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Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Writing & editing guides > Journalistic style guides
Find yourself in the midst of a heated battle over a sitcom laugh
track. Learn to get away with spectacular crimes. Get lost with the
reindeer people in the mountains of Mongolia.
In Lost in Mongolia a collection of Tad Friend's most original,
witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from "The New Yorker,
Esquire, " and "Outside" we are taken on a cultural tour of global
proportions. Friend reports from the entertainment mecca of
Hollywood on topics that range from the life and death of River
Phoenix to the widespread plagiarism of movie ideas, to why
celebrity profiles are always dreadful. He critiques the larger
American culture with articles such as "White Trash Nation," " In
Praise of Middlebrow, " and a brief rumination on what it means
when your girlfriend steals and wears your favorite shirt. Readers
will also journey to foreign lands and American outposts, as Friend
goes on the trail of the Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, is
harassed in Morocco, and digs up buried treasure in Sun Valley.
Lost in Mongolia is a one-of-a-kind collection from a refreshingly
candid and well-traveled journalist.
The Basics of Media Writing: A Strategic Approach helps readers
develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed
to succeed in 21st-century media careers. This research-driven,
strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media
professionals think and write in journalism, public relations,
advertising, and other forms of strategic communication. Authors
Scott A. Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall have created two comprehensive
writing models to help students overcome their problems in finding
and developing story topics by giving them "starting points" to
begin writing. The Professional Strategy Triangle model shows
students how to think critically about the audience, the situation,
and the message before starting a news story or persuasive piece
and the FAJA four-point model asks students a series of questions
about their story type (Fact, Analysis, Judgment, or Action) to
guide them to the right angle or organizational structure for their
message. Rooted in classical rhetorical methods, this step-by-step
technique enables readers to strategically approach each writing
task, no matter the format.
Canadian journalist and political insider Dalton Camp left
behind a powerful legacy, including books, essays, and newspaper
columns on Canadian politics and public policy.
To both celebrate his career and continue his passionate efforts
to encourage and support the practice of journalism, St. Thomas
University has held the annual Dalton Camp Lecture in Journalism
since 2002. In cooperation with CBC Radio's "Ideas," the series has
become an annual highlight for listeners across the country.
Now, for the first time, the Dalton Camp Lectures have been
gathered together in one remarkable compilation. Commencing with
the foundational address "The Best Game in Town" by journalist and
social activist June Callwood, about her love affair with
journalism, and ending with the 2013 lecture "The Next Big Thing
Has Finally Arrived" by "New York Times" business, media, and
culture writer David Carr, the contributors collectively forecast
the future of news and the public discussion of ideas in a vastly
changing world.
Featuring contributions by Callwood and Carr as well as Nahlah
Ayed, Sue Gardner, Chantal H#&233;bert, Naomi Klein, Roy
MacGregor, Stephanie Nolen, Neil Reynolds, Joe Schlesinger, and Ken
Whyte, "The Next Big Thing" addresses the contemporary practice of
journalism like no other book.
Journalism is rapidly changing. Journalism education must too. In
Journalism Unbound, Mitchell Stephens introduces new methods of
teaching reporting and writing--for video, audio and the written
word. In lively chapters full of examples and anecdotes, he
explores a number of ways journalism might take advantage of the
current digital revolution to become less formulaic and more
engaging, searching, diverse in its concerns and relevant,
particularly to younger audiences. Although the focus is on what
journalism might be, the book employs as examples the best of what
journalism has been--from Joan Didion to Nate Silver, Edward R.
Murrow to Samantha Power, and James Baldwin to Adrian Nicole
LeBlanc.
One of the effects of digital technologies in our lives has been to
speed up the pace of everythingfrom the way we communicate with
each other to the way we receive and process news. This sense of
speed, urgency and immediacy, which was always part of news
production, has been taken almost to an extreme by digital
communication. It's no longer enough to get the facts or to be a
great reporter and writer. There are new demands in the digital
world that leave so many aspiring journalists feeling overwhelmed
and unprepared! Writing and Reporting for Digital Media proves that
as a journalist-in-training, many skills that students already
possess can be re-directed into more professional and organized
applications. Writing and Reporting for Digital Media prepares
students to: Develop the basic skills for reporting and writing for
digital media Use digital technologies, as they relate to news
gathering and multimedia production Develop storytelling skills as
they relate to digital imaging, data visualization, and
web-delivery applications Gather accurate and thorough information
for news stories for print and electronic formats Conduct
interviews in a professional and unbiased way Be an effective news
reporter, including the basics of daily beat coverage Compelling
news stories and profiles, tips, and suggestions from reporters and
media professionals give real-world insight into the life of a
journalist.
The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images
that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on
location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage
illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactively creating
narrative work about issues and subjects, translating what they
witness into handmade imagery. There is evidence that illustrations
connect to people in powerful ways whether they are drawings
created while embedded with troops in Afghanistan, documenting
during a courtroom trial or recreating the energy of the crowd at a
rock concert. This area of applied illustration also provides
career opportunities for students and takes them out of the
classroom and into different environments and situations. With
practical information about tools, techniques and coping in various
situations as well as inspirational interviews and advice from
reportage artists working in the field, this book will fill a gap
in this growing market.
What we don't know can hurt us-and does so every day. Climate
change, health care policy, weapons of mass destruction, an aging
infrastructure, stem cell research, endangered species, space
exploration-all affect our lives as citizens and human beings in
practical and profound ways. But unless we understand the science
behind these issues, we cannot make reasonable decisions-and worse,
we are susceptible to propaganda cloaked in scientific rhetoric. To
convey the facts, this book suggests, scientists must take a more
active role in making their work accessible to the media, and thus
to the public. In Am I Making Myself Clear? Cornelia Dean, a
distinguished science editor and reporter, urges scientists to
overcome their institutional reticence and let their voices be
heard beyond the forum of scholarly publication. By offering useful
hints for improving their interactions with policymakers, the
public, and her fellow journalists, Dean aims to change the
attitude of scientists who scorn the mass media as an arena where
important work is too often misrepresented or hyped. Even more
important, she seeks to convince them of the value and urgency of
communicating to the public. Am I Making Myself Clear? shows
scientists how to speak to the public, handle the media, and
describe their work to a lay audience on paper, online, and over
the airwaves. It is a book that will improve the tone and content
of debate over critical issues and will serve the interests of
science and society.
In a time of uncertainty and change in the newspaper industry, this
book provides a concise and thorough overview of the field, looking
back at newspapers' history, and forward to their future - and
insisting there will be one. The authors, former journalists who
now teach the subject, review the practices of the profession -
from defining news to examining who owns newspapers, from newspaper
readership to the new media environment. Written in an accessible
style, this comprehensive text is well suited for a range of
courses on newspapers.
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