Journalism Books

Book SynopsisDigital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation discusses some of the political, regulatory and technological issues which arise from the increased power of internet intermediaries (such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and the impact of the spread of digital disinformation, especially in the midst of a health pandemic.The volume provides a detailed account of the main areas surrounding digital democracy, disinformation and fake news, freedom of expression and post-truth politics. It addresses the major theoretical and regulatory concepts of digital democracy and the ânetwork societyâ before offering potential socio-political and technological solutions to the fight against disinformation and fake news. These solutions include self-regulation, rebuttals and myth-busting, news literacy, policy recommendations, awareness and communication strategies and the potential of recent technologies such as the blockchain and public interest algorithms to counter disinformation.After addressing what has currently been done to combat disinformation and fake news, the volume argues that digital disinformation needs to be identified as a multifaceted problem, one that requires multiple approaches to resolve. Governments, regulators, think tanks, the academy and technology providers need to take more steps to better shape the next internet with as little digital disinformation as possible by means of a regional analysis. In this context, two cases concerning Russia and Ukraine are presented regarding disinformation and the ways it was handled.Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students and researchers within the social sciences, computer science, law and business studies, as well as policy makers engaged in combating what constitutes one of the most pressing issues of the digital age.Trade Review‘This is a wide-ranging book which gives valuable insights on emerging contemporary debates on digital democracy, social media and disinformation. The authors have dug deep into the underlying theories while never ignoring everyday empirical evidence. They engage with issues of policy and regulation which are now under scrutiny in democracies around the world. Their analysis is up to date, noting the impact of the digital platforms on disinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a necessary and timely text.’Professor Leighton Andrews, Cardiff Business School, UK‘The urgency of critical analysis of misinformation and fake news has become even more apparent in the context of COVID-19. Iosifidis and Nicoli offer a very nuanced analysis of this phenomenon from a socio-political perspective, recognising that the circulation of misinformation and conspiracy theories online is not simply a supply-side product of digital affordances, but is grounded in social phenomena such as the rise of populism. They are very much attuned to policy and regulatory issues, as well as technological options, that can address these urgent contemporary challenges.’Professor Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology, Australia‘This book could not be more timely or relevant to the contemporary struggles with the effects of disinformation on society. The book explores why and how it poses dangers to democratic society and offers and reviews concrete solutions to them.’Professor Robert G. Picard, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction SECTION I: MARKET TRENDS, INTERNET INTERMEDIARIES AND THEORIES 2. Democracy, Public Sphere and Citizenship in a Network Society 3. Social Media, Populism and Regulatory Action SECTION II: THE CURRENT STATE OF ART OF DIGITAL DISINFORMATION 4. Digital Disinformation and Ways of Addressing It 5. European Policy Strategies in Combating Digital Disinformation SECTION III: COUNTRY CASES AND DIGITAL DISINFORMATION 6. Russia and Digital Disinformation 7. Ukraine and Digital Democracy 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThoroughly revised and updated, the fourth edition of Writing for Journalists focuses on the craft of journalistic writing, offering invaluable insight on how to hook readers and keep them to the end of your article.The book offers a systematic approach to news and feature writing that starts with the basics and builds to more complex and longer pieces. The authors give the reader the tools they need to deliver engaging and authoritative writing that works across print and digital. Drawing on professional insight from writers across the industry, the book guides readers through the essential elements needed to write powerful and effective news stories, from hard news pieces to features on business, science, travel and entertainment reviews. New to this edition are hands-on writing exercises accompanying each chapter to help reinforce key points; chapters on how to build a professional profile, pitch stories and get commissioned; and a section on online writing, SEO, anTrade Review"This is an outstanding practical introduction to writing for journalists of all kinds - news, features, print, online. Starting with first principles, it buildsability through exercises at each stage and a structured progression to more complex issues like interviews, data, science and business. With contributions from leading journalism teachers and professional journalists it is a timely update of previous introductions taking full account of the digital transition in newsrooms and the expectations from employers of multimedia competence. At a time when journalists are under scrutiny for their professionalism and high standards are at a premium it offers an excellent introduction to key skills for those entering the business." Richard Sambrook, Professor of Journalism and Director of the Centre for Journalism at Cardiff Univeristy, formerly Director of Global News at the BBC"In the summer of 2018, when we, a group of mainly print and TV journalists at The Telegraph India and other brands of India’s top media group ABP were struggling to adjust to a native digital newsroom, Matt came to our rescue. His clear vision of how to approach a multimedia story was immensely beneficial. This book is an extension of those practical tips. A much needed book for both journalists and journalism educators. I have used many of Matt’s tips like how to approach a feature, decide on multimedia content among others in my class and my students found them interesting. The real-life examples and exercises through out the book adds much value to it. It also covers a wide spectrum of journalistic writing which sets the principles of journalism straight." Sambit Pal, Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Mass Communications, formerly journalist at The Telegraph India"Early in my career I would have loved to be able to draw on the diverse, rigorous advice you’ll find in these pages, and even now I found so much in here to challenge and encourage." Peter Grunert, Group Editor, Magazines for Lonely PlanetTable of Contents1. How to read like a journalistHow purposeful reading can develop your journalistic instinct and sharpen your writing2. The news introUnderstand news values and learn how to construct a compelling opening paragraph3. The first three paragraphsA fail-safe formula to write the opening three paragraphs to any news story4. News structure and styleHow to structure longer news pieces and deal with more complex stories in style5. Writing for the webHow to write for online; understand analytics and SEO and make social media work for youGavin Allen6. Developing feature ideas Understand your readers and learn how to develop news-driven feature ideas they will want to read7. Starting your featureWhy ‘Showing, Telling and Quoting’ are a writer’s building blocks and the key to dynamic intros 8. Structure and quotes How to use quotes and understand the three interviewee types essential to your writing9. Storytelling and travel writingDiscover what storytelling does to your brain and how to use that in any piece of writing10. Interview features Professional writers explain how to research, structure and write the perfect interview 11. Writing reviewsHow to write reviews on anything from literature and the arts to bicycles and fast carsHarriett Gilbert12. Making complex ideas accessible Business and science journalists explain how to make complex stories accessible to allMatt Swaine, Aiden O'Donnell and Nigel Stephenson13. Boxouts, design and multimedia How to write boxouts and plan multimedia content to deliver strong feature packages14. The professional writerBuild your professional profile, hit deadlines, edit your work and develop a unique voiceGlossaryKey terms you may come across in the world of journalismRecommended readingBooks on journalism, politics, business, science and the environment and Twitter lists to followSuggested answersAppendix with answers to exercises in chapters 2, 3 and 5Index

