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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 40 new and published books in the subject of Media Communication — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.

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New and Published Books

  1. Audio Production Worktext

    Concepts, Techniques, and Equipment, 7th Edition

    By Samuel Sauls, Craig Stark

    Expanded to emphasize the impact media convergence has had on radio production, Audio Production Worktext, Seventh Edition provides a robust introduction to the modern radio production studio, the equipment found in that studio, and the basic techniques needed to accomplish radio production work,...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Focal Press

  2. Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing

    6th Edition

    By Frank Barnas, Ted White

    Need to know how to write and report the news? Want to know how to deliver it simultaneously for a television format, blog, Twitter, Facebook, website, and more? Broadcast News Writing, Reporting, and Producing, Sixth Edition shows you how it’s done. While retaining intensive coverage of the...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Focal Press

  3. Broadcast Announcing Worktext

    A Media Performance Guide, 4th Edition

    By Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle

    The Broadcast Announcing Worktext provides you with the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter this highly competitive field of broadcast performance. In addition to the principles of good performance, this book addresses the importance of audience and how to communicate effectively...

    Published February 7th 2013 by Focal Press

  4. Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals

    13th Edition

    Edited by August Grant, Jennifer H. Meadows

    Communication technologies surround us in every part of our lives: via television, web, blogging, mass media, and much more. How do people in business keep up with the latest and greatest trends, and how do they differentiate good information from bad information? How do they get help analyzing...

    Published July 31st 2012 by Focal Press

  5. Multimedia Foundations

    Core Concepts for Digital Design

    By Vic Costello

    Edited by Ed Youngblood, Susan Youngblood

    Understand the core concepts and skills of multimedia production and digital storytelling using text, graphics, photographs, sound, motion, and video. Then, put it all together using the skills that you have developed for effective project planning, collaboration, visual communication, and graphic...

    Published March 26th 2012 by Focal Press

  6. Portable Video

    News and Field Production, 6th Edition

    By Norman Medoff, Edward Fink

    Portable Video presents students with the techniques and technology of single camera electronic news gathering and electronic field production. Covering everything from creative and technical recording and editing techniques to budgets and copyright issues, this book shows best practices in...

    Published March 1st 2012 by Focal Press

  7. Videojournalism

    Multimedia Storytelling

    By Kenneth Kobre

    Videojournalism is a new field that has grown out of traditional print photojournalism, slideshows that combine sound and pictures, public radio, documentary filmmaking and the best of television news features. This amalgam of traditions has emerged to serve the Internet's voracious appetite for...

    Published February 1st 2012 by Focal Press

  8. Fascination

    Viewer Friendly TV Journalism

    By Nancy Graham Holm

    Developed from the established traditions of print and radio journalism, television journalism has often failed to reach its potential to develop away from these other media. However, because of the synthesis of words, pictures, and sound, television journalism has the ability to shift from simply...

    Published January 16th 2012 by Focal Press

  9. Making Media

    Foundations of Sound and Image Production, 3rd Edition

    By Jan Roberts-Breslin

    Making Media takes the media production process and deconstructs it into its most basic components. Students will learn the basic concepts of media production: frame, sound, light, time, motion, sequencing, etc., and be able to apply them to any medium they choose. They will also become well...

    Published October 9th 2011 by Focal Press

  10. Beyond Powerful Radio

    A Communicator's Guide to the Internet Age—News, Talk, Information & Personality for Broadcasting, Podcasting, Internet, Radio, 2nd Edition

    By Valerie Geller

    Beyond Powerful Radio is a complete guide to becoming a powerful broadcast communicator on radio or internet! This how-to cookbook is for broadcasters who want to learn the craft and improve. This practical and easy-to-read book, filled with bullet lists, offers techniques...

    Published May 5th 2011 by Focal Press