[PDF] Practical Newspaper Reporting 3rd Edition eBook

Author : David Spark
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1473903343

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Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry. Today, as ever, it provides students of newspaper journalism with a toolkit for gathering news and filling ever-increasing space with first-rate copy for print and online. Detailed and down-to-earth, this book delivers: • Guidance on news gathering, from government and business to sport and religion • Guidance on news writing, drawing on over 300 examples that have appeared in print, discussing why they work or how they could have been better • Guidance on feature writing, including profiles, comment, leading articles, obituaries and reviews • Specific chapters on ethical reporting and the possibilities and pitfalls of investigative journalism • A review of the new financial realities that the internet is imposing on the media. Informed by over half a century′s professional experience and fully revised to give a nuanced account of the skills required in an online environment, this book is an essential companion for your journalism degree and beyond.

Author : David Spark
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Business enterprises
ISBN :

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This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers: What is news? How the modern newsroom operates How facts are gathered and checked The reporter and picture ideas District reporting Techniques of interviewing News writing and newspaper language How to summarize Reporting the courts Political and industrial reporting Aspects of sportswriting Feature writing and arts reviewing The book also includes an important new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage and it examines a newspaper's internal structure and the reporter's daily work in the light of the latest technology. This classic textbook is a must for all journalism and media courses and offers the ideal career introduction for the young journalist.

Author : Tim Harrower
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :

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This text does for reporting what Tim Harrower's The Newspaper Designer's Handbook has previously done for design: make it fun and accessible to newcomers. Harrower is an award-winning editor, designer and columnist who has previously taught at Portland State University and currently conducts journalism workshops. Inside Reporting emphasizes the basics but also provides a wealth of information on online reporting and packaging stories in more visual, interactive ways. It also includes more useful information on feature writing--from stories to reviews and column-writing--than any other text in the field.

Author : Richard Keeble
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,30 MB
Release : 2006-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134726430

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The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's job and examines changing newspaper ownership structures and recent ethical controversies.

Author : Jerry Lanson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,49 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Feature writing
ISBN : 9780195306668

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A comprehensive and accessible introductory text for journalism students. Lanson and Stephens provide thorough instruction on writing and reporting, examples of good and bad writing and extensive opportunities to apply their advice through practical exercises. Based on the authors' careers as journalists and journalism professors--and on the experience of dozens of other reporters--this textbook/workbook gives students a clear, logical introduction to the craft of journalism. The book has three goals: to teach clear, concise and accurate writing; to teach students how to find reliable information about newsworthy events and issues and how to set this information within an understandable and meaningful context; to explain the workings of print, online and broadcast newsrooms and how the gathering and delivery of news are changing in today's increasingly digital and cross-media age.--From publisher description.

Author : Susan Pape
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 2005-03-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847877575

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′As well as guides on how to report courts and councils, Newspaper Journalism offers tips on how to write both news stories and features and how to make and keep contacts. The tips are packed with real life examples from journalists working on provincial newspapers. A worthwhile read - and not just for the latest newshound to join the press pack′ - www.HoldtheFrontPage.co.uk ′This is lucid, lean and up-to-date introduction to newspaper journalism and how to do it′ - Jane Taylor, The Surrey Institute of Art and Design A practical introduction to journalism, and the broader context in which journalists operate, Newspaper Journalism covers the key elements and distinctive features that constitute good newspaper journalism. Engagingly written, the book is also a rich resource of real life examples, anecdotes, case studies and exercises. Susan Pape and Susan Featherstone have drawn on their considerable experience to provide a solid grounding in the principles and practice of newspaper journalism. The resulting book recognises the needs of the profession and those seeking to enter it.