Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, 4/e

Description:

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast journalism. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, the text presents up-to-date examples and issues through actual scripts and interviews with the people who bring us the news.

The book emphasizes real-life situations, and examines the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students can learn and apply what they've read.

This new edition contains material on embedded journalists, their preparation (journalist boot camp), including the late CNN reporter David Bloom, and their impact on the news. It includes new examples of tabloid journalism and expanded information on the state of terrorism and crime reporting today.

Ted White has been a broadcast journalist since starting his career as a copy boy for The Voice of America while in college as a journalism student. He worked for CBS, ABC, and CNN as well as other major radio and TV stations in NYC where he was a writer, reporter, editor, and producer before becoming a college professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Broadcast News Writing Mechanics; Broadcast News Writing Style; More Style Rules; Writing Broadcast Copy; Color: The Key to Good Writing; Writing for the Radio Newscast; Writing for the TV Newscast; Delivering the News; Finding the News; Broadcast News Reporting; Reporting Assignments; Covering Planned Events; Reporting Live; Putting the TV Story Together; The Interview; Collecting Information from Documents; Computer-Assisted Reporting for Broadcast; Developing Sources; Specialty Reporting; Ethics and the Law; More Ethical Issues; Tabloid Journalism; Producing; Using the Hardware; the Job Search in a Changing Industry; Glossary.

描述：

《廣播新聞寫作、報導和製作》第四版探討了廣播新聞寫作和報導的技巧、技巧和挑戰。除了完整介紹基礎知識外，本書還通過實際腳本和與帶給我們新聞的人的訪談，提供最新的例子和問題。

本書強調真實生活情境，並探討記者、作家、任務編輯和製片人每天面臨的問題。每章都包含寫作、審查和討論的練習，以便學生可以學習並應用所讀的內容。

這本新版書籍包含有關嵌入式記者的材料，以及他們的準備（記者訓練營），包括已故的CNN記者大衛·布魯姆（David Bloom）以及他們對新聞的影響。它還包括關於小報新聞的新例子，以及有關恐怖主義和犯罪報導現狀的擴展信息。

Ted White自大學時期作為新聞學生在美國之音擔任抄寫員以來，一直從事廣播新聞工作。在成為路易斯安那州巴吞魯日南方大學的大學教授之前，他曾在CBS、ABC和CNN以及紐約市的其他主要廣播電台和電視台擔任作家、記者、編輯和製片人。

 

 

目錄：

引言；廣播新聞寫作機制；廣播新聞寫作風格；更多風格規則；寫作廣播稿件；色彩：良好寫作的關鍵；為廣播新聞節目寫作；為電視新聞節目寫作；傳遞新聞；尋找新聞；廣播新聞報導；報導任務；報導計劃事件；現場報導；組織電視新聞故事；訪談；從文件中收集信息；計算機輔助廣播報導；發展消息來源；專業報導；倫理和法律；更多倫理問題；小報新聞；製作；使用硬體；在變化中的行業中尋找工作；詞彙表。