have you got what it takes to be a magazine editor?
Thompson, Lisa
2009
Describes what it is like to be a magazine editor, providing information on the education and training requirements, day-to-day responsibilities, and history of the career.
Eager to launch her career as a celebrity journalist, fifteen-year-old Susanna is excited at the prospect of being a summer intern at Scene magazine but soon discovers that her real job is to be a personal assistant, not a reporter, and that she must find her own way to prove her journalistic talents.
After spending the summer as an intern at Scene magazine, fifteen-year-old Susanna is asked to accompany her impossibly demanding boss to the Academy Awards, where she is determined to prove herself as more than just a star-struck teenager.
Jack Hart shares the wisdom he has gathered during his writing career, offering other writers advice on gathering ideas, writing theme statements and outlines, and adding variety and texture to any type of writing.
conversations with America's best nonfiction writers on their craft
Boynton, Robert S
2005
Contains interviews with nineteen nonfiction writers who discuss how and why they produce their work, how they get their ideas, conduct research, and begin the writing process.
Excerpts from original newspaper and magazine reports, radio transcripts, and wartime books document the buildup to World War II and the first years of fighting, from 1938 to 1946. Includes biographical notes and photographs of the correspondents.
A simple guide to writing a newspaper, magazine, or online article that provides tips on getting started, finding the story, people, viewpoint, story development, vocabulary, dialogue, and other related topics.
Presents a behind-the-scenes look at newspapers, briefly reviewing their history, describing their different types, identifying the jobs available on newspapers, featuring case studies that follow six stages in their production, and discussing delivery, newspaper careers, and the influence and future of newspapers in society.
the remarkable true account of hoaxers, showmen, dueling journalists, and lunar man-bats in nineteenth-century New York
Goodman, Matthew
2008
Discusses the six tabloid articles which appeared in 1835 on the pages of a small New York City newspaper--the Sun--that supported claims of life existing on the Earth's moon, and describes unicorns, beavers that walk upright, and four-foot-tall flying man-bats.
Explores journalism in the United States since the events of September 11, 2001, contending that the media has not thoroughly covered the War in Iraq or terrorism, resulting in a public that is misled and uninformed.
