Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life

by WaltHarrington (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  1997

  $143.07

  An exemplary text for courses in feature writing, magazine and literary journalism, Intimate Journalism introduces students to the art of combining human interest stories with incisive journalistic enquiry. Harrington prefaces this outstanding collection of award-winning feature articles with detailed, practical reporting advice, sharing trade secrets from his 15 years as a staff writer for The Washington Post. The following chapters each contains examples of human interest reporting, followed by an invaluable afterword from each journalist describing how he or she conceptualized, reported and wrote their particular story.