1st Edition

Journalism of Ideas Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age

By Daniel Reimold Copyright 2013
384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

384 Pages
by Routledge

Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0. With on-the-job advice from professional journalists, activities to sharpen your multimedia reporting skills, and dozens of story ideas ripe for adaptation, Dan Reimold helps you develop the journalistic know-how that... Read more

Chapter 1: The Idea Stage. Chapter 2: A Journalism Life. Chapter 3: People Stories. Chapter 4: Fresh Perspectives. Chapter 5: Words, Letters & Lots of Ideas. Chapter 6: Timely Ideas. Chapter 7: Trendy Ideas. Chapter 8: Criminal Ideas. Chapter 9: Location, Location, Location. Chapter 10: The Local Angle. Chapter 11: Building a Beat. Chapter 12: Records Reporting. Chapter 13: Data Journalism. Chapter 14: Photojournalism Ideas. Chapter 15: An Immersion of Ideas. Chapter 16: Idea Lists. Chapter 17: Digital & Mobile Story Mining. Chapter 18: Journalism Hackathon. Chapter 19: Field Notes. Chapter 20: The Sales Pitch. Conclusion: Rebellious Reporter Child. Bibliography

Biography

Daniel Reimold is an assistant professor of journalism and a student newspaper adviser who has taught reporting, editing, and new media courses at universities in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.. He maintains College Media Matters (www.collegemediamatters.com), a student journalism industry blog affiliated with the Associated Collegiate Press, the largest and oldest U.S. student media organization. He is also the "Campus Beat" columnist for USA Today College and a contributor to Poynter, PBS MediaShift, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of Sex and the University: Celebrity, Controversy, and a Student Journalism Revolution.