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Download PDF by Donald Murray: Writing to Deadline: The Journalist at Work

By Donald Murray

ISBN-10: 0325002258

ISBN-13: 9780325002255

Writing to Deadline takes the reader into the brain of the nonfiction author, demystifying the method wherein newshounds make clear confusion and current major info below not easy regulations of time and area. this is often an important ebook for operating reporters, professors and scholars of journalism, administrators of newspaper inservice writing courses, and an individual who desires to examine extra about:

  • the news-writing strategy
  • reporting and writing for shock
  • focusing your tale
  • draft writing
  • enhancing and fine-tuning
  • case reviews of genuine reporters at work.

Combining his wisdom as a composition researcher and theorist together with his useful event as a instructor and journalist, Donald Murray either explains and demonstrates the writing procedure as he permits the reader to appear over his shoulder - and the shoulders of different newshounds - as they perform the craft of the immediate.

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5 They did, however, insure Greeley’s life for a sizeable sum, and this return provided Whitelaw Reid with some of the capital he needed to reconstruct the floundering paper. To buy a controlling interest, however, Reid had to borrow $500,000 from one of the least respected businessmen of nineteenth-century America, the financier Jay Gould. This alliance was both unimaginable and antithetical to the program and philosophy of the Tribune, but it was a necessary evil in Reid’s mind to gain control of the paper.

Increasingly reclusive in his Washington Heights mansion, died there in June 1872. The staff had little confidence that the younger Bennett could manage the Herald, and his reputation as an aristocratic playboy did not bode well for the newspapers’ continued supremacy. The younger Bennett took on his duties with less editorial acumen than his father, but with a seemingly unlimited budget for newsgathering. He funded many expeditions to the North Pole and sent the correspondent Henry Morton Stanley into Central Africa to find Dr.

Indd 28 8/24/12 2:49 PM News Capital / 29 creating demand for the space by publicizing their popularity. Like Bennett, Barnum was not concerned about the reputations of the people who were the source of his income. According to Matthew Hale Smith, “Mr. ”34 In a strategy reminiscent of Bennett’s earlier telegraphing schemes, “Barnum offered the Atlantic Telegraph Company five thousand dollars for the privilege of sending the first twenty words over to his Museum. ”35 (Hearst would employ a similar publicity stunt in the twentieth century, commissioning a dirigible to carry the first issue of his paper from its headquarters).

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