Improve your news-writing

For those who want to improve their reporting and writing skills. You should have been writing news stories regularly for at least six months, either online or in print. How to generate more and better stories, especially off-diary. Includes: - Getting more from press releases
- Sharpening your intros
- Finding better stories from events, press conferences and exhibitions
- Using words for impact
- Writing news online
- Attracting and keeping readers' attention
- How to make technical copy more readable
- Writing 'soft' news
- Copy clinic to look at your writing Beginners to news-writing