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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on October 1, 1994. The length of the article is 831 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Well-read. (Indiana's newspapers)
Author: Kevin Lawrence Williams
Publication: Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1994
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
Volume: v38Issue: n10Page: p21(2)

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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on April 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1092 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ink for Blood?(newspaper industry in Indiana)(Brief Article)
Author: Bob Kronemyer
Publication: Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2001
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
Volume: 45Issue: 4Page: 35

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"... this is surely one of the more thoughtful books on magazine journalism. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal

"An excellent how-to, guaranteed to satisfy requests from would-be authors." -- Booklist

"... provides writers with hundreds of ideas to help stimulate their creative approach to magazine article writing." -- WRITERS' Journal

"All kinds of writers will want to keep this volume on their handiest reference shelf." -- Arts Indiana

"For any aspiring magazine writer, or even a practiced one, this book is a treasury of inspiration and solid, eye-opening instruction." -- Herald-Times

"More than just another writer's guide to marketing an article, or coming up with salable ideas, [the book] is actually an idea promoter in that it illustrates the basic principles of good magazine article writing, uses examples from well-known publications, and offers strategies for leading into an involving piece." -- The Midwest Book Review

In this indispensable text, veteran journalist Peter Jacobi offers students hundreds of ideas to help them become more creative in their approach to thinking, planning, and writing magazine articles. Packed with useful advice and top-notch examples, this book takes a practical, hands-on approach to help beginning writers turn everyday subjects into compelling features.

Customer Reviews (8)

Exceptionally insightful
I teach magazine journalism at the college level, and I find Peter Jacobi's book to be the best available for helping students understand the important aspects of this often challenging form of expression. Jacobi offers insightful and interesting examples, he connects with readers in an engaging way, and he walks readers through the process from idea to final polish. I have considered nearly every magazine-writing book out there and I recommend this one very highly.

Useless rambling
Not much more than a collection of anecdotes.Don't expect to learn much here.The section on interviewing, for instance, gives a couple of stories, then a brief guideline, with such original gems as "ask intelligent questions". Nothing on how to find the people to interview, how to connect with them, whether and what you should expect to pay, or how to actually conduct the interview.

A Collections Of Articles. That's It. Nothing Else.
The title should have been "How Your Articles Should Look" The book is a good read... It will get the "creative" juices flowing. Through article examples, the book shows you different methods on how your articles should look. If you're searching for a book that goes into the mechanics of article writing, this book is not it.

Not quite sure
Maybe I just didn't "get it." More likely my expectations were different than what the author intended. I was expecting "hundreds of ideas to spark my creativity" but got the same number of examples from Harpers, New Yorker, WSJ, Time and just about every other publication known to man, or so it seems. Yes I read some good, actually great, writing examples, but it never came together nor did I get the points being made. Perhaps I'll let it sit on the shelf a while and try again another day. For now, my recommendation is to pick up "How to Write Articles for Newspapers and Magazines" - more information in half the number of pages.

Peter Jacobi knows his stuff!
I'm halfway through this book and already have found ways to improve my writing. Copious examples that detail the text. I particulairly found the topic of story structure interesting - something which I had no previous knowledge. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Indiana Business Magazine, published by Curtis Magazine Group, Inc. on October 1, 1992. The length of the article is 4948 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Newspaper war: slugging it out in Northwest Indiana.
Author: Todd Dickard
Publication: Indiana Business Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 1992
Publisher: Curtis Magazine Group, Inc.
Volume: v36Issue: n10Page: p22(1)

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