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Journalism

Why don’t newspaper journalists get to the point?

newspaper journalists should get to the point

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If newspapers disappeared tomorrow, would you care? Would you notice?

A damning critique of the newspaper industry at Rogue Columnist got me thinking: do I even care if newspapers disappear?

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Long and winding road: how I became a freelance

Becoming a freelance writer is not easy, but it is possible. The bad news is that it doesn’t really depend on how good a writer you are.

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Who reads the second paragraph? Lessons in writing from Lemmon and Matthau

Journalists summarise the whole story in the first paragraph, and expand on the detail as they go along.

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