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Broadcast News Writing, Reporting and Production
- 2nd Edition - January 31, 1996
- Author: Ted White
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 5 7 2 1 1 - 6
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting and Production examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast. Along with complete coverage of the… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBroadcast News Writing, Reporting and Production 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. This edition includes such timely topics as the OJ Simpson trial and the Oklahoma City Bombing.
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting and Production contains the most complete treatment of reporting techniques and scripts by outstanding correspondents available in a broadcast news text. Famous journalists such as Betsy Aaron, Bob Dotson, Charles Osgood, Susan Stamberg, and Richard Threlkeld not only provided scripts for the book; they also discuss how they write and report. In addition there is an emphasis throughout on real-life situations. The problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors and producers face every day are discussed in detail.
Broadcast News Writing, Reporting and Production contains the most complete treatment of reporting techniques and scripts by outstanding correspondents available in a broadcast news text. Famous journalists such as Betsy Aaron, Bob Dotson, Charles Osgood, Susan Stamberg, and Richard Threlkeld not only provided scripts for the book; they also discuss how they write and report. In addition there is an emphasis throughout on real-life situations. The problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors and producers face every day are discussed in detail.
Eight out of twenty three chapters focus on reporting topics, ranging from basic skills, to specialty reporting, to ethics.
Scripts and interviews by famous broadcast journalists including Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, Edward R Murrow, and Eric Sevareid.
Practical chapters on interviewing skills and techniques, using the hardware, and the job search.
Scripts and interviews by famous broadcast journalists including Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt, Edward R Murrow, and Eric Sevareid.
Practical chapters on interviewing skills and techniques, using the hardware, and the job search.
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; Covering planned events; Reporting live; Putting the television story together; The interview; Collecting information from documents; Developing sources; Ethics and the law; More legal and ethical issues; Speciality reporting; Producing; Using the hardware; The job search in a changing industry; Index.
Finding the news; Broadcast news reporting; Reporting assignments; Covering planned events; Reporting live; Putting the television story together; The interview; Collecting information from documents; Developing sources; Ethics and the law; More legal and ethical issues; Speciality reporting; Producing; Using the hardware; The job search in a changing industry; Index.
- No. of pages: 408
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: January 31, 1996
- Imprint: Focal Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780080572116
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Ted White
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Emeritus Chair-Communications Department at Southern University, Baton Rouge, USA