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Book SynopsisMapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms and Beyond assesses citizen journalism within the context of hyperlocals, non-profits and large global news organizations, critically examining various forms of participation by citizen contributors to the news. The essays included within the book answer questions such as: Does citizen journalism close the news participation gap between the Global North and South? How can citizen journalism enable the socially excluded to overcome marginalization? What are the obligations of professional news outlets to citizen reporters in war zones? Furthermore, some contributors critique the ways traditional journalism makes use of non-professional content, while others propose new analytical frameworks such as reciprocal journalism, connective journalism and the Appropriation/Amplification Model. The book also investigates efforts to teach ordinary people journalism skills in Europe, the Middle East and both North and South America. Some of the programs scrutinized here instill under-represented groups with semi-professional news values. Other projects support citizen journalism infused with activism such as the photographers of the favela-based jornalismo popular or the volunteer digital humanitarians covering global crises and, in doing so, demonstrate new ways to respond to the rise of grassroots participation in the production of news. The chapters in this book were originally published as special issues of Journalism Practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction, 1. How participation is practiced by in-betweeners of journalism 2. Reciprocity and the hyper-local journalist 3.The social reporter in action; an analysis of the practice and discourse of Andy Carvin 4. Looking after Ibrahim; how journalists network, develop and safeguard relationships with citizen journalists and activists in Syria 5. Digital humanitarians; citizen journalists on the virtual front line of natural and human-caused disasters 6. Constructing cholera; CNN iReport, the Haitian cholera epidemic and the limits of citizen journalism 7. The Appropriation/Amplification Model of Citizen Journalism; an account of structural limitations and the political economy of participatory content creation 8. Citizen journalism at the margins 9. "Shared Photography"; (Photo)journalism and political mobilisation in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas 10. Helping Syrians tell their story to the world; training Syrian citizen journalists through connective journalism 11. Citizen health journalism; negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers 12. From audience to reporter; recruiting and training community members at a participatory news site serving a multiethnic city 13. Training or improvisation? citizen journalists and their educational backgrounds—a comparative view

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Book SynopsisJournalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; analyses the deteriorating right to know and freedom of expression frameworks; and explores solutions and reforms.The book discusses key Australian and international source protection ethics rules, statutes, court cases, law enforcement actions, and case studies. It highlights weakness in journalistsâ professional practice codes governing confidentiality obligations; discusses inadequate journalistic appreciation of the importance of establishing clear terms and conditions underpinning confidentiality obligations; and identifies shortcomings in the law governing source protection. The book argues that despite source protection being widely recognised as an important ideal, source protection is under sustained assauTable of ContentsPart 1: Overview 1. Journalists and their confidential sources 2. Free societies and the struggle for freedom of communication Part 2: Ethics Codes And Law 3. Journalist-source confidentiality and professional practice codes 4. Journalist-source confidentiality and the law Part 3: Terminology, Minefield, Balancing Interests, Reforms 5. Threshold matters 6. The anonymous sources minefield 7. Balancing competing interests 8. Contemplating the way forward Part 4: Conclusion 9. The way ahead

