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The broadcast journalism handbook : a television news survival guide / Robert Thompson and Cindy Malone.
Van Pelt Library PN4784.T4 T48 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Robert, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Television broadcasting of news--Vocational guidance.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Broadcast journalism--Vocational guidance.
- Broadcast journalism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]
- Summary:
- The Broadcast Journalism Handbook has everything you ever wanted to know about working in the television news business but were afraid to ask! Learn the ropes--and how to head off amateur errors--from the authors' vast experiences and dozens of interviews with news professionals. Complete with job-searching tips, helpful web sites, and real-life scenarios, this book covers many newsroom positions, from assignment editors to producers, reporters, and anchors. It gives you newsroom experience before you get the job.
- Contents:
- TV news: the myth and the reality
- You've got the job: what do you do now?
- Your first day
- Putting it all together: cast and crew
- Newsroom survival guide
- The business of news
- Crossing the line
- One-man bands
- The story
- On the job
- Making deadlines
- Writing tips
- Into practice
- News quiz: test your knowledge of history, recent events, and people
- Worst case scenarios
- Amateur errors
- Getting the job
- Wrap-up.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0742525058
- 0742525066
- OCLC:
- 52121351
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