Working the Story
Subtitle: A Guide to Reporting and News Writing for Journalists and Public Relations Professionals
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780810889118
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What news is and why it's important; title: Your freedoms and how they are protected; title: How to gather information; title: How to write the basic news story; title: What you need to know about writing news; title: Ethics, objectivity, and reporter rights; title: How to write for the Internet; title: How to write for broadcast : radio and television; title: How and why to edit copy; title: How to cover speeches; title: How to cover meetings; title: How to cover education; title: How to cover universities; title: How to cover government, taxes, and political campaigns; title: How to cover business, industry, and labor; title: How to cover crime, courts, and trials; title: How to cover science, medicine, and religion; title: How to write a critical review of an art form; title: How to write a column or a blog; title: How to write feature stories; title: Freelancing and how to do it; title: How to handle the press; title: How to write in public relations; title: How to write news for the company magazine; title: How to ghostwrite a speech for your CEO; title: How and why to write the speech of introduction; title: How to get publicity for your CEO's speeches; title: How to write and deliver a briefing; title: How to plan for a convention; title: Public relations in a crisis; title: Now what?; title: Find a job; title: Appendixes.; title: Verbs of attribution and how to use them; title: Words : their definition and usage; title: Keyboard shortcuts and why to use them; title: Keyboard shortcuts for the Macintosh; title: Keyboard shortcuts for every PC; title: How to calculate percentage of change; title: Writing styles of different news media; title: Terms you should know; title: What to expect from reporters from different news media; title: Bibliography; title: About the authors