Tweet It! Great News and Feature Writing 140 Characters at a Time

Learning to write eye-catching tweet-length lede paragraphs (140-characters, 20-25 words) that draw in your readers is the key to writing great news and feature stories. The technique can be applied to print, online or on-air stories. Whether you are a blogger, news writer or novelist -- or someone creating a simple news release for your organization — good ledes will bring your work to life. Tweet It! offers more than 70 story examples with tips to improve your ledes and, as a result, your news and feature writing. Author Bruce Lewis has written more than 5000 news and feature stories and won a half dozen professional awards for his work. In addition, he has created more than 1,000 blog posts on several websites. This ebook is dedicated to the National Newspaper Association and America's 7,000 community newspaper journalisms they support. Both hardcore journalists and serious public relations consultants will benefit from this ebook.