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Practical Journalism: How to Write News introduces the skills needed to become a journalist in the digital age. Easy to read, the book draws on interviews with dozens of working journalists. They share their thoughts on the profession and we watch them work – selecting stories, carrying out interviews, and writing scripts. There are chapters on interviewing, research techniques, and news writing. Further chapters cover working in broadcasting and online, media law, and ethics. Each chapter concludes with activities and a list of further reading and a glossary of terms is included at the end of the book.
The Journalist
The Journalist
Good journalists enjoy finding things out and then telling people what they have discovered. At work the journalist will
- ask the questions to which the public want answers
- persevere to find the truth of events
- be accurate and balanced when constructing the story
- present it in the clearest and most powerful way
- have an extensive network of sources.
When journalists of my generation first entered newspapers in Britain in the 1980s, there was still a suspicion of graduates among news editors. Graduates were considered soft, lacking in life experience and practical common sense and, worse still, they were seen as expecting special treatment. On my first local paper there were journalists without degrees, some with no A-levels. Journalism was seen as a craft, which was more about natural ...
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