The Universal Journalist

Höfundur: David Randall (Útgáfa: 6)
The Universal Journalist

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„Auðveldlega besta kynningin á starfi fréttamannsins.“ – Press Association

Þetta er eina handbókin um blaðamennsku sem er skrifuð af höfundum og ritstjórum sem hafa starfað á æðsta stigi landsfréttamiðla. Hún hefur lengi verið helsta ráðgjafarrit ungra fréttamanna. Í þessari útgáfu er kafli um samfélagsmiðla og efnið hefur verið uppfært ítarlega, meðal annars með nýju efni frá Jemma Crew, verðlaunuðum blaðamanni á landsvísu.

Í bókinni er lögð áhersla á að góð blaðamennska krefjist fjölbreyttrar færni sem geri nema í stakk búna til að starfa í atvinnugrein þar sem eignarhald, tækni og upplýsingamiðlun taka stöðugum breytingum. Handbókin hefur að geyma hagnýt ráð byggð á reynslu úr fremstu röð greinarinnar og er ómetanleg leiðsögn um almenn grundvallaratriði vandaðra vinnubragða í blaðamennsku fyrir starfandi blaðamenn og blaðamannanema um allan heim.

Nánar um bókina

Útgefandi
Pluto Press
ISBN
9780745343273
Print ISBN
9780745343259
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
6
Höfundar
David Randall
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2021-03-20
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1. Journalism in an Age of Social Media
  • Journalism and social media: the reality
  • Building your brand
  • Twitter as a news source
  • Social media and public opinion
  • How to survive being trolled
  • Coronavirus, misinformation and social media
  • Thinking time
  • Filter bubbles
  • 2. What Makes a Good Reporter?
  • Attitudes
  • Character
  • Panel: How to impress editors
  • Getting the right start
  • 3. The Limitations of Journalism
  • Owners’ priorities
  • The journalistic culture
  • Readers’ values
  • Panel: Crime reporting
  • 4. What is News?
  • What is news?
  • News values
  • News value factors
  • A sliding scale for stories
  • Beauty and news values
  • Fake news
  • A word about good news
  • 5. Where Do Good Stories Come From?
  • The habits of successful reporters
  • Getting out and about
  • News editors
  • Non-obvious sources
  • Other productive areas
  • Stories that good reporters avoid
  • Panel: Humanitarian crises
  • 6. Research
  • What you should be looking for
  • Where to get it
  • Researching online
  • Printed sources
  • Research as a foreign correspondent
  • Panel: Researching a feature
  • 7. Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You
  • Guidelines for dealing with any source
  • Official sources
  • Handling unauthorised sources
  • Unattributable sources ‘off the record’
  • 8. Questioning
  • How to approach people
  • The most useful questions in journalism
  • Questioning uneasy sources
  • Questioning elusive, evasive and hostile sources
  • Questioning by email
  • Press conferences
  • Big name interviews
  • Panel: Interviews that challenge the subject’s image
  • 9. Reporting Numbers and Statistics
  • Questioning data
  • The uses and abuses of statistics
  • Averages
  • Distribution
  • Percentages
  • Per head
  • Surveys
  • Opinion polls
  • Correlation
  • Projections
  • Real versus apparent rise
  • Probability
  • Phoney science
  • 10. Investigative Reporting
  • What is investigative reporting?
  • Productive areas to investigate
  • Investigative reporting skills
  • Computer literacy
  • How to run investigative operations
  • Going undercover
  • 11. How to Cover Major Incidents
  • Case history: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
  • How to make sure your coverage of a disaster doesn’t turn into one
  • Death tolls
  • The death call
  • Professionalism under pressure
  • Panel: Disaster reporting from multiple sources
  • 12. Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes
  • Mistakes
  • How should you respond to mistakes?
  • Great newspaper hoaxes
  • 13. Ethics
  • General guidelines
  • Grey areas
  • Privacy
  • Paying for information or an interview
  • Panel: A little ethical dilemma
  • 14. Writing News and Features
  • Planning
  • Clarity
  • Fresh language
  • Honesty
  • Precision
  • Suitability
  • Efficiency
  • Fluency
  • Revision
  • Is writing for online different to writing for papers and magazines?
  • The joys of writing
  • Panel: The writing brain
  • 15. Intros
  • How to write sharp intros
  • Hard news approach
  • Other approaches
  • A word about feature intros
  • Panel: Intros and the value of detail
  • 16. Construction and Description
  • Construction guidelines
  • Analysing story structures
  • Payoffs
  • Attribution
  • Description
  • Panel: An early lesson in description
  • 17. Handling Quotes
  • When do you use quotes?
  • Accuracy
  • Efficiency
  • Attributing quotes
  • Inventing quotes
  • 18. Different Ways to Tell a Story
  • Different approaches
  • Colour pieces
  • Backgrounders
  • Analysis
  • Vox pops
  • Shooting video
  • 19. Comment, Intentional and Otherwise
  • Comment in news stories
  • The big I
  • Analysis
  • Obituaries
  • Leaders or editorial opinion pieces
  • Columnists
  • Reviews
  • Panel: Travel writing for grown-ups
  • Panel: Obituary news reports
  • 20. How to Be a Great Reporter
  • Hard work
  • The application of intelligence
  • Intellectual courage
  • Meticulousness
  • Consuming appetite for books
  • A good knowledge of journalism’s past
  • Obsessive nature
  • Reading for Journalists
  • Index