Writing for News Media

Writing for News Media

Author: Ian Pickering

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1317222482

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Writing for News Media is a down-to-earth guide on how to write news stories for online, print and broadcast audiences. It celebrates the craft of storytelling, arguing for its continued importance in a modern newsroom. With dynamism and humour, Ian Pickering, a journalist with 30 years’ experience, offers readers practical advice on being a news journalist, with step-by-step guidance on creating a great story and writing the perfect news copy. Chapters include: extracts from published news articles to help illustrate the dos and don’ts of storytelling; the ten golden rules for structuring and putting together a successful news article, including ‘Nail the intro’, ‘Let it flow’ and ‘Keep it simple’; instruction on writing stories for different specialist subjects, including politics, court cases, economics, funnies and celebrity; help for readers on how to write for broadcast news; tips on how to write headlines, how to use pictures, how to make the most of quotations and how to avoid common style and grammar mistakes; glossaries covering a range of different aspects of news journalism, including types of news story, online and data journalism, typesetting and broadcasting. This is an instructive and insightful manual which champions brilliant storytelling and writing with flair. It introduces a set of key creative and analytical techniques that will help students of journalism and young professionals hone and refi ne their story-writing skills.


News Writing

News Writing

Author: Anna McKane

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2006-12-04

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9781412919159

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Anna McKane provides a step-by-step guide to constructing a good news story, with good and bad examples and a detailed analysis of style, language and grammar.


The Elements of News Writing

The Elements of News Writing

Author: James Williamson Kershner

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780205781126

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Kershner's The Elements of News Writing 3/e is a concise handbook that presents the essential rules of journalism, while offering in-depth analysis of the evolving industry. With comprehensive coverage from history to how-to, and discussions of new media, online journalism, blogging, and social networking, this text covers news writing from a 360 degree view. The Elements of News Writing covers the basics of news writing without the extra verbiage that bogs down many textbooks. The author pays extra attention to grammar and usage, with easy-to-follow basic tips on writing for all types of mass media, new and old.


Writing News for Broadcast

Writing News for Broadcast

Author: Edward Bliss

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780231079730

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The authoritative guide to writing for the broadcast medium.


The Process of Writing News

The Process of Writing News

Author: Brian Richardson

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Using examples and exercises, The Process of Writing News takes an "impact, elements, and words" approach to demystify reporting and writing for beginners. This is a concise book that approaches writing as a process, using a pedagogy that has proven effective. In each chapter, the book addresses the roles of journalists at several levels of abstraction, beginning with their responsibilities to audiences in a democratic society, and continuing with ethical decision-making in fulfilling those responsibilities. Each chapter ends with reporting and writing exercises which allow the reader to develop skills for informing audiences and telling compelling stories in print, broadcast, and online news media and to practice and be evaluated on those skills. The reader is taken through a year in the life of a fictional community, revisiting issues and stories in a series of more than two dozen linked exercises of increasing complexity, from lede writing to handling a major breaking story on deadline. There are even opportunities to report and write from the reader's own community.


Writing and Reporting the News

Writing and Reporting the News

Author: Jerry Lanson

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780195306668

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A comprehensive and accessible introductory text for journalism students. Lanson and Stephens provide thorough instruction on writing and reporting, examples of good and bad writing and extensive opportunities to apply their advice through practical exercises. Based on the authors' careers as journalists and journalism professors--and on the experience of dozens of other reporters--this textbook/workbook gives students a clear, logical introduction to the craft of journalism. The book has three goals: to teach clear, concise and accurate writing; to teach students how to find reliable information about newsworthy events and issues and how to set this information within an understandable and meaningful context; to explain the workings of print, online and broadcast newsrooms and how the gathering and delivery of news are changing in today's increasingly digital and cross-media age.--From publisher description.


Writing the News

Writing the News

Author: Walter Fox

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 2001-06-18

Total Pages: 157

ISBN-13: 9780813822488

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The third edition of Writing the News continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing journalists with a clear and concise introduction to the craft of newswriting. In addition to updating and adding to the number of examples from the contemporary press, this new edition includes a section on the increasingly popular narrative form of the news feature and an expanded chapter on news style.


Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing

Author: Frank Barnas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 509

ISBN-13: 1315462192

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Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 7th Edition is the leading book covering all aspects of writing and reporting the news. It identifies the key concepts and terms readers need to know in the news gathering and dissemination process, and provides practical, real-world advice for operating in the modern day newsroom. New to the seventh Edition are profiles of working journalists who give readers a glimpse into the working life of modern reporters, producers, and directors. This new edition also covers important aspects of the use of social media, drone journalism, and digital technology. A new chapter on portfolio development will assist readers in developing the skills to advance in their careers. The text has also been updated to reflect new industry standards in modes of information gathering and delivery, writing style, and technology. Additional features include: Key words at the start of every chapter, identifying important terms and definitions; End of chapter summaries, which allows readers to review the chapter’s main points; "Text Your Knowledge", which helps readers quiz themselves on important concepts; Chapter-by-chapter exercises, which readers can apply to a chapter’s themes; A companion website featuring video tutorials of necessary skills for journalists, including how to arrange lighting structures, how to hold a microphone, and how to properly conduct an interview.