MATTHEW RICKETSON is Professor of Journalism at the University of Canberra and has worked as a journalist at The Age, The Australian and Time Australia magazine. He is the author of Telling True Stories and editor of Australian Journalism Today...CAROLINE GRAHAM is a journalism lecturer at Bond University. She worked at The Daily Mercury, has written for Traveller's Map and 2020 Magazine, and has coordinated interactive data journalism projects for Crikey and The Guardian Australia.
A wide-ranging, much-needed master class for anyone who tells true yarns in this fast-changing journalistic marketplace. -- Bruce Shapiro, Columbia University Useful and thought provoking -- Margaret Simons, journalist and author A must read for any digital storyteller who wants to write emotive, engaging, believable content. -- Nidhi Dutt, foreign correspondent a perennially valuable primer, now updated for the digital age... No matter how outstanding a newspaper or magazine article may be, it's essentially ephemeral. So it's both a tribute to these writers and an inspiration and practical help to their successors that Ricketson and Graham have preserved their work, and the story of how it came about, in book form. * Sydney Morning Herald *