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry.In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work haTrade Review"Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture."Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University."Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture."Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Global Precarity’s Uneven Impacts on Journalism: Linda Steiner and Kalyani ChadhaPart I: THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL and ECONOMIC CONTEXT: Kalyani Chadha and Linda Steiner: Precarity: The Concept, Evolution, Forms and Applications John Nerone: The Labor History of Newswork from Industrialization to the Digital Age Krishnan Vasudevan: Dead on Arrival: Deadspin’s Fight with its Private Equity Owner and The Rise of Defector Part II: APPLICATIONS TO JOURNALISM SPECIALIZATIONS AND INNOVATIONS. Carey L. Higgins-Dobney: Producing in precarity: A Focus on Freelancing in U.S. Local Television Newsrooms Lindsay Palmer: The Precarious Labor of Freelance War Correspondents Cherian George: "All the news that’s fit to print. Except for cartoons. Those things are scary" Karin Wahl-Jorgensen: Precarity in Community Journalism Start-Ups: The Deep Story of Sacrifice Sofie Willemsen and Tamara Witschge: "Becoming Real": Professional Precarity in Entrepreneurial Journalism Part III: Regional and National Particularities Adriana Amado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez and Silvio Waisbord: Labor Precarity and Gig Journalism in Latin America Harry Dugmore: Endogenous "Precarious Professionalism" in African Newswork Mirjam Gollmitzer: Alleviating or Exacerbating Precarity? How Freelancers in Germany and Canada Experience Policies Regulating Insecure Journalistic labor PART IV: RESISTANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY Erwin van ‘t Hof and Mark Deuze: Making Precarity Productive Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter: Collectively Confronting Journalists’ Precarity through Unionization Verica Rupar: The Responsibilities of Journalism Educators

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together leading scholars from around the world to discuss the consequences and implications of precarious labor conditions within the modern news industry.In 14 original chapters, contributors address global concerns in journalism across all platforms, based on the assumption that unstable employment conditions affect the extent to which journalists can continue to play their historically crucial role in sustaining democracies. Topics discussed include work conditions for freelancers and entrepreneurial journalists as well as the risks facing conflict reporters, precarity in media start-ups, unionization and other collective efforts, policies regulating journalistic labor around the world, and the impact of hedge fund money on newswork. Drawing on case studies and data from South America, Africa, the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, the book highlights how media outlets are forcing newsworkers to work haTrade Review"Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture."Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University."Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture."Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsIntroduction: Global Precarity’s Uneven Impacts on Journalism: Linda Steiner and Kalyani ChadhaPart I: THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL and ECONOMIC CONTEXT: Kalyani Chadha and Linda Steiner: Precarity: The Concept, Evolution, Forms and Applications John Nerone: The Labor History of Newswork from Industrialization to the Digital Age Krishnan Vasudevan: Dead on Arrival: Deadspin’s Fight with its Private Equity Owner and The Rise of Defector Part II: APPLICATIONS TO JOURNALISM SPECIALIZATIONS AND INNOVATIONS. Carey L. Higgins-Dobney: Producing in precarity: A Focus on Freelancing in U.S. Local Television Newsrooms Lindsay Palmer: The Precarious Labor of Freelance War Correspondents Cherian George: "All the news that’s fit to print. Except for cartoons. Those things are scary" Karin Wahl-Jorgensen: Precarity in Community Journalism Start-Ups: The Deep Story of Sacrifice Sofie Willemsen and Tamara Witschge: "Becoming Real": Professional Precarity in Entrepreneurial Journalism Part III: Regional and National Particularities Adriana Amado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez and Silvio Waisbord: Labor Precarity and Gig Journalism in Latin America Harry Dugmore: Endogenous "Precarious Professionalism" in African Newswork Mirjam Gollmitzer: Alleviating or Exacerbating Precarity? How Freelancers in Germany and Canada Experience Policies Regulating Insecure Journalistic labor PART IV: RESISTANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY Erwin van ‘t Hof and Mark Deuze: Making Precarity Productive Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter: Collectively Confronting Journalists’ Precarity through Unionization Verica Rupar: The Responsibilities of Journalism Educators

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Book SynopsisThis book examines media psychology as a field of study and provides a fundamental understanding of its emergence and application. It covers various key themes such as consumer behavior, mass media and advertising, media and culture, media messages and their effects on individual and group behavior in the Indian context. It highlights the role of media psychology with reference to citizenship and pedagogy and studies the emerging concept of digital altruism. The author also discusses various research methods used in this field that help to objectively evaluate the impact of mass media messages on people and people's effect on the functioning of mass media. This comprehensive book will be useful to students and researchers of psychology, media psychology, mass-communication, consumer behavior, digital marketing, corporate communication, and media studies.Table of Contents1. Introduction to media psychology 2. Consumer behavior and psychology 3. Research methods 4. Media and society 5. Media and culture 6. Media and advertising 7. Media messages 8. Media effects 9. Critical issues in media psychology

