Short Story Writing And Free Lance Journalism
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SHORT STORY WRITING AND FREE-LANCE JOURNALISM To ne Subs SHORT STORY WRITING AND , FREE-LANCE JOURNALISM BY SYDNEY A. MOSELEY AUTHOB OF The Truth About a Journalist Television To-day and To-morrow Whos Who in Broadcasting, Money Making in Stocks and Shares, The Truth About Borstal, A Singular People, With Kitchener in Cairo, Brightest Spots in Brighter London, FOURTH EDITION LONDON SIR ISAAC PITMAN SONS, LTD. 1946 PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION THAT SHORT STORY WRITING AND FREE-LANCE JOURNALISM has been selling steadily for some thirteen years is, I venture to submit, sufficient x testimony to its usefulness and popularity. What has happened in the intervening years from 1926 to 1939 new periodicals, new subjects, new editors and new ideas. And, of course, a multitude of new writers and new stars. I have revised this edition of SHORT STORY WRITING AND FREE-LANCE JOURNALISM, thoroughly bringing it up to date. Thus I hope the new reader will find it equally as useful as the many thousands who have made the three earlier editions possible. SYDNEY A. MOSELEY. ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB, LONDON, S. W. I. 1939. INTRODUCTION CAN JOURNALISM BE TAUGHT THERE are few questions on which journalists are more divided domestically than that of the teaching of journalism. You will be told by some that no theoretical train ing in the world will make a journalist of anybody who lacks a special aptitude for the work. It is further claimed that the journalistic sense, like the musical sense, cannot be acquired, and must have been created within you. On the other hand, there are many experienced writers who hold that, given average intelligence and education to start with, journalism is a profession, like any other, which may be studied and taught. One could go on theorizing from both sides of the question. Far better to give the results of my own actual experience in putting the problems to the test. Some time ago I was approached by two colleagues who asked me to become the principal of a schoo
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