So you're excited about sharing your opinion with either the readership of a blog, small-circulated newspaper or even a mass-circulated newspaper? And now you want to know how to articulate those delicious but amateur inner workings into a professional journalistic piece? Well that will have to come later. The most important knowledge you need to be equipped with is the vehicle, the medium. In essence, you need to know where this practice stands today and where its heading. (however if your either cannot wait for this or you think you are already aware of the current state of this media practice, read this:
econrsss.anu.edu.au/~aleigh/pdf/OpEd_Tips.pdf
Quite possibly, the best "free" guide for writing/syndicating your opinion pieces, and if your a complete amateur in this journalistic field, your new best friend. It should fastrack you some quality journalistic knowledge needed to survive in the field. As you will soon learn, the opinion piece is not just some free space for some heated rant about anything.
Is this the modern day opinion piece? Hardly.
So have you heard about the structure of argumentation, disclosures, deploying certain types of humour and bylines? No? So you thought you could just write about anything did you?
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