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Book SynopsisThis book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC's international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing truths' in the exacting business of news reporting.Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking Truth in International TV News asks if China's English-language television news programmes are little more than state propaganda, and if the BBC can be viewed as a universal news standard to which all other broadcasters should aspire. Over 8 years of Xi Jinping's rule, it investigates how the international TV news channels of CGTN and the BBC reported on Chinese politics, protests in Hong Kong, disasters, China in Africa, and insurgency and its suppression in Xinjiang. The comparison reveals uneven editorial imperatives at the Chinese broadcaster and raises questions about the BBC's professed tenets of balance and impartiality. It also illustrates how Chinese journalists commit small acts of journalism' that pushTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; 1. A Battle for Global Influence; Everything Comes from Somewhere; Going Global; Contested Concepts: Soft Power; Contested Concepts: Impartiality and Balance; Contested Concepts: Propaganda; The Power of the Individual; The Ritual of International News; Chapter Overviews; 2. Seeking ‘Truth’ from Facts; A Tale of Two News Channels; CCTV in English 1986-2010; CCTV-News 2010-2016; CGTN in English 2017–; BBC World Service Television News 1991-1995; BBC World and BBC World News 1995–; Into Africa, the Americas and Europe; Fractured Worlds; Comparing the News; Categorising the Reporting; Precisions and Limitations; 3. Telling China’s Story Well; Getting the Story Straight; Two Caged Tigers: The Bo and Zhou Trials; China and its Place in the World; Lunar New Year; The ‘Two Sessions’ Political Meetings; Covering (the Rest of) China; Whose China Story?; 4. Responding to Disaster; The Bearers of Bad News; The 2015 Yangtze Capsize; The 2019 Jiangsu Explosion; Yangtze to Jiangsu: What Changed?; 5. Covering Political Unrest; One Region, Two Narratives; The 2014 Hong Kong ‘Umbrella’ Protests; The 2019 Hong Kong Extradition Bill Crisis; CGTN’s New Voice; Media Wars; ‘Small Acts of Journalism’?; Strengthening Frames; 6. Redefining African News; China’s News for Africa: Experiment or Expedient?; Changing Africa’s Media Image; Comparisons in Figures; Comparisons in Framing; China in Africa; Which Journalism, and for Whom?; The African Exception; 7. Islam, ‘Terror’ and National Identity; Enemies Without and Within; Two Stories of Xinjiang, 2018-2021; Seeking Facts: The 2014 Attacks; Defining Terrorism; 2015: The Case of Charlie Hebdo; Manufacturing Context; 8. A Trojan Dragon and its Achilles Heel; The Battle for Discourse Power; Seeking Answers: News Content; Seeking Answers: Power and Partiality; Sharp Power, Blunt Weapon; The Achilles Heel; The Imperilled Centenarian; The Casualty of Truths; Never Again ‘News From Nowhere’; Appendices; Index

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Book SynopsisIn this sixth edition of Television Sports Production, regional Emmy Award-winning producer Jim Owens walks readers through the planning, setup, directing, announcing, shooting, and editing involved in covering a sports event.Originally written as a training guide for entry-level broadcast staff at the Olympics, this manual gives readers the tools they need to effectively cover sports from ice skating to motorcycle racing. Throughout, Owens breaks down all aspects of the production process, revealing the techniques that producers and directors use to bring sports to a worldwide audience. Chapters further include tips and advice on using the latest technologies and tools such as production trucks, REMIs, smart phones, mobile units, cameras, audio equipment, and lighting rigs. Featuring new instructive illustrations and sample forms, as well as testimonials from experienced professionals in the business, this new edition gives readers an inside look at how the expTrade ReviewPraise for Television Sports Production, 5th Edition"Quite simply, no one person knows more about how to teach sports television production than Jim Owens. With nine Olympic broadcasts under his belt, including the training of students that worked at six Olympics, Jim is unique in both his knowledge of professional television sports production and how to teach students the skills and techniques necessary for them to be a successful part of any sports production."--Michael Silbergleid, former Editor, Television Broadcast Magazine"It’s the best information reference on television sports production that I have ever seen! It is a book that really cuts to the essence of what television sports production is really about."--Brian Douglas, Television Producer/Director, Head of Olympic Production for Salt Lake, Torino and Vancouver Olympics"A sports production book for seasoned professionals and newcomers alike with detailed information, diagrams and charts covering diverse areas of expertise all in a single volume. In a condensed format, a wide body of knowledge is at your disposal."--Joseph Maar, Vice President of Programming & Production, NESN"This is not only the definitive text on remote television sports production, but Jim Owens brings the unique perspective of vast personal experience gained working at live remotes."--Ben Brown, Partner, Event Support Services"Jim Owens offers a unique perspective as an educator and an author. He explains the language of broadcast jargon and technical terms in simple language that draws the reader into the fascinating world of sports television. His unique access to television professionals has allowed him to compile an encyclopedia of relevant information."--Dennis Baxter, Four-time Emmy Award winner in audio for CBS and NBC SportsPraise for Television Sports Production, 5th Edition"Quite simply, no one person knows more about how to teach sports television production than Jim Owens. With nine Olympic broadcasts under his belt, including the training of students that worked at six Olympic Games, Jim is unique in both his knowledge of professional television sports production and how to teach students the skills and techniques necessary for them to be a successful part of any sports production."--Michael Silbergleid, Former Editor, Television Broadcast Magazine"It’s the best information reference on television sports production that I have ever seen! It is a book that really cuts to the essence of what television sports production is really about."--Brian Douglas, Television Producer/Director, Head of Olympic Production for Salt Lake, Torino and Vancouver Olympics"A sports production book for seasoned professionals and newcomers alike with detailed information, diagrams, and charts covering diverse areas of expertise all in a single volume. In a condensed format, a wide body of knowledge is at your disposal."--Joseph Maar, Vice President of Programming & Production, NESN"This is not only the definitive text on remote television sports production, but Jim Owens brings the unique perspective of vast personal experience gained working at live remotes."--Ben Brown, Partner, Event Support Services"Jim Owens offers a unique perspective as an educator and an author. He explains the language of broadcast jargon and technical terms in simple language that draws the reader into the fascinating world of sports television. His unique access to television professionals has allowed him to compile an encyclopedia of relevant information."--Dennis Baxter, Four-time Emmy Award winner in audio for CBS and NBC SportsTable of ContentsForewordIntroductionAcknowledgments PrefacePart 1: Introduction To Remote ProductionChapter 1: What is Remote Production?Chapter 2: Television Sports PersonnelChapter 3: What is Television?Chapter 4: Production FacilitiesPart 2: PlanningChapter 5: Planning the ProductionChapter 6: CamerasChapter 7: LightingChapter 8: Audio ProductionChapter 9: Design: Graphics and SetsChapter 10: Preproduction and Setup Part 3: Creating the ProductionChapter 11: The ProductionChapter 12: Directing: Telling the StoryChapter 13: Sports AnnouncingChapter 14: PostproductionChapter 15: Production SafetyChapter 16: Budgeting for the RemoteAppendix I: Truck DiagramsAppendix II: Camera Placement DiagramsAppendix III: Microphone DiagramsAppendix IV: Production Support DocumentsAppendix V: Event StoryboardsAppendix VI: Sports Announcing ArticleGlossaryRecommended ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the growing importance of algorithms and automationincluding emerging forms of artificial intelligencein the gathering, composition, and distribution of news. In it the authors connect a long line of research on journalism and computation with scholarly and professional terrain yet to be explored. Taken as a whole, these chapters share some of the noble ambitions of the pioneering publications on reporting algorithms', such as a desire to see computing help journalists in their watchdog role by holding power to account. However, they also go further, firstly by addressing the fuller range of technologies that computational journalism now consists of: from chatbots and recommender systems to artificial intelligence and atomised journalism. Secondly, they advance the literature by demonstrating the increased variety of uses for these technologies, including engaging underserved audiences, selling subscriptions, and recombining and re-using content. Thirdly, tTable of Contents1. Algorithms, Automation, and News Neil Thurman, Seth C. Lewis and Jessica Kunert2. On the Democratic Role of News Recommenders Natali Helberger3. Newsbots That Mediate Journalist and Audience Relationships Heather Ford and Jonathon Hutchinson4. Public Service Chatbots: Automating Conversation with BBC News Bronwyn Jones and Rhianne Jones5. Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News MediaBalázs Bodó6. Making Artificial Intelligence Work for Investigative Journalism Jonathan Stray7. Human Still in the Loop. Editors Reconsider the Ideals of Professional Journalism Through Automation Marko Milosavljević and Igor Vobič8. News Algorithms, Photojournalism and the Assumption of Mechanical Objectivity in Journalism Matt Carlson9. Structured Journalism and the Semantic Units of News David Caswell10. Atomising the News: The (In)Flexibility of Structured Journalism Rhianne Jones and Bronwyn Jones11. Towards a Design Orientation on Algorithms and Automation in News Production Nicholas Diakopoulos12. Prioritizing the Audience’s View of Automation in Journalism Andrea L. Guzman

