Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method, Media Enhanced Edition (with InfoTrac) - Softcover

Carole Rich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534633331 ISBN 13: 9780534633332

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2004

Synopsis

This reviewer-praised text uses a practical coaching method to introduce students effectively to the basic skills required of a journalist -- from conceiving and researching to organizing and writing news. It emphasizes writing fundamentals and ethics in journalism. After using this motivational and engaging text, your students will be well prepared to write effectively in every news medium. This edition is enhanced with a CD-ROM that provides your students with a virtual news lab where they can put the texts concepts to practice as they write their own news stories.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0534633331
• ISBN 13: 9780534633332
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 592