Writing for broadcast journalists

• Main Author: Thompson, Rick 1947-
• Format: Book
• Published: Milton Park, Abingdon Routledge 2010
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Series: Media skills
• Subjects: Report writing; Broadcast journalism > Authorship; Reporters and reporting
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• Physical Description: viii, 192 p. 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 9780415581677 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415581672 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415581684 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415581680 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Writing for Broadcast Journalists guides readers through the significant differences between the written and the spoken versions of journalistic English. It will help broadcast journalists at every stage of their careers to avoid such pitfalls as the use of newspaper-English, common linguistic errors, and Americanised phrases, and gives practical advice on accurate terminology and pronunciation, while encouraging writers to capture the immediacy of the spoken word in their scripts.