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Overview"Fully revised and updated, ""The Newspapers Handbook, Fourth Edition"" remains the essential guide to working as a newspaper journalist. It examines the ever-changing, everyday skills of newspaper reporting and explores the theoretical, ethical and political dimensions of a journalist's job. Using a range of new examples from tabloid, compact and broadsheet newspapers, non-mainstream and local publications, Richard Keeble examines key journalistic skills such as the art of interviewing, news reporting, reviewing, feature writing, using the Internet and freelancing. New chapters from John Turner, Nick Nuttall and Mark Hanna explore the specialisms of local and national government reporting, investigative journalism and covering the courts. ""The Newspapers Handbook"" includes: -Interviews with journalists about their working practices -Examples of writing from a range of recent publications. -A guide to training and career opportunities -The importance of new technologies for the newspaper industry. -An updated glossary of key terms and a revised bibliography. ""The Newspapers Handbook"" encourages a critical approach to newspaper practice, and maintains its standing as a must-have student and professional resource." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Richard Keeble (University of Lincoln, UK) , Ian Reeves (University of Kent, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 4th New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.567kg ISBN: 9780415331142ISBN 10: 0415331145 Pages: 302 Publication Date: 07 November 2005 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Replaced By: 9780415666527 Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of Contents1. Behind the Hollywood Myths: The Journalist's Job 2. Efficks, Ethics or Politics 3. Sourcing the News 4. The Art of Interviewing 5. Learning the Language of News 6. News Reporting: Beyond the Five Ws 7. Planning for the Unforeseen: Covering Transport Accidents, Fires, Demonstrations and Human Interest Stories 8. More News Assignments: Meetings, Press Conferences, Reports, Speeches and Eye-Witness Reporting 9. Powerful Information: Reporting National and Local Government 10. All Human Life: Covering the Courts 11. Investigative Reporting: The Times They are A-Changin’? 12. Feature Writing: Thinking Visually, Painting Pictures with Words 13. Some Specialist Areas: Personal Columns, Reviewing, Freelancing 14. New Technology: How Journalism Can Damage Your Health 15. On or Off the Job – or Both? Training and CareersReviews'something quite unique in its attempt to untie theroy and practice within a single volume... Keeble is doing to journalism what John Berger did to art appreciation with the aim here of developing the reflective journalist in a global world... The Newspapers Handbook will remain the definitive work because of the range, quality and depth of its content.' - Rob Melville, Journalism Practice Author InformationUniversity of Lincoln, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |