NEWS WRITING AND REPORTING FOR TODAY'S MEDIA

• Main Authors: Itule, Bruce D. 1947- (Author), Anderson, Douglas A. (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston McGraw-Hill Education 2008
• Edition: 7th ed., International ed.
• Subjects: Mass media > Authorship; Report writing; Reporters and reporting > Authorship; Journalism > Authorship
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: xviii, 484 pages 24 cm
• ISBN: 9780071275828; 0071275827

Designed for introductory news writing and reporting classes, this text focuses on real reporters in real situations. It presents up-to-date coverage of writing principles, with a wide variety of actual news stories from a variety of newspapers. The third edition includes a new chapter on multicultural reporting, expanded coverage of information gathering, and broader coverage of ethics. Its special features are as follows: it uses first-person accounts from working reporters and editors to give students a sense of the excitement of the profession and to show how concepts and principles work in real situations; it provides detailed, comprehensive discussions of the rudiments of news writing and reporting, including coverage on leads, story organization, interviewing, quotations and attribution, and qualities of good writing and gathering of information; it integrates sections on broadcast writing and discusses the differences and similarities between print and broadcast reporting and w