Bezirksparteizeitungen. Alle Medien, insbesondere die SED-Bezirksparteizeitungen, leisteten ihren Beitrag bis zum Ende der DDR, das politische System zu stabilisieren und gegenuber der Bevolkerung zu legitimieren. Journalisten im Staats- und Parteidienst betatigten sich als Propagandisten und Agitatoren gleichermassen. Die Studie verdeutlicht erstmals das politisch-ideologische Beziehungsgeflecht im totalitaren DDR-System, ohne das Medien-SED-MfS-Syndrom in viele Einzelgeschichten von kurzlebiger Aktualitat aufzusplittern. (Franz Steiner 1997)

The Encyclopedia of the British Press is a long awaited reference book, invaluable for journalists, historians and anyone interested in the history of newspapers. It contains biographies of editors, journalists, press magnates and other people with a formative influence on the British Press since 1422. Together they form a rich archive with entries covering a wide range of people: famous newspaper dynasties such as the Aitkens, Berrys and Harmsworths; newspaper giants, such as Caxton, and Daniel Defoe, regarded by many as the "father of English journalism"; and at the other end of the spectrum low-life characters such as the nineteenth century editor, Charles Westmacott, who used his paper as a vehicle for blackmail, and Henry Bate, known as the 'fighting parson' for the duels he fought whilst editor of the Morning Post. Entries on newspapers include all the present nationals and regionals, as well as many historical papers, such as the Pall Mall Gazette, North Briton, Daily Courant, Charles Dickens' Household Words and The Review, launched in 1713, which was the first paper to offer opinion on political affairs - the forerunner of modern editorials. The encyclopedia opens with a series of six definitive essays charting the long and chequered career of the British Press from 1476 when William Caxton set up the first press in Westminster, and his apprentice Wynkyn de Worde started the first printing business in Fleet Street. It follows the changing patterns of newspapers from the seventeenth century - when many were opposed to newspapers on the grounds that "it makes the Multitude too familiar with the actions and Counsels of their superiors" (Sir Roger L'Estrange 1663), - to the suddengrowth of the provincial press in the eighteenth century, changes in distribution in the nineteenth century, abolition of the stamp tax, and finally the revolutionary changes of the twentieth century which included the unprecedented leap in circulation after the First World War, the concentration of papers in the hands of a few press barons in the thirties, wartime privations, growth of free newspapers, and finally the advent of new technology in the 1980s and the bitter labour disputes that ensued. In addition the encyclopedia contains a detailed chronology, numerous appendices, lists of editors of each newspaper, and finally an exhaustive bibliography arranged by subject. In 1881 Charles Pebody wrote "It ought to be one of the most interesting works upon our library shelves ... never was an institution better deserved to have its history written than the Newspaper Press". Over a century later this ground-breaking encyclopedia is published specifically to redress the balance.

This book reflects the vigorous interest in studies of business discourse(s) and culture(s) emerging from various Asian communities. It also records the diversity of methodological approaches, ontological perspectives and topics characterising a number of studies conducted by Asian and Western scholars on cultural and linguistic strategies and preferences identifiable in Asian or Asian-Western business interactions. The volume is structured in two parts, including chapters that address linguistic and textual issues (Part I) and cultural and pragmatic issues (Part II) of Asian business discourse(s). Even though the different domains identified--"linguistic, textual, pragmatic and cultural--"have been combined to provide useful organising labels, they remain strictly interrelated as their occurrence and variation have significant implications on one another.

Junior High Journalism, the leading junior high journalism textbook on the market, is used in classrooms throughout the country. It can be used for a complete course, a semester or six-week unit, or as a part of the English program. Every aspect of journalism is presented appropriately for the junior high age group. Relevant examples from current junior high publications from around the country are included. The Student's Workbook and Teacher's Workbook provide detailed review and activities that complement each chapter.