News in a New Century: Reporting in an Age of Converging Media

by Jerry Lanson

Book Overview

This comprehensive book provides a wealth of exercises and assignments for teaching students reporting skills, combining successful, tried and tested techniques with an awareness of new realities and technologies in broadcast and print. The authors take the student through a writing process initiated by ideas rather than concepts of correct writing, covering: writing in different media, including the Internet; news beats; sensitivity and the diverse...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761985069
• ISBN13: 9780761985068
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Emphasis on "shoe leather" reporting

Using this text for an advanced newswriting course, I like its emphasis on "shoe leather" reporting. My entering students have learned the basics of newswriting skills but not necessarily the vigor of pursuing a story with many dimensions.A proliferation of examples produces not only sample news stories but a running account from myriad reporters portraying both their curiosity and persistance in pursuing a story.Another strength of the text is its coverage of the way reporters in different media struggle to draft a story. With students in communication classes fuzzy about where they will "land"--in print, radio, TV, or electronic reporting--the multiple viewpoints are relevant. Teaching from this highly current book, I applaud these features in each chapter:integration of law/ethical issues summary boxes exercises and assignmentsuse of databases and computer-assisted reporting