| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Part, Part I • How to Write the Right Words and Sentences -- chapter 1 The Right Words, The Right Stuff -- chapter 2 The Wrong Way to Write It -- chapter 3 Being Perfectly Clear -- chapter 4 The Right Way to Write It -- chapter 5 Saying It Twice -- chapter 6 The Story of the Story -- part, Part II • But Before You Write . . . -- chapter 7 Organizing Your Facts, Organizing Your Story -- chapter 8 Choosing Your Lead -- chapter 9 Choosing Your Close -- part, Part III • And After You Write -- chapter 10 Proof Positive of Proofreading -- chapter 11 The Correct Corrections -- part, Part IV • Finding Out What to Write -- chapter 12 News Hunters and News Gatherers -- chapter 13 Running in Place -- chapter 14 Letting It All Hang Out -- chapter 15 A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words -- part, PART V • It's All Part of the Show -- chapter 16 If the Shoe Fits, Write It -- chapter 17 Fitting It All In -- chapter 18 Even More Ways for Radio -- part, Part VI • Being the Right Kind of Journalist -- chapter 19 Holding onto Your Sources -- chapter 20 Holding onto Your Ethics -- chapter 21 Holding onto Your Dream. |
| Summary |
Better Broadcast Writing, Better Broadcast News teaches students how to write with the conversational simplicity required for radio and TV. This text draws on the Emmy Award-winning author's decades of professional experience in broadcast journalism. In addition to writing, the text also discusses the other elements that make up a good story--producing, reporting, shooting, editing, and ethics. The author's real-world perspective conveys the excitement of a career in journalism. |
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Broadcast journalism -- Authorship.
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Reporters and reporting.
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Report writing.
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Rapports -- Rédaction. |
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Broadcast journalism -- Authorship |
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Report writing |
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Reporters and reporting |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dobbs, Greg, 1946- Better broadcast writing, better broadcast news. Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016 0205359949 9780205359943 (DLC) 2004040105 (OCoLC)55037008 |
| ISBN |
9781317349907 |
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1317349903 |
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