"An Introduction to News Reporting" gives beginning reporters the tools to succeed by introducing them to news beats and the people, issues, sources, and stories associated with them. The text begins by reviewing the basics of reporting, including conducting interviews, developing sources, finding documents, and gathering information ethically and legally. It continues with a detailed look at t…
Airwords is a hands-on workbook with numerous exercises and writing examples that focuses on developing writing skills for broadcast news.
MEDIA EFFECTS RESEARCH, FOURTH EDITION, provides an excellent introduction for students studying mass media' effects on society. Through an engaging narrative style, the author presents fascinating research findings on media' impact and related mass media theories. Students are provided with a clear perspective of the relationship between science, methods, and practical questions about the effe…
In 1996, veteran CBS News reporter and producer Bernie Goldberg committed the unpardonable sin of publicly mentioning the issue of liberal bias in the media. For that he became persona non grata at CBS. Goldberg tells how friends and colleagues turned on him, from junior CBS reporters all the way to Dan Rather. But much more than that, he exposes a bias so uniform and overwhelming that it perme…
More than a quarter of a million students have learned the craft and ethics of journalism from Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing. This classic text shows students the fundamentals of reporting and writing and examines the values that direct and underline the practice of journalism. The new edition features current developments in all areas of reporting, discusses the use of stark phot…
In Herbert Zettl's field-defining text TELEVISION PRODUCTION HANDBOOK, the author emphasizes how production proceeds in the digital age -- from idea to image -- and how it moves through the three major phases, from preproduction to production to postproduction. In this context, Zettl describes the necessary tools, considers what they can and cannot do, and explains how they are used to ensure m…
From dailies, to specialized monthlies and quarterlies, to online journals, there are now more venues for disseminating information than ever before—all of them in need of qualified reporters. Written for a new generation of journalists, this handbook schools readers in the art and science of reporting as practiced at the world’s largest and oldest news service. Written by an ace reporter w…
In this new edition the emphasis shifts to how production proceeds in the digital age -- from idea to image -- and how it moves through the three major phases, from preproduction to production to postproduction. In this context, you will learn about the necessary tools, examine what they can and cannot do, and explore how they are used.
Five years ago in The Vanishing Newspaper, Philip Meyer offered the newspaper industry a business model for preserving and stabilizing the social responsibility functions of the press in a way that could outlast technology-driven changes in media forms. Now he has updated this groundbreaking volume, taking current declines in circulation and the number of dailies into consideration and offering…
McQuail's Mass Communication Theory has been the benchmark for studying mass communication theory for more than 25 years. It remains the most authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field and still offers unmatched coverage of the research literature. Fully up-to-date, this new edition includes: New boxed case studies on key research publications, familiarizing students with the cri…
Provides an excellent introduction to students of mass media effects, and presents the research findings of media impacts and the connected mass media theories in the context of those research findings.
Christ Frost shows how a well designed publication can provide a powerful platform for good journalism. He details the elements of a good design & provides instruction on how to get the most out of computers & computer-aided design.
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Originally available only to Associated Press members, this is the definitive guide to writing and delivering the news on radio, television, and other broadcast media. While the focus throughout is on the art of finding, researching, writing, editing, producing, and delivering authoritative, accurate, and exciting news stories, it also provides a wealth of information on key technical aspects i…
Kompas adalah surat kabar nasional Indonesia dari Jakarta yang terbit sejak tanggal 28 Juni 1965. Surat kabar ini diterbitkan oleh PT Kompas Media Nusantara yang merupakan bagian dari Kompas Gramedia.
The Jakarta Post was born in 1983 when Suharto s repressive New Order regime was at its height and the media was muzzled. Five rival media companies came together to start an English-language daily that some saw as an experiment doomed to fail. But the newspaper s punchy editorials, clean presentation of the news, and quirky columns and features quickly made a mark with the growing expatriate c…