The role of interviewing in feature writing. How to get the most out of your interview.

http://www.spj.org/rrr.asp?ref=6&t=

http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

http://www.nuj.org.uk/about/nuj-code/

http://journalism-education.cubreporters.org/2010/08/how-to-write-profile-story.html

Introduction to feature writing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25035280

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/magazine/casey-affleck-should-be-more-famous.html?ref=magazine&_r=0

http://longform.org/stories/zepps-last-stand

http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21590100-after-dreadful-decade-abroad-americans-are-unduly-pessimistic-about-their-place

http://mediumutm.ca/medium-magazine

Feature writers.

•Lynn Barber – the Observer

•Patrick Cockburn – the Independent

•Deborah Orr – the Independent

•John Pilger

•Barbara Ellen – the Observer/Guardian

•Miranda Sawyer – various

•Simon Barnes – the Times

•Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

In features you cannot forget the...

WHAT

WHERE

WHEN 

WHO 

WHY

HOW

         When writing features think of news being a pyramid, most important information at the top as the story goes on it get more into details and is longer. Features are usually longer, they are more thought about and researched into, they contain comments, they are a form of entertainment but still have hard facts and allows the writer to write about theories aswell as facts. 

•Peg: how you lure readers in

•Angle: slant, approach, interpretation

•Quotes: bring feature to life

•Colour: detail descriptions

•Tone: how you say something

•Voice: words author, expert, friend, gossip

•Packaging: pics, graphics, sidebars, case studies, Q&A, audio, video

         Different type of features may include, profiles, trends, first person: eye witness, confessional human interest, news backgrounder/ colour, lifestyle, travel, follow-up news feature, leader/ analysis and a review. 

"Grab the reader by the throat in the first paragraph, sink your thumbs into the windpipe in the second and hold him against the wall unti the tag line." - Paul O'Neil - American Writer. 

Reading Week.

"Ask a journalist what a feature is and he or she is likely to respond: 'Anything that isn't news.'" 

"It is the journalist's responsibility to take control of the interview." 

"A common question that feature writers are asked is: where do you get your ideas? The usual response is that ideas come from all around you." 

"You have to be prepared to be unpopular if you're a journalist."

"When arranging deadlines, calculate the time likely to be required for the various tasks."

Journalism as entertainment, celebrity and commodity plus advanced news writing workshops on story telling.

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/62196/mod_resource/content/4/Herman%20Chomsky%20Propoganda%20Pdf.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/44703/mod_resource/content/1/Protecting%20the%20news.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64107/mod_resource/content/1/McChesney.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64182/mod_resource/content/1/Lords%20Ownership.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64184/mod_resource/content/1/Media%20Plurality%20Lords.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64092/mod_resource/content/1/Conboy%20on%20celebrity%20journalism.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64102/mod_resource/content/1/Peppiatt%20chapter%20extract.pdf

http://mdx.mrooms.net/pluginfile.php/64093/mod_resource/content/1/Peppiatt.txt

"The Press endorse the basic tenets of capitalism - private enterprise, profit, free market, and rights of property ownership" (Curran & Seaton. 2003)

PR & Celebrity
Fulled by mass media, technological innovation and converging media platforms (particularly social media)  The masses are into celebrity and this is why it is so popular, with the rise in social media, celebrities have been able to become even more popular by connecting with fans via social media such as twitter, instagram etc. This is on a new level of how fans can get particularly close with celebrities they follow. However, how much privacy does this leave for the celebrity.

Celebrities commercialise themselves through promotion, publicity and advertising. Show like Big Brother and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, are ways in which people can see the celebrities out of there normal celeb state and in a new light, for most celebs this is good publicity and will another jobs from this like an interview in Heat Magazine. Whether it be for good or bad publicity it will be some sort of publicity.

This is where the narrative of public and private persona come in. What is authentic and what isn't. And that is part of the gossip fans will have, and is part of the fun in following celebrities.

The kind of figures of photo paparazzi is $50,000 for a picture of a celeb on their own, $100,000 of the celeb with them and their partner, and triple this if the photographer can catch one cheating on one another.

"A free and diverse media are an indispensable part of the demographic process... if one voice becomes too powerful, this process is placed in jeopardy and democracy." (Conservative Party Statement.)

"The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision, which are so important for our democracy. Dumping free, state-sponsored news on the market makes it incredibly difficult for journalism to flourish on the internet. (James Murdoch. 2009)

UK TV  Consolidation
There are only three in england -
BBC
ITN - who produce news for Channel 4 & 5
Sky - Produce news for their own channels.

US big media corporations
General Electric - 26 TV stations majority share NBC.
Walt Disney - ABC and 277 radio stations
News Corporation - Fox, Wall St Journal, NY Post.
Time Warner - CNN
Viacom - Global broadcast News (India)
CBS - CBS network.

Who owns world news.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KusZ29rZHYIC&pg=PA210&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

•AOL Time Warner: (Huffington Post and CNN)

•News Corporation:(news interests worldwide including Fox)

•General Electric: (49% of NBC)

•The DirectTV Group (US cable)

•Disney: (ABC)

•CBS

•Bertelsmann: Financial Times Deutschland,  Morgenpost Sachsen, Sachsische Zeitung TV across Europe

•Google: 90 % of world search traffic

•Cox Enterprises

•Advance Publications (local, magazines inc Conde Nast, Discovery)

 CNN is shown is 212 countries with a daily audience of 1 Billion.
The BBC is distributed to 361 million houses world wide.