Broadcast news writing, reporting, and producing / Ted White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Ted, 1926- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broadcast journalism.

Report writing.

Reporters and reporting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press, is an imprint of Elsevier, [2005].

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast journalism. 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. The book emphasizes real-life situations, and examines the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students

Contents:

Cover; Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Changing Industry; Is Journalism for You?; What Role to Play?; Your College Education; Internships; Your First Job; Responsibility and Accuracy; 1 Broadcast News Writing Mechanics; Some Basics; Correcting Copy; Slugs; The Split Page; Avoiding Abbreviations; Avoiding Split Words and Sentences; Punctuation; Names and Titles; Middle Names and Initials; Foreign Names; Ages; Marital Status; Race; Numbers; Timing Stories; Review Questions; Exercises

2 Broadcast News Writing StyleRewriting Wire Copy; Conversational Style; Contractions; Reading Your Copy Aloud; Avoiding Information Overload; Avoiding Relative Clauses; Eliminating Long Words; Conjunctions; Prepositions; Pronouns; Modifying Phrases; Avoiding Clichés; Writing What You Mean; Good Grammar and Some Exceptions; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 3 More Style Rules; Verbs; Present Tense; Present Perfect Tense; Mixing Tenses; Active Verbs; Says Is a Good Verb; Strong Verbs; Limiting Use of Adverbs and Adjectives; Attribution; Using Quotes; Expressing Time; Looking Ahead

TransitionsPeople, Not Persons; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 4 Writing Broadcast Copy; Leads; The "Five W's and H Rule"; Hard and Soft Leads; The "Right" Emotion; The Quote Lead; The Shotgun Lead; The Suspense Lead; The Delayed Lead; Negative Leads; Updating and Reworking the Lead; Constructing the Rest of the Story; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 5 Color: The Key to Good Writing; Color Should Be Natural; Emulate the Best; Kuralt On the Road; "A Postcard from Nebraska"; Crisp and Clear; Use Your Senses; Color Comes in Many Shades; Colorful Obituaries

Frederick, Ellerbee, and AaronMurrow and His "Boys"; "This Is London"; "Permit Me to Tell You"; "The Fault, Dear Brutus"; Eric Sevareid: Writing with Class; Good Things from Local Stations; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 6 Radio News; You Need A Scorecard; All News Radio Stations; Good News Teams Are Also Found in Small Places; Your Audience; Organizing Material; Writing from the Back; The Lead Story; The Rest of the Newscast; Localizing the News; Story Length; Actualities; Wraparounds; Lead-Ins; Teases; Headlines; Pad Copy; Back Timing; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises

7 Writing for the Television NewscastCombining Words and Pictures; Sound Bites; The Television Newswriter; Read Stories; Voice-overs; The Split Page; Video Instructions; Sound on Tape; Lead-Ins; Headlines and Teases; A Team Effort; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 8 Delivering the News; Credibility; One-Way Communication; Getting Help with Your Delivery; Dialects; Listening to Yourself; Getting Pronunciation Help; Pacing; Marking Copy; Characteristics of Successful Anchors; Ratings Wars; Cosmetics; Summary; Review Questions; Exercises; 9 Finding the News; The Wires

Television Satellite Feeds

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786611119508

9781136025228

1136025227

9781281119506

1281119504

OCLC:

476085623