Writing for news media : the storyteller's craft /

Writing for News Media is a down-to-earth guide on how to write news stories for online, print and broadcast audiences. It celebrates the craft of storytelling, arguing for its continued importance in a modern newsroom. With dynamism and humor, Ian Pickering, a journalist with thirty years' exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pickering, Ian (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
Subjects:	Journalism > Authorship. Storytelling in mass media. Television broadcasting of news > Handbooks, manuals, etc. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Composition & Creative Writing. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric. REFERENCE / Writing Skills.

Table of Contents:

You, the storygatherer
What is news?
Tools of the trade
Borrow from bond
Building a story
The first golden rule
The other golden rules
Headlines, quotes and pictures
Tackling different subjects
Broadcast
The non-rules of grammar.