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Media Skills

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The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish.

Written by skilled specialist contributors and drawing on a broad range of examples to illustrate the best professional practice, this edition includes:
  • chapters on how to write news, features and reviews whatever the format used for delivery
  • expanded chapters on writing for digital publication in both shortform and longform
  • top tips on writing columns and blogs from leading professionals
  • an exploration of the importance of style and its impact on great journalistic writing
  • an extensive glossary of terms used in journalism and suggestions for further reading


This is an essential guide to good writing for all practising journalists and students of journalism.

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The new edition of Subediting and Production for Journalists is a concise, clear and contemporary introduction to the skills required for subediting newspapers, magazines and websites. Tim Holmes describes how subediting has developed, from the early days of print to the modern era of the internet browser and social media, and explores the many challenges for the sub working today.

Using numerous practical examples drawn from print and online, Subediting and Production for Journalists introduces the various techniques employed by the sub to help make the written word stand out on the page, including:

  • subbing news and features for sense and style
  • writing headlines and sells
  • making copy legally safe
  • understanding production, using software packages and content management systems
  • editing and rewriting stories for online publication
  • creating suitable page furniture for websites
  • handling and sizing pictures digitally
  • handling audio and video.

Subediting and Production for Journalists is the perfect guide for all those with an interest in subbing in today's multimedia environments, as well as anyone wanting to see their words come to life.

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Interviewing for Journalists details the central journalistic skill of how to ask the right question in the right way. It is a practical and concise guide for all print and online journalists - professionals, students and trainees - whether writing news stories or features for newspapers and magazines, print and web.

Interviewing for Journalists focuses on the many types of interviewing, from the routine street interview, vox pop and press conference to the interview used as the basis of an in-depth profile. Drawing on previously published material and featuring interviews with successful columnists such as Emma Brockes, who writes for the Guardian and the New York Times and Andrew Duncan of Radio Times. Interviewing for Journalists covers every stage of interviews including research, planning and preparation, structuring questions, the importance of body language, how to get a vivid quote, checking material and editing it into different formats.

Interviewing for Journalists includes:
  • a discussion about the significance and importance of the interview for journalism
  • advice on how to handle face-to-face interviewees with politicians, celebrities and vulnerable people
  • advice on dealing with PRs
  • how to carry out the telephone and online interview
  • tips on note-taking and recording methods including shorthand
  • a discussion of ethical, legal and professional issues such as libel, doorstepping, off-the-record briefings and the limits of editing
  • a glossary of journalistic terms and notes on further reading.