This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »
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Exercise: Editing for the web 03
May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »
Exercise: Editing for the web 02
May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »
Exercise: Editing for the web 01
May 21, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: exercises.This editing exercise involves reformulating a story written for print to one for the web. Below on the left is the narrative version of the story. On the right is the form that a web site for which you work uses to introduce the story. We can assume that the full narrative will be somewhere • Read More »
The death of the clever headline?
May 13, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: editing.Writing a good headline is also one of the most important tasks of journalism.
Editing for the web: example 1 illustration
May 13, 2013 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: editing.This page shows a version of editing assignment 1 where the editor has tried to follow the instructions in the assignment. What are some of the obvious differences that you can spot immediately between the original and edited versions? What are some of the less obvious differences? Is there anything else or different that the editor might have done with this story?