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

Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0. Dan Reimold, author of the popular campus newspaper blog College Media Matters, gives students an inside look at the way journalists discover a topic and then turn this topic into an original, multifaceted story. This book presents advice from more than a hundred professional journalists, student journalists, journalism professors, and student media advisers and advocates. It boasts hundreds of story ideas ripe for adaptation, and engages students with interactive exercises, assignment prompts, ethics and cliché alerts, and blueprints for building innovative multimedia stories.