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Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0. It 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 it connects the advice and ideas with a slew of interactive exercises, assignment prompts, ethics and clich alerts, and blueprints for building innovative multimedia stories.The exercises, observations, anecdotes, and tips touch on every stage of the story planning and development process, including how news judgment, multimedia engagement, records searches, and various observational techniques can help spin a brainstorming session into published gold. Separate advice focuses on the storytelling methods involved in data journalism, photojournalism, crime reporting, and commentary writing.In addition to these tricks of the trade, "Journalism of Ideas" contains an extensive set of prompts to inspire student journalists--based on newsworthy, timely or unconventional stories that fall within every essential and popular reporting beat worth mastering. All these ideas are directly connected to stories recently published by student press outlets across the U.S., Canada, and Britain. Combined with pointers and exercises, these prompts jumpstart a storytelling conversation that continues on the author s blog, College Media Matters.A concluding segment shares the secrets to establishing a presence and launching a career in journalism--the ins-and-outs of pitching stories, getting published, and navigating the internship and job search. Related tips touch on the art of freelancing 2.0, starting an independent blog or site, constructing a quality online portfolio, and building a social media following.
