Roy Peter Clark holds the post of senior scholar at the Poynter Institute, and as such is one of narrative journalism’s hardest-working midwives. You may have already encountered him here on Storyboard or through his books on writing, including “Coaching Writers” and more recently, “The Glamour of Grammar.”
We had hoped to bring you highlights from his [...]
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Roy Peter Clark on “the power of the parts” for storytelling
November 9, 2010 – 4:36 pm
The importance of words in multimedia storytelling
April 21, 2010 – 3:53 pm
Journalists are told to write short for the Web. The online audience wants information, not a lovely phrase or a rousing metaphor. “On the Web, people want to move quickly,” says Hoa Loranger, quoted on a video for a Web writing session at the 2009 Online News Association conference. “Our challenge is to adapt to that behavior.”
Journalism—even that of [...]
