News talk
Subtitle: investigating the language of journalism
By: Colleen Cotter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521819619; 9780521525657
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.
Table of contents: title: An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language; title: Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists; title: The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit; title: News values and their significance in text and practice; title: The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print; title: The interaction-based nature of journalism; title: Story design and the dictates of the "lead"; title: "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning; title: Style and standardization in news language; title: The impact of the news process on media language.