Writing For Journalists

Author : Wynford Hicks,Adams Sally,Harriett Gilbert,Tim Holmes,Jane Bentley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317394204

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Writing for Journalists by Wynford Hicks,Adams Sally,Harriett Gilbert,Tim Holmes,Jane Bentley Pdf

The new edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the key issue for writers working across all forms of media today: how to produce clear, engaging and illuminating copy that will keep the reader hooked from start to finish. Written by skilled specialist contributors and drawing on a broad range of examples to illustrate the best professional practice, this edition includes: chapters on how to write news, features and reviews whatever the format used for delivery expanded chapters on writing for digital publication in both shortform and longform top tips on writing columns and blogs from leading professionals an exploration of the importance of style and its impact on great journalistic writing an extensive glossary of terms used in journalism and suggestions for further reading This is an essential guide to good writing for all practising journalists and students of journalism.

Author : Wynford Hicks,Sally Adams,Harriett Gilbert,Tim Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134045617

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Writing for Journalists by Wynford Hicks,Sally Adams,Harriett Gilbert,Tim Holmes Pdf

Praise for the first edition: 'There are books that are badly written, books that are well written and books that you wish you'd written. This is one of the latter. Hicks and his co-writers produce a book that is a joy to read and is packed full of helpful advice.' – Chris Frost, Journalist 'You don't have to be a journalist to read this book. Anyone with an interest in improving their writing skills and developing a sense of good style will find it useful Wynford Hicks takes a no-nonsense, sleeves rolled up approach to writing which has no time for preciousness.' – Roy Johnson, Mantex 'Writing for Journalists neatly fills a gap in the market for a no-nonsense book for trainees written by trainers who genuinely understand the industry and who have moved with the times.' – Sharon Wheeler, Journalism Studies Writing for Journalists is about the craft of journalistic writing: how to put one word after another so that the reader gets the message – or the joke – goes on reading and comes back for more. It is a practical guide for all those who write for newspapers, periodicals and websites, whether students, trainees or professionals. This revised and updated edition introduces the reader to the essentials of good writing. Based on critical analysis of news stories, features and reviews from daily and weekly papers, consumer magazines, specialist trade journals and a variety of websites, Writing for Journalists includes: advice on how to start writing and how to improve and develop your style how to write a news story which is informative, concise and readable tips on feature writing from researching profiles to writing product round-ups how to structure and write reviews a new chapter on writing online copy.

Author : Angela Phillips
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1412919177

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Good Writing for Journalists by Angela Phillips Pdf

Reflective practice is at the heart of effective teaching, and this title helps you develop into a reflective teacher of science.

Author : Robert M. Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1933338385

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Journalistic Writing by Robert M. Knight Pdf

"An indispensable guide." Richard Lederer, author of The Write Way, Sleeping Dogs Don't Lay, and Comma Sense --

Author : Rick Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134369140

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Writing for Broadcast Journalists by Rick Thompson Pdf

Writing for Broadcast Journalists is the essential guide to writing news for television and radio, guiding readers through the significant differences between writing text to be read, and writing spoken English that will be heard. This book helps broadcast journalists at every stage of their careers to avoid newspaper-style ‘journalese’, clichés, jargon, and inaccurate grammar or pronunciation, while capturing the immediacy of the spoken word in creative broadcast news scripts. It also gives advice on providing concise online material for broadcasters’ websites. Sections include: • Practical advice on how to write accurately but conversationally • How to cope with a dynamic English language, with new expressions and words changing their meanings • Writing scripts that match the TV pictures, and use real sound on radio • Detailed guidance on correct terminology and the need for sensitive language • An appendix of ‘dangerous’ words and phrases to be avoided in scripts. Written in a lively and accessible style by a former BBC news editor, Writing for Broadcast Journalists is an invaluable guide to the techniques of writing news for television, radio and online audiences.

Author : Sharon Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000576696

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Feature Writing for Journalists by Sharon Wheeler Pdf

Feature Writing for Journalists considers both newspapers and magazines and helps the new or aspiring journalist to become a successful feature writer. Using examples from a wide range of papers, specialist and trade magazines and 'alternative' publications, Sharon Wheeler considers the different types of material that come under the term 'feature' including human interest pieces, restaurant reviews and advice columns. With relevant case studies as well as interviews with practitioners, Feature Writing for Journalists is exactly what you need to understand and create exciting and informative features.

Author : Dennis Jackson,John Sweeney
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781581159752

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The Journalist's Craft by Dennis Jackson,John Sweeney Pdf

This inspiring collection of 19 essays from veteran news writers explains how to weave storytelling skills into nonfiction narratives. Journalists of all backgrounds and levels of experience will discover dozens of exercises that have been tested successfully in newsrooms, workshops, and classrooms, and will cover everything from the fundamentals of reporting, writing and revising to more specialized elements like creating rhythm, cadence, and voice; employing dialogue and scene-building; and such devices as foreshadowing, symbols, and metaphors. Contributors are all veteran journalists, including Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down, and several Pulitzer Prize-winners.

Author : Martha Nichols
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000475036

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First-Person Journalism by Martha Nichols Pdf

A first-of-its-kind guide for new media times, this book provides practical, step-by-step instructions for writing first-person features, essays, and digital content. Combining journalism techniques with self-exploration and personal storytelling, First-Person Journalism is designed to help writers to develop their personal voice and establish a narrative stance. The book introduces nine elements of first-person journalism—passion, self-reporting, stance, observation, attribution, counterpoints, time travel, the mix, and impact. Two introductory chapters define first-person journalism and its value in building trust with a public now skeptical of traditional news media. The nine practice chapters that follow each focus on one first-person element, presenting a sequence of "voice lessons" with a culminating writing assignment, such as a personal trend story or an open letter. Examples are drawn from diverse nonfiction writers and journalists, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joan Didion, Helen Garner, Alex Tizon, and James Baldwin. Together, the book provides a fresh look at the craft of nonfiction, offering much-needed advice on writing with style, authority, and a unique point of view. Written with a knowledge of the rapidly changing digital media environment, First-Person Journalism is a key text for journalism and media students interested in personal nonfiction, as well as for early-career nonfiction writers looking to develop this narrative form.

