ABSTRACT

Basic TV Reporting is a practical, easy to read guide to the skills needed to become a successful television reporter - arguably the most demanding and glamorous job in journalism. The book describes the role in detail, how reporters fit into the editorial team and where their duties begin and end.


Basic TV Reporting is a practical, easy to read guide to the skills needed to become a successful television reporter - arguably the most demanding and glamorous job in journalism. The book describes the role in detail, how reporters fit into the editorial team and where their duties begin and end.

The late Ivor Yorke has enjoyed a wealth of experience to pass on to aspiring broadcast journalists, having spent more than 20 years as a writer, reporter, producer and editor, before becoming Head of Journalist Training, BBC News and Current Affairs. He was also a freelance training consultant. He is the author of Television News (now in its third edition) and co-author with the late Bernard Hesketh of An Introduction to ENG, also published by Focal Press.

Reviews:

`This is a short, well-constructed book which is of as much value to the interviewed as to the interviewer. It is practical and down-to-earth (`keep off the gin, and stick to the tonic') and delightfully easy to read.'
British Journal of Educational Technology.

' Easy to read guide to the skills needed to become a successful TV
reporter.'
Voice of the Listener

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter |2 pages

What a Reporter Does

chapter |2 pages

A Place on the Taxi Rank

chapter |2 pages

What Makes a Good Reporter

chapter |2 pages

The Reporter as Manager

chapter |2 pages

Thinking about News

chapter |2 pages

Planning Future Coverage

chapter |2 pages

Assignment Planning

chapter |2 pages

Sources

chapter |2 pages

Seeing How It's Done (1)

chapter |2 pages

Watching Brief (2)

chapter |2 pages

Dressing the Part (1)

chapter |2 pages

Dressing the Part (2)

chapter |2 pages

Voice Production

chapter |2 pages

Speech Clarity

chapter |2 pages

A Friend in the Audience

chapter |2 pages

Good Language

chapter |2 pages

Aiming for Comprehension

chapter |2 pages

Writing to Pictures

chapter |4 pages

Using the Shot-list

chapter |2 pages

Words before Pictures

chapter |2 pages

Camera Crew Who's Who

chapter |2 pages

Part of the Team

chapter |2 pages

Camera and Sound Equipment

chapter |2 pages

Sound

chapter |2 pages

Stand-uppers

chapter |2 pages

Memory Aids

chapter |2 pages

The Art of Interviewing

chapter |2 pages

Interview Preparation

chapter |2 pages

Interview Technique

chapter |1 pages

Interview Types

chapter |1 pages

Eyewitnesses and Others

chapter |2 pages

Cutaway Questions

chapter |2 pages

Constructing a Package (1)

chapter |4 pages

Constructing a Package (2)

chapter |2 pages

On the Road

chapter |2 pages

Covering the World

chapter |2 pages

The Foreign Correspondent

chapter |2 pages

Enter the Fire Brigade

chapter |2 pages

On Foreign Soil

chapter |2 pages

Communications Satellites

chapter |1 pages

Staying Alive

chapter |1 pages

The Anchor

chapter |2 pages

In the Studio

chapter |2 pages

Perfecting Posture

chapter |2 pages

Talkback

chapter |2 pages

Presenters in Partnership

chapter |2 pages

Studio Interviewing (1)

chapter |4 pages

Studio Interviewing (2)

chapter |2 pages

Interviewee on the Attack

chapter |2 pages

Audience Participation

chapter |1 pages

Phone-ins

chapter |1 pages

When Things Go Wrong

chapter |2 pages

Last Words on Interviewing

chapter |2 pages

Documentaries

chapter |2 pages

Using Film

chapter |2 pages

Whose Bias?

chapter |7 pages

The Bounds of Good Taste

chapter |1 pages

Other Codes of Conduct

chapter |2 pages

The Oxygen of Publicity

chapter |1 pages

Investigative Journalism

chapter |1 pages

Matters of Law