News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media

Download or read book News Writing and Reporting for Today's Media written by Bruce D. Itule and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News Writing and Reporting takes students on the beat, into the press box, council chambers, and courthouse, and to a speech and press conference. It introduces them to current issues such as cultural sensitivity, multimedia journalism, and legal and ethical considerations that journalists face every day. Throughout the text, reporters and editors offer their down-to-earth advice, and, whenever possible, professional journalists covering actual stories are used as instructional models. Students are exposed to the work of professionals while gathering the tools to follow in their footsteps.