ABSTRACT

Writing and Reporting News You Can Use instructs students on how to produce news that is informative, interesting, educational, and most importantly, compelling. It addresses roadblocks to student interest in writing news, using illustrative examples and exercises to help them understand how to write news that is interesting and accurate. Trujillo’s hands-on approach is based on real-world strategies that deal with audience and market characteristics. Students are writing from the very beginning while also getting the ethical and legal grounding necessary to understand the field. This textbook is a complete resource for students learning broadcast news, including how to get a job after leaving the classroom.

part I|6 pages

Introduction

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part II|39 pages

The Basics

chapter 1|8 pages

What is News and Where Does It Come From?

chapter 2|7 pages

What Do People Want from a Newscast?

chapter 4|12 pages

Ethical and Moral Newswriting

part III|72 pages

Time to Write

chapter 6|12 pages

Writing the News

chapter 7|11 pages

Re-write and Then Re-write It Again

chapter 8|7 pages

Types of Stories

chapter 9|7 pages

Teases, Promos and Headlines

chapter 10|5 pages

Enterprising Stories

chapter 11|7 pages

Creating Series or Multi-part Stories

chapter 13|9 pages

Other Types of News

part IV|29 pages

Working with Audio and Video

chapter 14|7 pages

Types of Audio and Video

chapter 15|10 pages

Effective Interviewing

chapter 16|10 pages

Selecting and Writing with Interview Clips

part V|22 pages

Social and Multi-media News

chapter 17|7 pages

Writing for Internet Usage

chapter 18|6 pages

Packaging for Multi-media

chapter 19|7 pages

Social Media as a News Source

part VI|13 pages

Presenting the News

chapter 20|6 pages

The Right Attitude and Approach

chapter 21|5 pages

Looking Like a Pro

part VII|22 pages

Becoming a Pro

chapter 22|5 pages

The Life of a News Professional

chapter 23|6 pages

Creating and Marketing Your Demo

chapter 24|5 pages

News Tests and Interviews

chapter 25|4 pages

Making Your First Career Move

part VIII|7 pages

Conclusion

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion