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Feature Writing and Reporting offers a fresh look at feature writing and reporting in the 21st century. Award-winning professor and author Jennifer Brannock Cox teaches students the fundamentals of feature writing and reporting while emphasizing the skills and tools needed to be successful in the digital era. Packed with the best samples of feature writing today, this practical text gives students ample opportunity to practice their writing as they build a portfolio of work for their future careers. Special attention on new multimedia and online reporting prepares readers for success in a rapidly changing media landscape.

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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. --Andrea Greenbaum 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. --Robert Nanney 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. --Robert Rabe 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. --Sarah Duerden 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. --Farooq A. Kperogi 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. --Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi 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. --Daniel Sipocz This textbook examines what it's like to be, and how to be, a feature writer in the digital age. --Christina C. Smith

This textbook examines what it's like to be, and how to be, a feature writer in the digital age. --Christina C. Smith 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. --Daniel Sipocz 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. --Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi 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. --Farooq A. Kperogi 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. --Sarah Duerden 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. --Robert Rabe 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. --Robert Nanney 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. --Andrea Greenbaum

"""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."" --Andrea Greenbaum ""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."" --Robert Nanney ""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."" --Robert Rabe ""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."" --Sarah Duerden ""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."" --Farooq A. Kperogi ""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."" --Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi ""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."" --Daniel Sipocz ""This textbook examines what it's like to be, and how to be, a feature writer in the digital age."" --Christina C. Smith"

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Jennifer Brannock Cox, Ph.D., is an award-winning professor, scholar and adviser at Salisbury University in Maryland, where she primarily teaches courses on print and multimedia journalism. She has created several new courses addressing this evolving field, including Mobile Journalism, Advanced Feature Storytelling, Immersion Journalism and Seeking Solutions Through Journalism. Cox spent several years working as a journalist at newspapers throughout Florida, and she maintains her skills as a multimedia freelancer on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Cox has received several teaching awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). She won three first-place awards and two honorable mentions in the organization's Teaching News Terrifically in the 21st Century competition, third place in the Teaching Best Practices competition, and she was twice named as a finalist for the Great Ideas for Teaching award. Cox was nominated by Salisbury University for the University System of Maryland's Board of Regents' Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and was a finalist for the City of Salisbury's Light of Literacy award for education. She was also named Advisor of the Year for her work with the Society of Professional Journalists chapter she founded at Salisbury University and was recognized by the SPJ national office for her work as president and treasurer of Maryland's professional chapter. As a scholar, Cox has received three top conference paper awards from AEJMC and the Broadcast Education Association. She has published research articles in Newspaper Research Journal, Community Journalism, and the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, and she has presented more than 20 scholarly papers at journalism conferences. She has also published articles in 10 professional publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, Quill and Inside Higher Ed and a chapter in the text ""Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice."" Cox lives in Salisbury, Maryland, with her husband, Jeremy, and their daughter, Charlie.

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