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No contacts? No problem! How to Pitch and Sell a Freelance Feature
There are plenty of books on the market which tell you how to write stylish prose, attention-grabbing headlines or market yourself better as a freelance writer. But how do you get that first piece published in a national publication? This book shows you the techniques that real freelancers use to sell their ideas and get into print. Professional freelancer Catherine Quinn, who built a successful freelance career from scratch, guides you through a step-by-step process to get your first article in print, from how to format your pitch, to identifying the undersold freelance hotspots.
Her tried and tested step-by-step approach: - Shows you how to scope the market and pick the most likely potential customers
- Gives the inside track on how to convince editors who've never heard of you to commission your work
- Tells you what to expect at every step along the pitching process
- Includes a four week plan with a day-by-day process to kick start your freelance career
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Out of print : journalism and the business of news in the digital age
\"Traditional newspapers are under threat. The emergence of citizen journalism, collaborative news websites and freebie news-sheets -- coupled with a catastrophic drop in ad revenue -- has pushed many to the brink. Papers around the world are cutting copy, editions and staff, moving online or closing down. Out of Print explores how the collision of technology, economics and social forces has thrown news, newspapers and journalism into crisis. Covers key issues such as: the increased competition from expansive radio and 24 hour television news channels; the emergence of free \"Metro\" papers; the delivery of news services on billboards, podcasts and mobile; the development of online editions, as well as the burgeoning of blogs, citizen journalists and User Generated Content. Incisive and authoritative, Out of Print analyzes the role and influence of newspapers in the digital age and asks whether they can survive and, if so, how\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century English Periodicals
Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals discusses the English periodical and how it shapes and expresses early conceptions of authorship in the eighteenth century. Unique to the British eighteenth century, the periodical is of great value to scholars of English cultural studies because it offers a venue where authors hash out, often in extremely dramatic terms, what they think it should take to be a writer, what their relationship with their new mass-media audience ought to be, and what qualifications should act as gatekeepers to the profession. Exploring these questions in The Female Spectator, The Drury-Lane Journal,The Midwife, The World, The Covent-Garden Journal, and other periodicals of the early and mid-eighteenth century, Manushag Powell examines several \"paper wars\" waged between authors. At the height of their popularity, essay periodicals allowed professional writers to fashion and make saleable a new kind of narrative and performative literary personality, the eidolon, and arguably birthed a new cult of authorial personality. In Performing Authorship in Eighteenth-Century Periodicals, Powell argues that the coupling of persona and genre imposes a lifespan on the periodical text; the periodicals don't only rise and fall, but are born, and in good time, they die.
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The history of the provincial press in England
\"Comprehensive history of the development of the regional press in England from its origins to today, also examining the context of the work of journalists\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Read All About It
This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions.
Starting with the early 17 th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19 th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20 th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society.
Using lively and entertaining examples, Kevin Williams illustrates the changing form of the newspaper in its social, political, economic and cultural context. As well as telling the story of the newspaper, he explores key topics in detail, making this an ideal text for students of journalism and the British newspaper. Issues include:
newspapers and social change
the changing face of regional newspapers
the impact of new technology
development of reporting techniques
forms of press regulation
Introduction: News, Newspapers and Society 1. Spreading the Word: the Pre-history of Newspapers 1486-1660 2. Newspapers for the Few: Politics, the Press and Partisanship 1660-1789 3. Knowledge and Power: the Radical Newspaper 1789-1850 4. Transition to Democracy: the Press as 'the Fourth Estate' 1850-1890 5. The Northcliffe Revolution: the Rise of the Commercial Newspaper 1890-1922 6. Newspaper Wars: the Press in the Inter War Years 1922-1939 7. War, Social Change and Reconstruction: Newspapers at War and Peace 1939-1967 8. The Land of the Rising Sun: the Emergence of the Tabloid Newspaper 1967-1989 9. The Long Goodbye: the Newspaper and Technological Change 1989-present
Kevin Williams is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Swansea University. He is author of Get Me a Murder a Day! A History of Mass Communication in Britain (1998), Understanding Media Theory (2003) and European Media Studies (2005).
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The business of news in England, 1760-1820
\"The Business of News in England, 1760-1820 explores the commerce of the English press during a critical period of press politicization, as the nation confronted foreign wars and revolutions that disrupted domestic governance (1760-1820). Britain had a precociously commercial newspaper press, yet our understanding of it has remained surprisingly basic. Examining the lives and businesses of 257 newspapers and 305 newspaper proprietors, this study explores the emergence of the provincial press as the powerhouse of the English press. It demonstrates how competition in the newspaper trade shaped cooperative networks and as a result, shaped news content, information flow, and even readers' notions of belonging; and how the financial success of the trade and occupational cohesion enabled the rise of the Fourth Estate and irrevocably changed the dynamics of power in the press-politics nexus. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Who owns the news? : a history of copyright
You can't copyright facts, but is news a category unto itself? Without legal protection for the \"ownership\" of news, what incentive does a news organization have to invest in producing quality journalism that serves the public good? This book explores the intertwined histories of journalism and copyright law in the United States and Great Britain, revealing how shifts in technology, government policy, and publishing strategy have shaped the media landscape.
Publishers have long sought to treat news as exclusive to protect their investments against copying or \"free riding.\" But over the centuries, arguments about the vital role of newspapers and the need for information to circulate have made it difficult to defend property rights in news. Beginning with the earliest printed news publications and ending with the Internet, Will Slauter traces these countervailing trends, offering a fresh perspective on debates about copyright and efforts to control the flow of news.
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