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a study of Theophile Gautier''s art journalism written during the Second Republic and provides a reassessment of Gautier''s importance in French nineteenth-century visual culture. It charts his response to the major art events and debates on Salons.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Gautier Then and Now 1. Orator to the Artists: Gautier and Pradier in 1848 2. The 'Detestable' Salon of 1848 3. Competitions, Commissions, and the Return of Ingres 4. The Salon of 1849: 'La premiere exposition de la Republique' 5. N'oubliez pas le guide': The 'Etudes sur les musees' of 1849–1850 6. Breaking Ranks at the Salon of 1850–1851 7. Conclusion: Beyond Description

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Book SynopsisMedia coverage of climate change has attracted much scholarly attention because the extent of such coverage has an agenda-setting effect and because the ways in which the coverage is framed can influence public perception of and engagement with the issue. However, certain gaps in our understanding of the processes whereby such coverage is produced remain. The competition among strategic actors to influence media framing strategies is poorly understood, and the perspectives of journalists and editors are largely absent from literature. With a view to advancing our understanding of the frame competition around climate change and to presenting the perspectives of journalists regarding climate change as a journalistic topic, this book presents an in-depth case history of media coverage of climate change in Ireland. First, the extent of media attention for climate change is established, and the way in which such coverage is framed is also examined. Through a series of interviews, includiTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesForeword Introduction Climate change as a complex social problem The media and climate change Media coverage of climate change in Ireland Ministers, handlers and hacks Communicating climate change in a new media environment Index

