Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook
5th EditionRobert Papper
Apr 2012, Spiralbound, 304 pagesISBN13: 9780205032273
ISBN10: 0205032273
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Updated in its 5th edition, Papper’s Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook is the first and most widely used handbook in broadcast news. This book clearly and concisely outlines the rules of broadcast news writing, reporting, grammar, style, and usage. With chapter-by-chapter coverage of story types, from business stories to crime and legal reporting, education, government, health, the environment, weather, and sports, the Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook lays out the particular demands of composition, form, style, and usage in all the diverse areas of broadcast news. Because the news business has changed -- and continues to evolve -- so has this text. Written by the person who has overseen the major industry research for the past 18 years, the latest edition looks into the future of news by exploring the business of news. Citing the latest data and trends, the book takes a hard look at where the industry stands and where it appears to be headed.
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1 The Business of News
Ratings
The Scope of Media Use
Media Use Is More Complex Than It Used to Be
It’s Hard to Measure Media Use
What We Think We Know About Media Use
What We Don’t Know About Media Use
So Where Are We Going?
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
2 News
What Is News?
Balancing News Values
Types of Stories
Where Story Ideas Come From
The Assignment Desk
The Morning and Afternoon Meetings
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
3 Readability
Broadcast News Writing
Writing for the Ear v. Writing for the Eye
Rules of Readability
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
4 Words
Keep It Simple
Keep It Conversational
Keep It Clear
Keep It Tight
Make It Powerful
Get It Right
Common Problems
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
5 Phrases and Phrasing
How to Say It
What to Say
What You Didn’t Mean to Say
Last Note
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
6 Sentences
Keep It Short
Make It Clean, Clear and Concise
Last Note
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
7 Leads and Endings
Types of Leads
Figuring out the Lead
Types of Endings
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
8 Stories
Plan and Focus
Story Logic
Story Structure
Transitions
Before You’re Done
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
9 Working with and Gathering Bites, Actualities and Natural Sound
The Feel of Natural Sound
Collecting Sound
Working with Bites, Actualities and Natural Sound
Packages
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
10 Interviewing
Conducting Successful Interviews
Beyond the Interview
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
11 Radio/Audio: Story Forms and Working with Sound
Radio Story Forms
Drawing Radio Pictures
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
12 TV: Story Forms
Story Forms
Putting Packages Together
Live Reporting
Golden Rules
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
13 TV: Working with Pictures
The Power of the Visual Image
The TV Balancing Act
Picture Cautions
Care About the Story
Strong Stories Have Central Characters and a Plot
Prove Your Story
The Element of Surprise
Connecting with Truths
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
14 Online News
Some Basic Terms and Concerns
Research and the Web
The Information Web Site
Hyperlocal News
Multimedia
3 Screen Approach to News
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
15 Social Media & News
Social Networking
The Bottom Line
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
The Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Social Media and Blogging Guidelines
16 Convergence, Cooperation & the New TV Newsroom
The New TV Newsroom
Convergence
Cooperation
Mobile
MMJ, Backpack Journalists and One-Man-Bands
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
17 Producing News on TV
Overview
Audience
Newscast Structure
Building a Local Newscast
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
Exercises
18 News, Weather & Sports
Why News, Weather & Sports?
Reporting Weather
Defining Terms
Reporting Sports
Sports and Teams
19 Reporting: Seasonal Coverage & the Calendar
Seasonal Reporting
Solar and Lunar and the World’s Major Religions
Calendar Holidays
State Holidays
20 Reporting: Specialized Coverage
The General Assignment Reporter
Business, Economy & Taxes
Crime and Legal
Education
The Environment
Geography
Government
Heath and Medicine
21 Teases and Promos
Promotion
Tease ... Don’t Tell
Make Them Care
Going Too Far
Summary
Key Words & Phrases
22 Ethics and the RTDNA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Ethics
The Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
Summary
23 TV Script Form, Supers, and Glossary
Abbreviations
Script Form
Supers
Glossary of Broadcast and Online Terms
Index
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- A series of short, easy-to-read sections provide students with a quick-reference guide to the various aspects of broadcast writing.
- A full outline and examples of virtually every broadcast news writing problem, along with solutions, prepares students for the variety of challenges that they may face in the field. (ex. p. 56)
- Tips from the pros are sprinkled throughout the book to help illustrate the various points on gathering and sorting information, writing a compelling story, collecting great soundbites, and more. (ex. p. 173)
- New and expanded coverage on social media and how it is transforming the business of news. (Ch. 15)
- Chapter 8 on Stories contains many explanations and examples, providing a more thorough and in-depth discussion of this integral part of broadcast writing. (ex. pp. 95-98)
- A full discussion on new avenues of content creation that move away from radio and television and toward the internet and mobile devices. (ex. pp. 173-179)
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