Features

Interview with Kate Davidson

Human interest: Reading list

For each style of feature I will ask you to complete I will provide a few examples that we can discuss in class to help jog your creative muscles. Please read, listen or watch them before the day we launch each segment.

Profile: How Bob Miller and the greatest generation saved the RUF/NEKS

Essay: Paradise lost, paradise regained

I thought about our approach as Napoleon must have seen it, as he sailed from his defeat to what would become his deathbed. Great gray rocks rising formidably as a headstone from the immense dreary graveyard of the ocean, clouds casting fleeting patterns of…

Q&A: Reading list

For each style of feature I will ask you to complete I will provide a few examples…

Profile writing tips

40–40–20 rule:

40 percent research
40 percent reporting
20 percent writing

Types of profiles:

Profile: Reading list

For each style of feature I will ask you to complete I will provide a few…

Essay: My semi-charmed life

Lauren was something else. She looked at me in a way no woman ever had.

Story behind the story: Jenni Carlson

My “Story Behind the Story” piece is centered on NewsOK sports columnist Jenni Carlson and…