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Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook

by: Papper, Robert A.

Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook

by: Papper, Robert A.

ISBN 13:
9780205449743
ISBN 10:
0205449743
Edition: 3rd
Format: Spiral Bound
Copyright: 01/01/2010
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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TheBroadcast News and Writing Stylebookis the everyday resource for both beginning and advanced writers of broadcast news. With chapter-by-chapter coverage of story types, from business stories to crime and legal reporting, education, government, health, the environment, weather, and sports, theBroadcast News and Writing Stylebooklays out the particular demands of composition, form, style, and usage in all the diverse areas of broadcast news.

Acknowledgments

News

(4)

What Is News?

(2)

Balancing News Values

(1)

Broadcast News Writing

(1)

Organization

(1)

Readability

(9)

The Computerized Newsroom

(2)

Working with the Wire

(1)

Assigning Stories

(1)

Producing Newscasts

(1)

Archiving Information

(1)

Limitations

(1)

Rules of Readability

(7)

The Printed Word

(1)

The Slug

(1)

Hyphenation

(1)

Abbreviation

(1)

Symbols

(1)

Initials and Acronyms

(1)

Names

(1)

Numbers

(1)

Ages

(1)

Emphasis

(1)

Pronouncers

(1)

Spelling

(1)

Words

(15)

Keep It Simple

(1)

Keep It Conversational

(1)

Informal Words

(1)

Contractions

(1)

Formal Terminology

(1)

People . . . Not Persons

(1)

Keep It Clear

(3)

Common Usage

(2)

Technical Terms

(1)

Definite and Indefinite Articles

(1)

Keep It Tight

(1)

Make It Powerful

(1)

Use Strong Nouns and Verbs

(1)

Avoid Weak Qualifiers

(1)

Get It Right

(1)

Says

(1)

Saying Too Much

(1)

Think

(1)

Common Problems

(8)

Phrases and Phrasing

(16)

How to Say It

(7)

Voice

(1)

Tense

(1)

Clarity

(1)

Conciseness

(1)

Clauses and Phrases

(1)

Positive Phrasing

(1)

Pronouns

(1)

That

(1)

Time and Space Problems

(1)

What to Say

(5)

Title and Identifiers

(1)

Attribution

(3)

Quotations

(1)

Numbers

(1)

Race

(1)

What You Didn't Mean to Say

(3)

Dates

(1)

Unintended Meanings

(1)

Editorials

(1)

Cliches

(1)

Sexism

(1)

Personalization

(1)

Last Note

(1)

Sentences

(8)

Keep It Short

(3)

One Important Idea

(1)

Put People First

(1)

Keep It Simple: Subject-Verb-Object

(1)

Use Some Variety for Interest

(1)

Split Up Complex Sentences

(1)

Make It Clean, Clear and Concise

(4)

Make Every Sentence Count

(1)

Avoid Repetition

(1)

Stay Positive

(1)

Make Sense

(1)

End Strong

(1)

Last Note

(1)

Leads and Endings

(16)

Types of Leads

(4)

Main Point Leads

(3)

Other Leads

(1)

Figuring out the Lead

(8)

What's the Story About?

(1)

Say Something Meaningful

(1)

Keep It Simple

(1)

Start with New News

(1)

Focus on People

(1)

Focus on Local

(1)

Put Location in the Lead

(1)

Be Direct and to the Point

(1)

Save the Name for Later

(1)

Save the Day and Date for Later

(1)

Update Leads

(1)

Responsibility

(1)

Types of Endings

(3)

Future Ramification Close

(1)

Summary Point Close

(1)

Information Close

(1)

Opposition Point of View Close

(1)

Punch Line

(1)

Stories

(17)

Plan Your Writing

(6)

Why Run the Story?

(1)

Do You Understand?

(2)

What's the Story About?

(1)

What's the Lead?

(1)

In What Order Do You Tell the Story?

(2)

Story Logic

(3)

Handling the Basics

(1)

Will It Stand on Its Own?

(1)

Answer the Logical Questions

(1)

Story Structure

(1)

Make the Writing Structure Interesting

(1)

Transitions

(4)

Within Stories

(2)

Between Stories

(2)

Before You're Done

(3)

Does the Story Support the Lead?

(1)

Will the Audience Understand?

(1)

Use Humor Sparingly

(1)

Read the Story Aloud

(1)

Working with and Gathering Bites, Actualities and Natural Sound

(10)

Collecting Sound

(2)

Good Bites and Bad Bites: Technical

(1)

Good Bites and Bad Bites: Content

(1)

An Alternative to Traditional Bites

(1)

Working with Bites, Actualities and Natural Sound

(4)

Don't Stop the Story

(1)

Don't Repeat

(1)

Watch out for Partial Lead-Ins

(1)

Making the Story Flow

(1)

Finding the Lead-In

(1)

Television Lead-Ins

(1)

Writing out of Bites

(1)

Packages

(3)

Writing into Packages

(1)

Introducing a Package That Starts with a Bite

(1)

Understand Where the Story Begins

(1)

Package Tags

(1)

Interviewing

(7)

Plan and Listen

(6)

Technical Concerns

(1)

Make the Interviewee Comfortable

(1)

Ask Questions That Deliver What You're After

(1)

Use Silence

(1)

Maintain Strong Eye Contact

100

(1)

Learn to Respond Inaudibly

100

(1)

Follow up and Clarify

100

(1)

Maintain Control

101

(1)

Ask for More . . . Twice

101

(1)

Make Notes Afterward

101

(1)

Beyond the Interview

102

(1)

Being Human

102

(1)

A Closing Thought

102

(1)

Radio: Story Forms and Working with Sound

103

(5)

