Newsroom Journalism |
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| Author:
| Strachan, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9808117-0-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Peter Strachan
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| Book Format: | Spiral bound |
| List Price: | AUD $59.95 |
Book Description:
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NEWSROOM JOURNALISM is a straightforward, easy to follow guide geared to help beginners find and write attention-grabbing news reports in a modern, Australian front-line news environment. It is ideally suited to students, recent beginners in professional journalism and those who simply want to inexpensively find whether this industry is for them. It has been produced by practising journalists in a format anyone with secondary education English skills can easily understand and is now...
More DescriptionNEWSROOM JOURNALISM is a straightforward, easy to follow guide geared to help beginners find and write attention-grabbing news reports in a modern, Australian front-line news environment. It is ideally suited to students, recent beginners in professional journalism and those who simply want to inexpensively find whether this industry is for them. It has been produced by practising journalists in a format anyone with secondary education English skills can easily understand and is now being used by tertiary institutions and some of Australia's leading publishers as a training document. Instruction follows a natural progression from a brief overview of the history of news in its earliest forms to modern day. It explains the principles of newsgathering and the concepts of modern reporting and it includes an effective training strategy aimed at equipping students with the newsroom skills needed to gain the best chance of securing employment. Through 15 chapters of instruction and exercises, students are shown how to find stories editors want to publish; how to write them to accepted news style; the importance of speed and accuracy and deadlines and how to meet all of these requirements with minimum stress to all concerned. Those who have contributed to its pages are all frontline journalists with daily, community and provincial newspaper and web experience. All understand the importance of using cross media to enhance the speed, colour and quality of the coverage today's journalists have at their fingertips.