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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
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Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; New to This Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 The Business of News; Ratings; The Scope of Media Use; Media Use Is More Complex Than It Used to Be; It's Hard to Measure Media Use; What We Think We Know About Media Use; What We Don't Know About Media Use; So Where Are We Going?; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 2 News; What Is News?; Balancing News Values; Types of Stories; Breaking News; Planned Event Reporting; Enterprise Reporting; Investigative Reporting; Special Segment Reporting; Features; Where Story Ideas Come From |
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The Assignment DeskThe Morning and Afternoon Meetings; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 3 Readability; Broadcast News Writing; Writing for the Ear v. Writing for the Eye; Rules of Readability; Newsroom Computer System; The Slug; The Printed Word; Hyphenation; Abbreviation; Symbols; Initials and Acronyms; Names; Numbers; Ages; Emphasis; Pronouncers; Spelling; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 4 Words; Keep It Simple; Keep It Conversational; Informal Words; Contractions; Formal Terminology; People ... Not Persons; Keep It Clear; Common Usage; Technical Terms |
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Definite and Indefinite ArticlesKeep It Tight; Make It Powerful; Use Strong Nouns and Verbs; Avoid Weak Qualifiers; Get It Right; Says; Saying Too Much; Think; Common Problems; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 5 Phrases and Phrasing; How to Say It; Voice; Tense; Clarity; Conciseness; Clauses and Phrases; Positive Phrasing; Pronouns; That; Time and Space Problems; What to Say; Titles and Identifiers; Attribution; Quotations; Numbers; Race; What You Didn't Mean to Say; Dates; Unintended Meanings; Editorials; Clichés; Sexism; Personalization; Last Note; Summary; Key Words & Phrases |
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Exercises6 Sentences; Keep It Short; One Important Idea; Put People First; Keep It Simple: Subject-Verb-Object; Use Some Variety for Interest; Split Up Complex Sentences; Make It Clean, Clear and Concise; Make Every Sentence Count; Avoid Repetition; Stay Positive; Make Sense; End Strong; Last Note; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 7 Leads and Endings; Types of Leads; Hard Main Point Lead; Soft Main Point Lead; Throwaway Lead; Umbrella Lead; Delayed or Suspense Lead; Question Lead; Figuring Out the Lead; What's the Story About?; Say Something Meaningful; Keep It Simple |
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Start with New NewsFocus on People; Focus on Local; Put Location in the Lead; Be Direct and to the Point; Save the Name for Later; Save the Day and Date for Later; Update Leads; Responsibility; Types of Endings; Future Ramification Close; Summary Point Close; Information Close; Opposition Point of View Close; Punch Line; Summary; Key Words & Phrases; Exercises; 8 Stories; Plan and Focus; Why Run the Story?; Do You Understand?; What's the Story About?; What's the Lead?; In What Order Do You Tell the Story?; Story Logic; Handling the Basics; Will It Stand on Its Own? |
| Summary |
Updated in its 5th edition, Papper's Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook is the first and most widely used handbook in broadcast news. This book clearly and concisely outlines the rules of broadcast news writing, reporting, grammar, style, and usage. With chapter-by-chapter coverage of story types, from business stories to crime and legal reporting, education, government, health, the environment, weather, and sports, the Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook lays out the particular demands of composition, form, style, and usage in all the diverse areas of broadcast news. Because the news busin. |
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Broadcast journalism -- Authorship.
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Journalism -- Style manuals.
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Report writing.
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Journalisme -- Codes typographiques. |
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Rapports -- Rédaction. |
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Broadcast journalism -- Authorship |
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Journalism |
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Report writing |
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Style manuals
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Papper, Robert A. Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2015 9780205032273 |
| ISBN |
9781317349761 (electronic bk.) |
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1317349768 (electronic bk.) |
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9781317349754 |
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131734975X |
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