Radio Story Forms

103

(1)

Drawing Radio Pictures

104

(4)

The Words

104

(1)

Using Nat Sound

104

(1)

Listen to the Sound Quality

105

(1)

Putting It All Together

105

(3)

TV: Story Forms

108

(11)

Story Forms

108

(4)

Readers

109

(1)

Voiceovers

109

(1)

VO/SOT

110

(1)

Packages

111

(1)

Putting Packages Together

112

(1)

Pacing

112

(1)

Don't Outdate Packages

113

(1)

Live Reporting

113

(5)

Planning

117

(1)

Crosstalk

117

(1)

Live Look

118

(1)

Golden Rules

118

(1)

TV: Working with Pictures

119

(9)

The Power of the Visual Image

119

(2)

Working with Strong Pictures

119

(1)

Working without Strong Pictures

120

(1)

The TV Balancing Act

121

(5)

Use Pictures and Words for What They Do Best

121

(2)

Use Natural Sound and SOT

123

(1)

Write TV Loosely

123

(1)

Coordinate Words and Pictures

124

(2)

Visualizing the Story

126

(1)

Picture Cautions

126

(2)

Use Meaningful Pictures

126

(1)

Today's Pictures

126

(1)

Watch Your Supers

127

(1)

Caring and Connecting

128

(10)

Everyday Problems

129

(1)

Good Reporting Starts with Caring

130

(1)

Think Creatively

131

(1)

Plan and Focus

132

(1)

Bites and Natural Sound

132

(1)

Strong Stories Have Central Characters and a Plot

133

(1)

Prove Your Story

134

(1)

The Element of Surprise

135

(1)

Connecting with Truths

136

(1)

Epilogue

136

(2)

Story Ideas and the Assignment Desk

138

(7)

Stories

139

(1)

Breaking News

139

(1)

Planned Event Reporting

139

(1)

Enterprise Reporting

139

(1)

Investigative Reporting

140

(1)

Special Segment Reporting

140

(1)

Features

140

(1)

Where Story Ideas Come From

140

(2)

The Morning (and Afternoon) Meeting

142

(1)

The Assignment Desk

143

(1)

Covering What You Want

143

(2)

Producing News on TV

145

(10)

Overview

145

(1)

Audience

146

(1)

Audience Flow

147

(1)

Newscast Structure

147

(3)

News, Weather and Sports

148

(1)

Special Segments, Franchises and Features

149

(1)

Building a Local Newscast

150

(5)

Teases and Promos

155

(5)

Promotion

155

(1)

Tease . . . Don't Tell

156

(1)

Make Them Care

157

(1)

Going Too Far

158

(2)

Convergence and Online News

160

(12)

Some Basic Terms

160

(1)

Research and the Web

161

(1)

Convergence

162

(2)

The Information Web Site

164

(7)

Web Design

165

(1)

News on the Web

165

(2)

Constructing Web News

167

(3)

Online Writing Rules

170

(1)

Other Issues

170

(1)

The Future

171

(1)

Ethics and the RTNDA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

172

(6)

Ethics

172

(2)

The Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct

174

(4)

Business, Taxes and the Economy

178

(9)

Reporting on Money

178

(1)

Defining Terms

179

(8)

Calendar

187

(9)

Solar and Lunar and the World's Major Religions

187

(1)

Calendar Holidays

187

(5)

Buddhist Holidays

191

(1)

Hindu Holidays

192

(1)

Muslim Holidays

192

(1)

State Holidays

192

(4)

Crime and Legal

196

(9)

Crime Reporting

196

(1)

Attribution

197

(8)

When to Use Attribution

197

(1)

Alleged

197

(1)

Misplaced Attribution

198

(1)

Cautions

198

(1)

Get the Terms Right

199

(1)

Defining Terms

199

(6)

Education

205

(7)

Education Reporting

205

(2)

Defining Terms

207

(5)

Geography

212

(7)

Where Are We?

212

(1)

Defining Terms: United States

212

(2)

Voice of America Pronunciation Guide

214

(1)

Defining Terms: World

215

(4)

Government

219

(6)

How the System Works

219

(1)

Defining Terms

220

(5)

Health and Medicine

225

(8)

Reporting on Health and Medicine

225

(2)

HIPAA

225

(1)

Hospital Conditions

226

(1)

Defining Terms

227

(6)

Space and Aviation

233

(11)

Defining Terms

233

(11)

Sports

244

(6)

Reporting Sports

244

(2)

Reporting Scores

244

(1)

Common Mistakes

245

(1)

Sports and Teams

246

(4)

Auto Racing

246

(1)

Baseball---Major Leagues

246

(1)

Basketball---National Basketball Association

247

(1)

Basketball---Women's National Basketball Association

247

(1)

Boxing

247

(1)

Football---National Football League

247

(1)

Football---Arena Football League

248

(1)

Football---Canadian Football League

248

(1)

Golf

249

(1)

Hockey---National Hockey League

249

(1)

Soccer---Major League Soccer

249

(1)

Weather and Natural Phenomena

250

(8)

Reporting Weather

250

(1)

Severe Weather

251

(1)

Defining Terms

251

(7)

TV Script Form and Supers

258

(13)

Abbreviations

258

(1)

Script Form

259

(3)

Standard Anchor Read

259

(1)

Standard 2-Shot

259

(1)

Standard Anchor Read with gfx

260

(1)

Anchor with Voiceover

260

(1)

Anchor with VO/SOT

260

(1)

Anchor VO/SOT with Package Intro

261

(1)

Supers

262

(9)

Names

262

(5)

Location, Date and Miscellaneous

267

(4)

Glossary of Broadcast Terms

271

(6)

Index

277

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