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How To Write Special Feature Articles - A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer
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editor of the _Brooklyn Eagle_, sees it, he describes thus:

The new Sunday magazine of the newspaper bids fair to be a crisp,
sensible review and critique of the live world. It has developed a
special line of writers who have learned that a character sketch and
interview of a man makes you "see" the man face to face and talk
with him yourself. If he has done anything that gives him a place in
the news of to-day, he is presented to you. You know the man.

It seems to me that the leading feature of the Sunday magazine
should be the biggest topic that will be before the public on the
Sunday that the newspaper is printed. It should be written by one
who thoroughly knows his subject, who is forceful in style and
fluent in words, who can make a picture that his readers can see,
and seeing, realize. So every other feature of the Sunday magazine
should have points of human interest, either by contact with the
news of the day or with men and women who are doing something
besides getting divorces and creating scandals.

I firmly believe that the coming Sunday magazine will contain
articles of information without being dull or encyclopædic, articles
of adventure that are real and timely, articles of scientific
discoveries that are authentic, interviews with men and women who
have messages, and interpretations of news and analyses of every-day
themes, together with sketches, poems, and essays that are not
tedious, but have a reason for being printed.

THE MAGAZINE FIELD. The great majority of magazines differ from all
newspapers in one important respect--extent of circulation. Popular
magazines have a nation-wide distribution. It is only among agricultural
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