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Shop talk and war stories : American journalists examine their profession / [compiled by] Jan Winburn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- United States.
- Journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 274 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Shop talk & war stories
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, [2003]
- Summary:
- How do you get sensitive information from an uncooperative interview subject? Why not ask Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein. What is it like to report from a war zone? Jim Wooten, who has broadcast from some of the most dangerous places on Earth, could tell you. "Shop Talk and War Stories "brings your students into contact with first-class journalists discussing the trials, pitfalls and triumphs of their careers in journalism.
- Contents:
- 1 Starting Off in Journalism
- Columbia University Commencement Speech / Lelyveld
- Chicken Killers and Alligator Hunters / Bragg
- Initiation / Utley
- Renaissance / Brzezinski
- 2 Reporting
- Reporting Power Tools / Woodward
- Just Checking / Mathews
- Reporting the Fifth W. Where / Klinkenberg
- 3 Interviewing
- The Art of the Interview / Hart
- Interview / Dreifus
- Always Accept the Cup of Coffee / Bernstein, Woodward
- 4 Writing
- What Would Yogi Do? / Fuson
- Storytelling on Deadline / Scanlan
- The Legend on the License / Hersey
- What I Need from My Editor / Murray
- 5 Beats
- Fat Man in the Middle Seat / Downey Jr. Downey, Jr.
- Fire! / Buchanan
- Turn the Beat Around / Sugg
- 6 Investigative Reporting
- Twenty-five Words or Less / Lovelady
- The New Muckrakers / Downey Jr. Downey, Jr.
- Raising Hell / Weiner
- The Light That Never Goes Out / Houston
- 7 Literary Journalism and Specialized Story Types
- The Fourth Genre / Kidder
- The Paper's Paper / Shepard
- Writing About People / Singer
- The Personal Column / Allen
- 8 Broadcast Journalism
- Election Night / Greenfield
- Sticky Storytelling / Krulwich
- This Is Fake / Ewalt
- 9 The Internet and Computer Assisted Reporting
- The Death of Print? / Okrent
- Writing News Online / Dube
- Narrative Journalism Goes Multimedia / Bowden
- The Myth of the Machine / Berens
- 10 Ethical Journalism
- Janet Cooke / Bradlee
- The Unoriginal Sin / Clark
- Geographical Bias / Lundstrom
- "The Real Anita Hill" / Brock
- 11 Journalists and Their Community
- Who Journalists Work For / Kovach, Rosenthal
- Identity Politics / Goldberg
- Volunteer Slavery / Manque.
- ISBN:
- 0312401051
- OCLC:
- 52188764
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