Narrative Journalism

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Narrative Journalism

• Or, How to Write Good and Get Rich
• By Donald Morrison
• DMMorrison_at_aol.com

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What is Narrative Journalism?

• Long-form
• Telling a story
• Making it interesting
• A transferrable skill organization

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Examples

• Profile
• Company story
• Trend story
• Personal essay

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What to Expect

• Lots of writing
• Lots of reading
• No hard and fast rules
• Avoiding cliches (like hard and fast rules) and
  other tips
• The three elements of good writing

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Grading

• Class participation, tests and exercises,
  interaction with editor 30
• Midterm Exam 20
• Final version of your long-form story 50

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• I write one page of masterpiece to 91 pages of
  shit. The shit I put in the wastebasket.
• Ernest Hemingway