Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing The Alchemy of Creating Prize-Winning Stories

“Martin uses the Virtue Map to investigate … . The map becomes a compass guiding the researcher. … Emotions and Virtues in Feature Writing has a solid taxonomy that would be useful to students and researchers for referencing the scholarship on the ‘emotional turn’ in journalism and useful media theories in this context. In introducing her Virtue Mapping for narrative long-form features, Martin also gives us a tool to examine what alchemy is at work in creating winning journalism.” (Helen Vatsikopoulos, Australian Journalism Review, Vol. 43 (2), 2021)