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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accidents, working-men's insurance, sanitary conditions in factories,
and the health of workers. Child welfare is treated in reports of federal, state, and city child-welfare boards. The reports of the Interstate Commerce Commission, like those of state railroad commissions, contain interesting material on various phases of transportation. State and federal census reports often furnish good subjects and material. In short, nearly every official report of any kind may be a fruitful source of ideas for special articles. The few examples given below suggest various possibilities for the use of these sources. Investigations made by a commission of American medical experts constituting the Committee on Resuscitation from Mine Gases, under the direction of the U.S. Bureau of Mines, supplied a writer in the _Boston Transcript_ with material for a special feature story on the dangers involved in the use of the pulmotor. A practical bulletin, prepared by the home economics department of a state university, on the best arrangement of a kitchen to save needless steps, was used for articles in a number of farm journals. From a bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture a writer prepared an article on "the most successful farmer in the United States" and what he did with twenty acres, for the department of "Interesting People" in the _American Magazine_. The results of a municipal survey of Springfield, Illinois, as set forth in official reports, were the basis of an article in the _Outlook_ on "What is a Survey?" Reports of a similar survey at Lawrence, Kansas, |
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