Bruce DeSilva

About Bruce DeSilva

Bruce DeSilva spent 40 years as an award-winning writer and editor at newspapers and at the Associated Press, where he served as the writing coach and edited a special-projects team.

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An Unexpected Ending

By Bruce DeSilva• Journalist’s Trade• March 15, 2002

“What Price the News” was written a couple of years ago but certainly resonates today because of the subject matter. The writer is a young man named Ian Stewart. And at the beginning of the story, Ian is drifting in … Read more

A Love Fest on Narrative Elements

By Bruce DeSilva, Chip Scanlan and Jon Franklin• Journalist’s Trade• March 15, 2002

It’s the voice, you fool. No, it’s the theme, dummy. No, it’s the story, you buttonhead. Read more

Endings

By Bruce DeSilva• Journalist’s Trade• March 15, 2002

‘The inverted pyramid makes endings impossible.’ Read more