News Writing & Reporting for Today's Media - Softcover

Bruce D. Itule

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071275827 ISBN 13: 9780071275828

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2008

Synopsis

Designed for introductory news writing and reporting classes, this text focuses on real reporters in real situations. It presents up-to-date coverage of writing principles, with a wide variety of actual news stories from a variety of newspapers. The third edition includes a new chapter on multicultural reporting, expanded coverage of information gathering, and broader coverage of ethics. Its special features are as follows: it uses first-person accounts from working reporters and editors to give students a sense of the excitement of the profession and to show how concepts and principles work in real situations; it provides detailed, comprehensive discussions of the rudiments of news writing and reporting, including coverage on leads, story organization, interviewing, quotations and attribution, and qualities of good writing and gathering of information; it integrates sections on broadcast writing and discusses the differences and similarities between print and broadcast reporting and w

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Itule has been awarded the 1999 Freedom Forum Teacher of the Year award. The Freedom Forum Teacher of the Year award is awarded to three instructors annually in recognition of outstanding classroom teaching in the core areas of print and broadcast journalism instruction.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071275827
• ISBN 13: 9780071275828
• Binding: Paperback