Author : Bryce Telfer McIntyre
Publisher : Chinese University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9622017312

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English News Writing by Bryce Telfer McIntyre Pdf

English News Writing is a professional writer's handbook for newspaper reporters, magazine freelancers and journalism students who write in English. The focus is on writing rather than reporting. There is a thorough treatment of style, usage, and the many structures of news stories, as well as dozens of tips on how writers can improve their work. Specifically, the book includes thorough discussions of interviewing techniques, the inverted pyramid, speech coverage, feature writing, reporting on trends, reporting on public opinion polls, using social indicators to develop news stories, writing criticism, writing personality profiles, narrative styles of writing, question-and-answer stories, and the jargon of the journalism profession. Examples of news structures are annotated. The book also includes 42 Rules of Thumb that serve as a quick reference for reporters to improve their work.

Author : Crawford Gillan,Sir Harold Evans
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446412114

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Essential English for Journalists, Editors and Writers by Crawford Gillan,Sir Harold Evans Pdf

Essential English is an indispensable guide to the use of words as tools of communication. It is written primarily for journalists, yet its lessons are of immense value to all who face the problem of giving information, whether to the general public or within business, professional or social organisations. FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED BY CRAWFORD GILLAN RECOMMENDED BY THE SOCIETY OF EDITORS

Author : Walter Fox
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0813822483

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Writing the News by Walter Fox Pdf

The third edition of Writing the News continues the tradition of its predecessors by providing journalists with a clear and concise introduction to the craft of newswriting. In addition to updating and adding to the number of examples from the contemporary press, this new edition includes a section on the increasingly popular narrative form of the news feature and an expanded chapter on news style.

Author : Wynford Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135012731

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English for Journalists by Wynford Hicks Pdf

English for Journalists has established itself as an invaluable guide to the basics of English in newsrooms the world over, focusing on the essential aspects of writing, from reporting speech to the house styles and jargon central to the language of journalism. Written in a highly accessible and engaging style, English for Journalists covers the fundamentals of grammar, spelling, punctuation and journalistic writing, with all points illustrated through a series of concise and illuminating examples. The book features practical, easy to follow rules, the correct and incorrect ways to report stories, and examples of common mistakes and problem words in journalistic writing. The twentieth anniversary edition adds a new introduction to the work from author Wynford Hicks, as well as updated examples throughout to improve accessibility, and a revised first chapter on the state of English today. This is an essential guide to written English for all practicing journalists and students of journalism today.

Author : Christopher Scanlan,Richard Craig
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Journalism
ISBN : 0195336755

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Newswriting and Reporting by Christopher Scanlan,Richard Craig Pdf

Author : Doug Underwood
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780252093432

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Chronicling Trauma by Doug Underwood Pdf

To attract readers, journalists have long trafficked in the causes of trauma--crime, violence, warfare--as well as psychological profiling of deviance and aberrational personalities. Novelists, in turn, have explored these same subjects in developing their characters and by borrowing from their own traumatic life stories to shape the themes and psychological terrain of their fiction. In this book, Doug Underwood offers a conceptual and historical framework for comprehending the impact of trauma and violence in the careers and the writings of important journalist-literary figures in the United States and British Isles from the early 1700s to today. Grounded in the latest research in the fields of trauma studies, literary biography, and the history of journalism, this study draws upon the lively and sometimes breathtaking accounts of popular writers such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Graham Greene, and Truman Capote, exploring the role that trauma has played in shaping their literary works. Underwood notes that the influence of traumatic experience upon journalistic literature is being reshaped by a number of factors, including news media trends, the advance of the Internet, the changing nature of the journalism profession, the proliferation of psychoactive drugs, and journalists' greater self-awareness of the impact of trauma in their work. The most extensive scholarly examination of the role that trauma has played in the shaping of our journalistic and literary heritage, Chronicling Trauma: Journalists and Writers on Violence and Loss discusses more than a hundred writers whose works have won them fame, even at the price of their health, their families, and their lives.

Author : Ursula Smartt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000179163

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Media Law for Journalists by Ursula Smartt Pdf

This book is both an introductory text and reference guide to the main issues facing journalists today, including social media, fake news, and regulators. The text covers the law of the United Kingdom – including Scots and Northern Irish devolved legislation – as well as human rights and EU laws. This book covers essential areas such as: privacy, confidentiality, freedom of expression and media freedom, defamation, contempt of court, regulation of the print press and broadcast regulation as well as discussions on fake news and how to regulate online harm. There is a section on intellectual property law, covering mainly copyright. Court reporting and how to report on children, young people and victims of sexual offences receive particular attention in this book with relevant cases in user-friendly format. The engaging writing style is aimed to enthuse students, practitioners and lecturers with plenty of examination and practice materials. The text is packed with extensive learning aids including case studies, boxed notes, sample examination questions, appendices of statutes and cases and a glossary. It is intended as a complete course textbook for students and teachers of journalism, media, communications and PR courses, focusing on diploma courses, NCTJ examinations and broadcast journalism courses such as the BJTC. The book’s international focus would also make it ideal reading for journalists from across the world who are working in the UK. The book presumes no prior legal knowledge.