8th Edition
Broadcast Journalism Techniques of Radio and Television News
Preface. What this book is about
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 Do You Want The Job?
2 Ethics. Law. Fakes & Fabrications (biggest now – 35 pages)
3 Story types for broadcast journalism.
4 News channels, programmes and streams
5 Where News Comes From
6 Choosing and Chasing the Story
7 Setting up the Interview
8 The Interview
9 Writing Basics
10 Writing for News
11 Broadcast News Style Book
12 Putting the Show Together
13 News Anchors and Presenters
14 On Air
15 Newsreading
16 Story Treatment
17 Recording
18 Editing
19 The Studio
20 Television newsroom production
21 Writing Television News
22 Gathering television news.
23 Getting the shots
24 Editing the pictures and sound
25 Live TV reporting
26 Data, graphics and visuals
27 The television news studio and presentation
Appendix - GLOSSARY OF TERMS
Index
Biography
Peter Stewart is an award-winning broadcaster, radio consultant and author with 30 years’ experience in media. His book Essential Radio Skills (2006 and 2010) has been widely praised by BBC and commercial radio presenters and managers as being the book on how to present and produce a radio show.
Ray Alexander has more than 30 years’ experience in media management, TV, audio and online broadcast journalism and presentation. He has trained more than 5,000 journalists and presenters at the BBC in the UK and 22 other broadcasting organisations worldwide. He presented ITV Newsweek and was a Foreign Affairs and Political Correspondent. He is now a lecturer in broadcast journalism at City, University of London.
