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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Oxford [England] ; Boston :
Focal Press,
2001.
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Edición: | 5th ed. |
Colección: | Focal journalism.
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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.