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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745343259 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Publication date: | 03/20/2021 |
| Edition description: | New Edition |
| Pages: | 336 |
| Sales rank: | 758,942 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements x
Preface xi
1 Journalism in an Age of Social Media 1
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? 14
Attitudes
Character
Getting the right start
Panel: How to impress editors
3 The Limitations of Journalism 30
Owners' priorities
The journalistic culture
Readers' values
Panel: Crime reporting
4 What is News? 41
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? 55
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 70
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 85
Guidelines for dealing with any source
Officiai sources
Handling unauthorised sources
Unattributable sources 'off the record'
8 Questioning 97
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 120
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 141
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 155
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 168
Mistakes - How should you respond to mistakes?
Great newspaper hoaxes
13 Ethics 182
General guidelines
Grey areas
Privacy
Paying for information or an interview
Panel: A little ethical dilemma
14 Writing News and Features 198
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 226
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 243
Construction guidelines
Analysing story structures
Payoffs
Attribution
Description
Panel: An early lesson in description
17 Handling Quotes 261
When do you use quotes?
Accuracy
Efficiency
Attributing quotes
Inventing quotes
18 Different Ways to Tell a Story 272
Different approaches
Colour pieces
Backgrounders
Analysis
Vox pops
Shooting video
19 Comment, Intentional and Otherwise 279
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 294
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 301
Index 305