Feeding the Beast: A Handbook for Television News Reporters and Photographers

by Tim Gordon and Monty Orrick

In your hands is the harvest of fifty years experience in local TV news. Throughout the book, we talk about stories, how to do them and what to avoid. We discuss the new direction of local TV news and the new economics of big media corporations. Together they are creating an undertow sweeping away longer format stories, the public education function local TV news once provided and a lot of risk taking in the stories we cover. What remains is a news...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467502847
• ISBN13: 9781467502849
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Feeding the Beast
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"