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Book SynopsisCorpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias presents research combining a range of corpus-linguistic techniques which are employed to analyse how migration discourse is (re)constructed in the contemporary British press. Two specialised corpora containing 1,000 news reports, editorials, and opinion pieces from five major national British newspapers were collected and annotated for this research. The event separating these two corpora is the 2016 referendum on Britain's membership of the European Union (EU). In its analysis, this book: employs both quantitative and qualitative analytical methods, with four case studies offering a broad perspective on how the topical socio-political issues of migration and asylum seeking are represented by left- and right-wing British newspapers; explores how newspapers reveal their political orientation and promote their political agenda by employing specific linguistic patterns and discursive strategies in thisTable of Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables Introduction: Language Corpora and Media Discourse on Migration Chapter 1: Ideology in the Contemporary Media: Bias in the British Press Chapter 2: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: Data Collection and Corpus Construction Chapter 3: Discursive Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants, and Migrants (RASIM) Prior to the EU Referendum Chapter 4: Discursive Representations of Migrants after the EU Referendum Chapter 5: The English Garden: A Metaphor for English Society Chapter 6: The Metaphorical Motif of War in the British Press Conclusion: Principles of Cohesion and Evaluation in Newspaper Texts Appendix

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation. The contributors analyse the role, practice and impact of journalistic translation in Canada, China, Arab countries, France, Spain, the Ukraine, Finland and Serbia.The introductory chapter surveys the evolution of journalistic translation research during the period 2015-2020. The chapters that follow delve into the role of language and translation in news production with a specific focus on the connections with politics and power. The authors analyse Canadian newspapers in French and English during the subprime crises, the representation of Muslims in three European newspapers in the aftermath of Nice terrorist attacks, the translation of Donald Trumpsâ tweets in Spain, the role of evaluation in opinion articles in the Ukraine, the use of reported speech in Finnish articles, the translation of Donald Trumpâs offensive comments into Arabic and so on. In the discussions, the authors draw on functional grammar, critical discourse analysis, Appraisal theory and pragmatics. This volume will appeal to all those interested in the ways translation shapes media constructions of news events and showcases the centrality of journalistic translation research as a dynamic subfield within translation studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Journalistic translation research goes global: theoretical and methodological considerations five years onRoberto A. Valdeón1. The translation of ‘transparency’ in the Canadian press: an inquiry into symbolic powerPier-Pascale Boulanger and Chantal Gagnon2. The role of stylistic features in constructing representations of Muslims and France in English online news about terrorism in FranceAshley Riggs3. The translation of tweets in Spanish digital newspapersMaría José Hernández Guerrero4. Evaluation in translation: a case study of Ukrainian opinion articlesAngela Kamyanets5. (Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: a corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)Chonglong Gu and Rebecca Tipton6. Politeness strategies in translating Donald Trump's offensive language into ArabicHaneen Abudayeh and Barkuzar Dubbati7. Instances of translatorial action: a journalist as a translating reporter of speechNina Havumetsä8. Translation in Serbian media discourse: the discursive strategy of argumentation as an adaptation techniqueJasmina P. Đorđević

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a variety of theoretical concepts and methods, this book addresses the interface between language, politics and translation. The contributors analyse the role, practice and impact of journalistic translation in Canada, China, Arab countries, France, Spain, the Ukraine, Finland and Serbia.The introductory chapter surveys the evolution of journalistic translation research during the period 2015-2020. The chapters that follow delve into the role of language and translation in news production with a specific focus on the connections with politics and power. The authors analyse Canadian newspapers in French and English during the subprime crises, the representation of Muslims in three European newspapers in the aftermath of Nice terrorist attacks, the translation of Donald Trumps' tweets in Spain, the role of evaluation in opinion articles in the Ukraine, the use of reported speech in Finnish articles, the translation of Donald Trump's offensive comments into Arabic andTable of ContentsIntroduction: Journalistic translation research goes global: theoretical and methodological considerations five years onRoberto A. Valdeón1. The translation of ‘transparency’ in the Canadian press: an inquiry into symbolic powerPier-Pascale Boulanger and Chantal Gagnon2. The role of stylistic features in constructing representations of Muslims and France in English online news about terrorism in FranceAshley Riggs3. The translation of tweets in Spanish digital newspapersMaría José Hernández Guerrero4. Evaluation in translation: a case study of Ukrainian opinion articlesAngela Kamyanets5. (Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: a corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)Chonglong Gu and Rebecca Tipton6. Politeness strategies in translating Donald Trump's offensive language into ArabicHaneen Abudayeh and Barkuzar Dubbati7. Instances of translatorial action: a journalist as a translating reporter of speechNina Havumetsä8. Translation in Serbian media discourse: the discursive strategy of argumentation as an adaptation techniqueJasmina P. Đorđević

