Product Description

TV news provides the most compelling and persuasive source of information on earth. Whatever field you work in, the news affects your life. To protect yourself, more effectively tell your story, and advance your own agenda using television, you must understand the process.News professionals and students planning a career in television face a different challenge. Today's economy pressures news departments to produce more with less. You must offer greater versatility and depth of skills to keep the job you have, or get the job you want.Part One of this book details the language, style, and techniques of TV news writing, enabling you to control the flow of information, avoid creating an adversarial relationship with news media, and get your message across in your words.Part Two presents tough decisions you'll make about personal goals, family, relationships, and integrity illustrated through the author's own confrontation with those choices. He's been fired, gave away a #1 job in a top-ten market because it wasn't worth the cost, and struggled to balance career and family while learning the most important lesson of all: you carve your professional and personal life with choices.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2109851 in Books
• Published on: 2004-01-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 146 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780595302048
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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About the Author
Steve Garagiola has worked in television news for twenty-five years as a writer, producer, reporter, and anchor. He has won seven Emmy awards for his work in local news. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, and is currently a news anchor at WDIV-TV, NBC affiliate in Detroit, Michigan.

Customer Reviews

Great Advice and Storytelling
If you are interested in a career in TV news, or just want to know what really happens "behind the scenes," this is the place to start.

For would-be TV newsers, Steve's straightforward advice for skill building provides you with insights that you can't learn in school.
His storytelling style is "tell it like it is." He doesn't hold back in giving you a sense of what the newsroom life is really like.

If you grew up in the Detroit area watching Steve on TV, you will like hearing what really happened to him.