Product Description

Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Fourth Edition examines the skills, techniques, and challenges of writing and reporting for broadcast journalism. Along with complete coverage of the fundamentals, the text presents up-to-date examples and issues through actual scripts and interviews with the people who bring us the news.

The book emphasizes real-life situations, and examines the problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors, and producers face every day. Each chapter contains exercises for writing, review, and discussion so that students can learn and apply what they've read.

This new edition contains material on embedded journalists, their preparation (journalist boot camp), including the late CNN reporter David Bloom, and their impact on the news. It includes new examples of tabloid journalism and expanded information on the state of terrorism and crime reporting today.

Ted White has been a broadcast journalist since starting his career as a copy boy for The Voice of America while in college as a journalism student. He worked for CBS, ABC, and CNN as well as other major radio and TV stations in NYC where he was a writer, reporter, editor, and producer before becoming a college professor at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

*New information on embedded journalism
*Expanded information on crime reporting
*New examples of tabloid journalism

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #321050 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 544 pages

Review
"A welcome update to the best text available on this subject."

"will use the 2nd ed for now, new chapters on C A R and tabloid are a welcome addition" -- Review

Review
"A strength of this book is the way it uses samples of reporting from well-known journalists, reproducing their scrips and using them as teaching aids." Writing Magazine

"If you aspire to work in broadcast journalism, this will teach the techniques at their most polished and professional." - Writing Magazine

From the Publisher
This text contains the most complete treatment of reporting techniques and scripts by outstanding correspondents available in a broadcast news text. Famous journalists such as Betsy Aaron, Bob Dotson, Charles Osgood, Susan Stamberg, and Richard Threlkeld not only provided scripts for the book but they also discuss how they write and report. In addition, there is an emphasis throughout on real-life situations. The problems that reporters, writers, assignment editors and producers face every day are discussed in detail.

Customer Reviews

From camera to journalist
I highly recommend this book to any upcoming or experienced journalist. It is clear, very well laid out, packed with valuable information and practical examples, and can easily be picked up at any chapter for reference. I wish I had "Broadcast News" 10years ago when I started my career in NEWS. If you're involved in television news, buy this book together with Shook & Larson's 5th edition on "Television Field Production and Reporting", both books are excellent choices! E.