Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing
3rd Edition
Published on 20. November 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
520 pages
978-0-240-80433-0 (ISBN)
Description
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting and Producing examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, the text presents up-to-date examples and issues through actual scripts and interviews with the people who bring us the news. Ten out of twenty five chapters focus on reporting topics, ranging from basic skills to specialty reporting to ethics. This new edition features such timely topics as the Jonesboro and Littleton shootings, the Clinton sex scandal, the CNN Tailwind story, the Elian Gonzales story, and other contemporary examples.
Broadcast News Writing Reporting and Producing emphasizes real-life situations; the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day are discussed in detail, as well as such topics as ethics, investigative reporting, the job market, legal issues, and interviewing techniques. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students can learn and apply what they've read. This edition also includes new insights in civic journalism and computer-assisted reporting, and the impact of the Internet on news gathering.Broadcast
The text also contains writing samples from famous broadcast journalists like the late Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Paul Harvey, Charles Osgood, Susan Stamberg and Richard Threlkeld and others, all of whom not only offer examples of quality news writing, but also discuss how they write and report.
Broadcast News Writing Reporting and Producing emphasizes real-life situations; the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day are discussed in detail, as well as such topics as ethics, investigative reporting, the job market, legal issues, and interviewing techniques. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students can learn and apply what they've read. This edition also includes new insights in civic journalism and computer-assisted reporting, and the impact of the Internet on news gathering.Broadcast
The text also contains writing samples from famous broadcast journalists like the late Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Paul Harvey, Charles Osgood, Susan Stamberg and Richard Threlkeld and others, all of whom not only offer examples of quality news writing, but also discuss how they write and report.
Reviews / Votes
"A welcome update to the best text available on this subject.""will use the 2nd ed for now, new chapters on C A R and tabloid are a welcome addition"
More details
Edition
3rd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-240-80433-0 (9780240804330)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Book
07/2005
4th Edition
Focal Press
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Persons
Ted White had been a broadcast journalism since starting his career as a copy boy for The Voice of America while in college as a journalism student. He worked for CBS, ABC, and CNN, as well as other major radio and TV stations in NYC, where he was a writer, reporter, editor, and producer before becoming a college professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.
Ted White had been a broadcast journalism since starting his career as a copy boy for The Voice of America while in college as a journalism student. He worked for CBS, ABC, and CNN, as well as other major radio and TV stations in NYC, where he was a writer, reporter, editor, and producer before becoming a college professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.
Ted White had been a broadcast journalism since starting his career as a copy boy for The Voice of America while in college as a journalism student. He worked for CBS, ABC, and CNN, as well as other major radio and TV stations in NYC, where he was a writer, reporter, editor, and producer before becoming a college professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA.
Content
Introduction; Broadcast News Writing Mechanics; Broadcast News Writing Style; More Style Rules; Writing Broadcast Copy; Color: The Key to Good Writing; Writing for the Radio Newscast; Writing for the Television Newscast; Delivering the News; Finding the News; Broadcast News Reporting; Reporting Assignments; Reporting Live; Putting the Television Story Together; The Interview; Computer-Assisted Reporting; Developing Sources; Speciality Reporting; Ethics and the Law; More Ethical Issues; Tabloid Journalism; Producing; Using the Hardware; The Job Search in a Changing Industry; Glossary