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Book SynopsisCoronavirus News, Markets and AI explores the analysis of unstructured data from coronavirus-related news and the underlying sentiment during its real-time impact on the world and on global financial markets, in particular. In an age where information - both real and fake - travels in the blink of an eye and significantly alters market sentiment daily, this book is a blow by blow account of economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.The volume:   Details how AI driven machines capture, analyse and score relevant on-ground news sentiment to analyse the dynamics of market sentiment, how markets react to good or bad news across short term' and long term'; Investigates what have been the most prevalent news sentiment during the pandemic, and its linkages to crude oil prices, high profile cases, impact of local news, and even the impact of Trump's policies; Discusses the impact on what people think and discuss, how the COVID-19 crisTable of Contents About this book. Introduction. Part I: The Method 1. How to Read this Book? 2. Reading Coronavirus News 3. Sentiment Analysis, Big Data and AI 4. Unstructured Data. How to tame the beast? Part II: The Results 5. Ebbing in May. ‘Are we celebrating too early?’ 6. The Deadly April. ‘Blame Game and Search for a Coronavirus Vaccine’ 7. Coronavirus goes Global in March. ‘Oops…It is getting serious’ 8. Build-up in February. ‘Come on, Don’t worry too much’ Part III: The Samples 9. Politics, Conspiracy Theories and Religion 10. Coronavirus Pandemic’s Economic Impact 11. Disease, Devastation and Hope 12. The Human Nature and Impact on Normal Life 13. Bizarre, Funny and Fake News Part IV: The Inference 14. Country Sentiment for Coronavirus News 15. COVID-19 has turned the world upside down 16. What is seen more often in Coronavirus News? 17. How do we use Sentiment Analysis. Case Study 18. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisJournalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; analyses the deteriorating right to know and freedom of expression frameworks; and explores solutions and reforms.The book discusses key Australian and international source protection ethics rules, statutes, court cases, law enforcement actions, and case studies. It highlights weakness in journalists' professional practice codes governing confidentiality obligations; discusses inadequate journalistic appreciation of the importance of establishing clear terms and conditions underpinning confidentiality obligations; and identifies shortcomings in the law governing source protection. The book argues that despite source protection being widely recognised as an important ideal, source protection is under sustaineTable of ContentsPart 1: Overview 1. Journalists and their confidential sources 2. Free societies and the struggle for freedom of communication Part 2: Ethics Codes And Law 3. Journalist-source confidentiality and professional practice codes 4. Journalist-source confidentiality and the law Part 3: Terminology, Minefield, Balancing Interests, Reforms 5. Threshold matters 6. The anonymous sources minefield 7. Balancing competing interests 8. Contemplating the way forward Part 4: Conclusion 9. The way ahead

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses femicide in Italy, and the cultural conversations that have resulted from feminist discourse on lethal violence against women entering the mainstream, by analyzing journalistic inquiries and literary works produced after 2012. In a global and national context where activism's goals are mainly discursive this study deepens our understanding of the role played by written narratives in the critique of a public interest matter such as gender-based violence. The first part of the book is dedicated to the analysis of three journalistic inquiries published in book format that focus on one or more cases of femicide that happened on the Italian peninsula. The second section draws on the concept of feminist rewriting to propose the analysis of a heterogeneous body of literary texts that explore some of the most controversial and notorious femicide cases covered by previous journalistic, historical, or mythical narratives, before demonstrating the close connection beTable of ContentsIntroduction: Femminicidio in Italy and the Ethics of Its Representation 1. Beyond the Principle of Objective Narrative 2. Il sangue delle donne (2014) by Alvaro Fiorucci 3. Se questi sono gli uomini (2012) by Riccardo Iacona 4. Quello che resta (2014) by Serena Maiorana 5. Between Fiction and Non-Fiction. Femicide in Italian Literature 6. Re-Writing Journalistic Narratives. Fiore… come me (2013) by Giuliana Covella and Nessuna più (2013), edited by Marilù Oliva 7. Re-Writing History. La scuola cattolica (2016) by Edoardo Albinati 8. Re-Writing the Myth. Padreterno (2015) by Caterina Serra Conclusions

