Writing and Reporting News You Can Use [Paperback]

Writing and Reporting News You Can Useinstructs students on how to produce news that is informative, interesting, educational, and most importantly, compelling. It addresses roadblocks to student interest in writing news, using illustrative examples and exercises to help them understand how to write news that is interesting and accurate. Trujillos hands-on approach is based on real-world strategies that deal with audience and market characteristics. Students are writing from the very beginning while also getting the ethical and legal grounding necessary to understand the field. This textbook is a complete resource for students learning broadcast news, including how to get a job after leaving the classroom.

Part One  Introduction

Part Two - The Basics

1. What is News and Where Does It Come From?

2. What do People Want from a Newscast?

3. The Rules and Regulations - Avoiding Legal Problems

4. Ethical and Moral Newswriting

5. Writing the News to Make It More Readable

6. News Judgment - How to Pick the Right Stories

7. Re-write and Then Re-write it Again

8. Types of Stories

9. Teases and Headlines

10. Enterprising Stories

11. Public Affairs News

12. Creating Series and Multi-Part Stories

13. Types of Audio and Video

14. Effective Interviewing

15. Selecting and Writing with Interview Clips

16. Adding Creative Elements to News Stories

17. Writing for Internet Usage

18. Packaging for Multi- Media

19. Social Media as a News Source