Writing and Reporting News : A Coaching Method (with InfoTrac) (Wadsworth Series in Mass Communication and Journalism)

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An introduction for undergraduates, focusing on the latest methods for attracting readers, including the use of the Internet, graphics, basic news, and storytelling styles. Contains sections on understanding news, collecting information, constructing stories, media issues, and applying the techniques for various types of stories. This second edition includes references to online sources throughout, plus expanded material on public journalism and computer-assisted journalism, with instructions for using the Internet and spreadsheets. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


Book Description
This practical text uses a coaching method to introduce students to the basic skills required of a news reporter (covers conceiving, researching, organizing and writing the news story). It emphasizes the fundamentals as well as the emerging issues, such as technology and ethics in journalistic writing. After using this motivational and engaging text your students will be well prepared to write effectively in every news medium.


Book Info
Provides instruction on how to write compellingly for print, broadcast and online. Emphasizes the process of writing and reporting and offers tips that focus on problem anticipation and solution discovery. Softcover. DLC: Reporters and reporting.


About the Author
Carole Rich is a journalism professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she served as distinguished Atwood professor. She began her career in 1970 as a reporter specializing in education and government at the Philadelphia Bulletin. She later worked for the Fort Lauderdale News/Sun Sentinel as reporter, food editor and city editor. She also worked as deputy metropolitan editor at The Hartford Courant for two years before she began her teaching career in 1985. She taught at the University of Kansas for 10 years. Rich has been a visiting writing coach at more than a dozen newspapers and has conducted writing seminars throughout the country.


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The major change to this revised text for beginning and advanced journalism students is the addition of online coach boxes in every chapter, to help students apply their skills to Web media. Additional changes include new and revised material on the changing nature of news, computer-assisted reporting, online research, public service announcements and e-mail news releases, writing for radio, plagiarism, and online job searching. Rich teaches journalism and media studies at Hofstra U. in Long Island, NY. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)


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