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Broadcast journalism : techniques of radio and television news /

This new edition of Broadcast Journalism is a major revision to the premier textbook in its field and a standard primer for broadcasting courses. It is an up-to-date practical manual for would-be reporters eager to enter the hectic arenas of radio and TV news. Broadcast Journalism offers a vivid ins...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boyd, Andrew, 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [England] ; Boston : Focal Press, 2001.
Edición:5th ed.
Colección:Focal journalism.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword
  • How to use this book
  • Part OneBroadcast. Journalism
  • NEWS GATHERING
  • 1. The best job in town
  • Personal qualities
  • Jobs in broadcasting
  • Radio
  • Television
  • The multi-skilled broadcast journalist
  • Freelancing
  • Industry training
  • Training courses
  • Degree, or not degree ...
  • Getting a foot in the door
  • A level playing field
  • 2. What is news
  • Proximity
  • Relevance
  • Immediacy
  • Interest
  • Drama
  • Entertainment
  • Different types of news
  • Checklist
  • Fieldwork.
  • 3. News sourcesReporters
  • Contacts
  • Newsroom diary
  • Files
  • Check calls
  • Emergency services radio
  • Politicians
  • Pressure groups
  • Staged events
  • News releases
  • Syndicated recordings
  • Freelances
  • Tip-offs
  • Hoaxes
  • Wire services and news agencies
  • The network
  • Other news media
  • Shared material
  • Fieldwork
  • 4. Getting the story
  • Newsroom conference
  • Copytasting
  • Balance of news
  • Visuals and actuality
  • The brief
  • The angle
  • Chasing the contact
  • Staged news conferences
  • Beating the clock
  • Work to sequence
  • Don't panic
  • Fieldwork
  • WRITING FOR BROADCAST
  • 5. Conversational writing
  • Telling the story.
  • Writing for a mass audienceNo second chance
  • Confusing clauses
  • Inverted sentences
  • Plain English
  • Familiar words
  • Easy listening
  • Accurate English
  • Keep it concrete
  • Make it interesting
  • Contractions
  • Rhythm
  • Fieldwork
  • 6. Newswriting
  • The news angle
  • Multi-angled stories
  • Hard news formula
  • The intro
  • Placing key words
  • Feature openers
  • Developing the story
  • Signposting
  • Last line
  • Last words
  • Accuracy
  • Fieldwork
  • 7. Broadcast style book
  • Cliches
  • Journalese
  • Hyperbole
  • Adjectives
  • Quotations
  • Attribution
  • Contentious statements
  • Immediacy
  • Active
  • Positive
  • Redundancies
  • Repetition
  • Homonyms.
  • Singular or plural Pronouns
  • Punctuation
  • Spelling
  • Abbreviations
  • Figures
  • Proof reading
  • Ambiguity
  • Fieldwork
  • INTERVIEWING
  • 8. The interview
  • The interviewer's skill
  • Different types of interview
  • A disaster story
  • The disaster story continues ...
  • Fieldwork
  • 9. Setting up the interview
  • Background
  • A plan of campaign
  • the questions
  • Get your facts right
  • Fit the brief
  • Check arrangements
  • Approach
  • The questions
  • Winding up the interview
  • Being interviewed yourself: the Q & A
  • Fieldwork
  • THE NEWS PROGRAMME
  • 10. From 2-minute headlines to 24-hour news
  • The bulletin
  • News programmes.
  • DocumentaryVérité
  • 24. -hour news
  • Who does what
  • Fieldwork
  • 11. Item selection and order
  • 'A fair picture . . .'
  • Second thoughts
  • Item order
  • Local considerations
  • Foreign coverage
  • Producing a running order
  • Fieldwork
  • 12. Putting the show together
  • Winning an audience
  • the openers
  • Keeping an audience
  • headlines and promotions
  • Actuality
  • Pictures
  • Graphics
  • Programme balance
  • being all things to all people
  • Nightly News
  • And now the good news
  • Fieldwork
  • 13. Making the programme fit
  • Cutting
  • Filling
  • Backtiming
  • Fieldwork
  • PRESENTING THE NEWS
  • 14. News anchors and presenters
  • The talent.
  • Qualities of a newscaster.