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| Announcing for the Electronic Media | |
| The Announcer for the Electronic Media | |
| Employment as an Announcer | |
| Education and Training | |
| Checklist: Courses to Build Your Career | |
| The Announcer's Responsibility | |
| Spotlight: Broadcast Ethics and the Announcer's Responsibility | |
| Practice: Practicing with Equipment | |
| The Announcer as Commu... MORE | |
| Principles of Effective Communication | |
| Interpreting Copy Checklist: Analyzing Broadcast Copy | |
| Analyzing Punctuation Marks | |
| Used in Scripts | |
| Marking Copy | |
| Verifying Meaning and Pronunciation Reading | |
| Aloud Conveying Interest in Your Material | |
| Spotlight: Learning to Sound | |
| Local Talking to the Listener | |
| Getting Background about Authors and Copy Employing | |
| Characterization Practice: Analyzing the Delivery of Professional Announcers | |
| Practice: Effecting Mood Changes | |
| Practice: Talking a Script Ad-lib Announcing | |
| Practice: Ad-lib Announcing | |
| Checklist: Improving Ad-lib Announcing Skills | |
| Voice Analysis and Improvement | |
| The Importance of Voice Improvement | |
| Speech Personality | |
| Analyzing Your Speech | |
| Voice Analysis | |
| Voice Quality | |
| Breathing and Breathing Exercises | |
| Spotlight: Improving Your Voice Personality | |
| Common Voice Problems | |
| Practice: Achieving a Low Pitch | |
| Practice: Varying Your Pitch | |
| Practice: Varying Your Tempo | |
| Practice: Working on Nasal Resonance | |
| Pronunciation and Articulation | |
| Variations in United States and Canadian Speech | |
| Causes of Mispronunciation | |
| Pronunciation Phonetic Transcription | |
| Spotlight: The Debate over Standard American Speech Articulation | |
| Audio Performance | |
| Audience Rapport | |
| Microphone Fright | |
| Microphone Consciousness | |
| Performance Skills | |
| Checklist: Preparing to Perform | |
| Practice: Gauging Your Own Performance | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Audio Performances | |
| Spotlight: Breaking into the Announcing Field | |
| Video Performance Audience Rapport | |
| Microphone Consciousness for Video Performers | |
| Camera Consciousness | |
| Instructions and Cues | |
| Performance Skills | |
| Checklist: Evaluating Television Performances | |
| Spotlight: Feature Reporting as Storytelling | |
| Commercials and Public-Service Announcements | |
| In-House Production of Radio Spots | |
| The Announcer's Role | |
| Analyzing and Marking Commercial Copy | |
| Recording a Commercial in a Studio | |
| Spotlight: Tips from a Voice-Over Pro Radio | |
| Public-Service Announcements | |
| Television Commercials | |
| Checklist: Making Effective Television Commercials | |
| Practice: Delivering Radio Commercials and PSAs | |
| Practice: Producing Your Own Commercial | |
| Practice: Delivering Television Commercials | |
| Interview and Talk Programs | |
| Talk and Interview Shows Today | |
| Principles of Effective Interviewing | |
| Tips for Conducting Successful Interviews | |
| Checklist: Becoming a Skilled Interviewer | |
| Spotlight: The Art of Interviewing Radio Talk-Show | |
| Hosts Hosting Television Talk Programs | |
| Practice: Interviewing Practice: Interviewing for Radio News | |
| Radio News | |
| Anchoring Radio News | |
| Checklist: Writing Effective News Copy | |
| The Radio Field Reporter | |
| Spotlight: Philosophies of Radio and Television Journalism | |
| Preparing Feature Reports: Minidocs | |
| Checklist: Recording Interviews Successfully | |
| Practice: Reading News Copy Cold | |
| Practice: Rewriting News Copy | |
| Practice: Performing Commercials on the Side | |
| Television News | |
| Television Reporters | |
| The News Anchor | |
| Spotlight: A Representative Television News Operation | |
| Weather Reporting | |
| Practice: Comparing Local and National Newscasts | |
| Music Announcing | |
| Popular Music Announcing (DJ) | |
| The Realities of Music Radio Today | |
| Showprep for Music Announcers | |
| Spotlight: Showprep Is Everything and Everything | |
| Is Showprep Popular-Music Station Formats | |
| Announcing Styles | |
| Preparing for a Career as a DJ | |
| Checklist: Improving Your Popular Music Announcing Style | |
| Practice: Tracking Rate of Delivery of DJs | |
| The Classical-Music Announcer | |
| Checklist: Polishing Your Classical-Music Announcing | |
| Sports Announcing | |
| Working Conditions of Sports Announcers | |
| Interviewing Athletes | |
| Sports Reporting | |
| The Play-by-Play Announcer | |
| Checklist: Becoming a Better Play-by-Play Announcer | |
| Checklist: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Enter an Announce Booth to Call a Game | |
| Spotlight: Plea to Radio | |
| Sportscasters: Give Us the Details | |
| The Play Analyst | |
| Practice: Play-by-Play Announcing | |
| Practice: Getting Athletes' Names Right | |
| Starting Your Announcing Career | |
| Preparing for Your Career | |
| Checklist: Assessing Your Career Potential | |
| Job-Hunting | |
| Tools Finding | |
| Job Openings | |
| Spotlight: Surviving Career Changes | |
| Applying for a Position at a Radio Station | |
| Interviewing for a Job | |
| Joining a Union | |
| Going Where Your Career Takes You | |
| Preparing a Scannable Reacute;sumeacute; for Today's Standards | |
| Checklist: Format Tips to Maximize your Visibility | |
| Practice: Drafting Your Reacute;sumeacute | |
| Practice: Checking Out the Job Scene | |
| Appendixes: References for Broadcast Performers | |
| Scripts to Develop Performance Skills | |
| Phonetic Transcription | |
| American English Usage | |
| Suggested Resources | |
| Suggested Internet Resources | |
| Credits | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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