Writing and Reporting the News
ISBN: 9780195306668 | 019530666X
Edition: 3rdFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 7/2/2007
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Writing and Reporting the News, Third Edition, is a comprehensive and accessible introductory text for journalism students. Jerry Lanson and Mitchell Stephens provide thorough instruction on writing and reporting, hundreds of examples of good and bad writing and extensive opportunities toapply their advice through practical exercises. Based on the authors' careers as journalists and journalism professors--and on the experience of dozens of other first-rate reporters--this unique textbook/workbook gives students a clear, logical introduction to ... MORE
| Most chapters conclude with a Summary, Additional Reading and Exercises | |
| List of Exercises | |
| Preface | |
| List of Newspapers and Wire Services | |
| Introduction | |
| Writing | |
| The News | |
| News Judgment | |
| Impact | |
| Weight | |
| Controversy | |
| Emotion | |
| The Unusua... MORE | |
| Prominence | |
| Proximity | |
| Timeliness | |
| Currency | |
| Usefulness | |
| Educational Value | |
| Fairness | |
| Rooting | |
| Ignoring | |
| Agreeing | |
| Concluding | |
| Stereotyping | |
| Excluding | |
| The Language of News | |
| Precision | |
| Clarity | |
| Conciseness | |
| Directness | |
| Leads | |
| Traditional Leads | |
| Length | |
| Choosing the Lead | |
| The Five Ws | |
| Details | |
| Context | |
| The Lead's Lead | |
| Points | |
| Label Leads | |
| The Angle | |
| Other Leads | |
| Zingers | |
| Anecdotes | |
| Scene Setters | |
| Quotations | |
| The Angle | |
| Appropriateness | |
| Dilly-Dallying | |
| Control | |
| Stories | |
| Attribution | |
| When to Attribute | |
| Guidelines | |
| Quotations | |
| Direct Quotes | |
| Partial Quotes | |
| Paraphrasing | |
| Form | |
| Length | |
| Choruses | |
| Dishonest Quotes | |
| Editing Quotes | |
| Responsibility for Quotes | |
| Information Selection | |
| Selectivity | |
| Thoroughness | |
| Organization | |
| Paragraphs | |
| The Inverted Pyramid | |
| Supporting the Lead | |
| Elaborating | |
| Secondary Themes | |
| Like Ideas Together | |
| Two or More Primary Themes | |
| Chronology | |
| Transitions | |
| Bullets | |
| After Soft Leads | |
| Background and Context | |
| The Past | |
| Comparison | |
| Patterns | |
| The Future | |
| Reporting in a Multimedia Age | |
| Writing for the Internet | |
| Using Graphics to Tell the Story | |
| Highlight Boxes | |
| Charts and Infographics | |
| Maps | |
| Reporting | |
| Techniques | |
| Facts | |
| Checking | |
| Proof | |
| Interpretation | |
| Story Origination | |
| Press Releases | |
| Tips | |
| Records | |
| Localizing | |
| Regionalizing | |
| Follow-Up | |
| Unannounced Stories | |
| Research | |
| Figure Out a Search Strategy | |
| Find the Best Tools | |
| Computer-Assisted Reporting | |
| Records | |
| Reporters' Files | |
| Sources | |
| Who | |
| Cultivating | |
| Avoiding Being Cultivated | |
| Ground Rules | |
| Interviewing | |
| The Preinterview | |
| Interview Strategies | |
| Questions | |
| Note Taking | |
| Staying in Control | |
| Listening | |
| The End | |
| The Postinterview | |
| Coverage | |
| Obituaries | |
| Form | |
| Getting the Information | |
| Enterprise | |
| Meetings, Speeches and Press Conferences | |
| Meetings | |
| Speeches and Press Conferences | |
| Government and Politics | |
| Sources | |
| Records and Documents | |
| Budgets | |
| Bids | |
| Campaigns | |
| Polls | |
| Police | |
| Beat Checks | |
| Sources | |
| Crime | |
| Fires, Accidents and Disasters | |
| Enterprise | |
| Courts | |
| Records | |
| Sources | |
| Criminal Court | |
| Civil Court | |
| Enterprise | |
| Features | |
| Preparation | |
| Observation | |
| Building the Story | |
| Tone | |
| Types | |
| Specialized Coverage | |
| Municipal Services | |
| Sources | |
| Records | |
| Basic Stories | |
| Enterprise | |
| Story Approaches | |
| Education | |
| Sources | |
| Documents | |
| Basic Stories | |
| Enterprise | |
| Business and Labor | |
| Business Sources | |
| Labor Sources | |
| Documents | |
| Basic Stories | |
| Enterprise | |
| Science, Medicine and the Environment | |
| Preparation | |
| Complexity and Uncertainty | |
| Whom Do You Trust?Sources | |
| Journals | |
| References | |
| Basic Stories | |
| Enterprise | |
| Broadcast Journalism | |
| Broadcast Writing | |
| Radio Reporting | |
| Television Reporting | |
| The Basics | |
| Format | |
| Fundamentals | |
| Editing the Old-Fashioned Way | |
| Exercises | |
| Style | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Capitalization | |
| Names and Courtesy Titles | |
| Numbers | |
| Punctuation | |
| Spelling | |
| Sexism | |
| Spelling and Grammar | |
| Who, Which and That | |
| Verb Tense | |
| Agreement | |
| Misplaced Modifiers | |
| Parallel Construction | |
| Analogies, Metaphors and Cliches | |
| Analogies | |
| Mixed Metaphors | |
| Cliches | |
| Ethics | |
| Freebies | |
| Checkbook Journalism | |
| Conflict of Interest | |
| Misrepresentation | |
| Private Lives | |
| Law | |
| Libel | |
| Privacy | |
| Protecting Sources | |
| Access | |
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Jerry Lanson is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Emerson College and served as its first chair. A former editor at the San Jose Mercury and an experienced writing coach, he is the coauthor of News in a New Century: Reporting in an Age of Converging Media (1999).
Mitchell Stephens is Professor in the Department of Journalism at New York University. He is the author of A History of News (OUP, 2007), the rise of the image the fall of the word (OUP, 1998), and Broadcast News (2004).
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