Feature Writing and Reporting

Journalism in the Digital Age

“This is the feature writing textbook that I've been waiting for. It is current in its trends, concepts, and technology as they pertain to feature news brainstorming, news gathering, and writing.”

“This is the most up-to-date book I have seen on the full range of storytelling practices and it is thoughtfully grounded in the idea of recapturing the respect and attention of 21st-century audiences who have wandered away from journalism.”

“Cox has written a guerrilla textbook for the new age of journalism, enabling novice journalists with an array of tactics and strategies to use technology to tell stories in more effective, practical, and exciting ways.”

“This text provides a logical flow, giving students the opportunity to understand the basics in newswriting in this digital age. It provides content on concepts, ethics, story structure, and techniques for storytelling in ways that students can become intrigued in learning about them. As a technology savvy generation, my students would be more engaged when we go through each chapter together in class.”

“This text provides a modern approach to feature writing and covers how to use social media to tell stories. One of its biggest strengths is that it features tips and advice from some of the best feature writers in the industry.”

“This text is a creative, well-written exploration of feature writing principles and practices for our changing digital and social media-saturated media landscape. Students, professors, and journalists alike will find it compelling, instructive, and insightful.”

“This text combines the best advice on developing features with the contemporary tools we have as writers at our disposal today. Well written and thoughtful, this text shows students how and why they should work as writers in the digital age.”

“This textbook examines what it’s like to be, and how to be, a feature writer in the digital age.”