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Book Synopsis A first-of-its-kind guide for new media times, this book provides practical, step-by-step instructions for writing first-person features, essays, and digital content. Combining journalism techniques with self-exploration and personal storytelling, First-Person Journalism is designed to help writers to develop their personal voice and establish a narrative stance. The book introduces nine elements of first-person journalismpassion, self-reporting, stance, observation, attribution, counterpoints, time travel, the mix, and impact. Two introductory chapters define first-person journalism and its value in building trust with a public now skeptical of traditional news media. The nine practice chapters that follow each focus on one first-person element, presenting a sequence of voice lessons with a culminating writing assignment, such as a personal trend story or an open letter. Examples are drawn from diverse nonfiction writers and journalTable of ContentsContentsPreface: Personal Journalism for Challenging Times PART ONE: What Is First-Person Journalism?Chapter 1: How I Became a First-Person Journalist Defining first-person journalism Permission to say "I" Is it ever too personal? Self-reporting: "What do I know?" How to use this book Why gonzo got it wrong—and right Chapter 2: The Ethics of Personal Reporting He said, she said The limits of objectivity Liars, thieves, and postmodernists Fictional selves versus true selves Embracing the active "I" PART TWO: Developing an Active "I" Voice Chapter 3: Locating Your Passion: What do I want to write about? Don’t bore yourself Don’t perform your emotions Don’t scream at readers Cultivating curiosity: passion for facts Responding to the world Personal story: write about a "wart" Chapter 4: Investigating Yourself: How do I know my own story is true? Why memories are not facts Fact checking the basics Fact checking with family and friends Reporting on your "I" Reporting on what you haven’t said Admitting what you’ll never know Memory essay: write about an early memory Sample story: "Hurricane Warnings" Chapter 5: Establishing Your Stance: How close am I to the story? From POV to first-person stance Determining your emotional distance Personal example: reining in myself Addressing readers: five stances Rethinking voice: active response Review: your personal take on a media work PART THREE: Reporting Beyond the SelfChapter 6: Observing Real Life: How do I describe people and places? Relevance versus vagueness Three kinds of details Conveying the feel of a place Reporting what people do and say Direct reporting of events The art of capsule description Local profile: write about a neighborhood place Chapter 7: Attributing Sources: Where do my facts come from? What is attribution? Sources in first-person features Attribution tags and linking Danger! Avoid voice hijacks The curse of knowledge How-to piece: explain with three tips Chapter 8: Convincing Readers: What’s my argument and who disagrees? The curse of unconscious feeling Point-counterpoint Not all experts are the same Establishing first-person authority Open letter: address a public figure or topic PART FOUR: Storytelling to Make an ImpactChapter 9: Moving Through Time: How have I and the world changed? Sequence: what comes first? Chronology: orienting readers in time Time machine: shifting between past and present selves Trends: personal and cultural Personal trend story: write about changes in food, music, or weather Chapter 10: Organizing a Story: How do I mix everything together? What’s in the mix? Classic feature formula: lead + nut graf Scene breaks and dramatic tension Essays: emotional journeys New mix: feature or essay? Sample outline: "Why I’ll Never Surf Again" Chapter 11: Revising for Impact: What do I really want to say? Test your idea: pitching Focus your idea: taglines Focus your voice: cutting and selecting Connect to the world: your impact Story revision: complete a feature or essay Impact Plan: how do you know? End Note: Witnessing the World with Empathy25 Rules for First-Person JournalismIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten by two award-winning broadcast journalists, this book offers a practical, hands-on guide to the modern digital TV newsroom.Pulling from extensive industry experience, the authors provide a comprehensive look at the key journalistic skills needed to excel in broadcast news today, including storytelling, writing, story pitching, video production, interviewing and managing social media. The textbook is organized into five sections: building a foundation, storytelling and writing, producing, live performance, and ethics and career progression. The authors also provide step-by-step instructions on how to efficiently multitask while staying true to journalist ethics. Each chapter includes clear learning objectives, review questions and practical assignments, making it ideal for classroom use. QR codes integrated in the text allow students to easily see and hear examples of the stories they are learning to write.Broadcast News in the Digital Age is an engaging,Table of ContentsPart 1 – Building Your FoundationChapter One: Meet the Newsroom TeamChapter Two: Finding and Pitching Good StoriesChapter Three: Broadcast News Writing FundamentalsChapter Four: Tips and Tricks to Good WritingChapter Five: Real World LessonsChapter Six: InterviewingPart 2 – Telling the StoryChapter Seven: The VOChapter Eight: The VOSOTChapter Nine: The Package (PKG)Chapter Ten: Shooting and Editing VideoPart 3 – Producing for Broadcast and DigitalChapter Eleven: Producing the Broadcast NewscastChapter Twelve: Producing for Digital and Social MediaPart 4 – The Art of Live and Recorded PerformanceChapter Thirteen: Storytelling—Taking it to the Next LevelChapter Fourteen: Live ReportingChapter Fifteen: Newscast, Sports and Weather AnchorsPart 5 - Local Journalists and Journalistic PracticesChapter Sixteen: Ethics, Law, and Deciphering Fake from FactChapter Seventeen: Getting That JobKey TermsNO NO NO WORDSWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisWritten by two award-winning broadcast journalists, this book offers a practical, hands-on guide to the modern digital TV newsroom.Pulling from extensive industry experience, the authors provide a comprehensive look at the key journalistic skills needed to excel in broadcast news today, including storytelling, writing, story pitching, video production, interviewing and managing social media. The textbook is organized into five sections: building a foundation, storytelling and writing, producing, live performance, and ethics and career progression. The authors also provide step-by-step instructions on how to efficiently multitask while staying true to journalist ethics. Each chapter includes clear learning objectives, review questions and practical assignments, making it ideal for classroom use. QR codes integrated in the text allow students to easily see and hear examples of the stories they are learning to write.Broadcast News in the Digital Age is an engaging,Table of ContentsPart 1 – Building Your FoundationChapter One: Meet the Newsroom TeamChapter Two: Finding and Pitching Good StoriesChapter Three: Broadcast News Writing FundamentalsChapter Four: Tips and Tricks to Good WritingChapter Five: Real World LessonsChapter Six: InterviewingPart 2 – Telling the StoryChapter Seven: The VOChapter Eight: The VOSOTChapter Nine: The Package (PKG)Chapter Ten: Shooting and Editing VideoPart 3 – Producing for Broadcast and DigitalChapter Eleven: Producing the Broadcast NewscastChapter Twelve: Producing for Digital and Social MediaPart 4 – The Art of Live and Recorded PerformanceChapter Thirteen: Storytelling—Taking it to the Next LevelChapter Fourteen: Live ReportingChapter Fifteen: Newscast, Sports and Weather AnchorsPart 5 - Local Journalists and Journalistic PracticesChapter Sixteen: Ethics, Law, and Deciphering Fake from FactChapter Seventeen: Getting That JobKey TermsNO NO NO WORDSWorks Cited

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates journalists' work practices, professional ideologies, and the power relations that impact their work, arguing that reporters' lives and livelihoods are shaped by digital technologies and new modes of capital accumulation. Tai Neilson weaves together ethnographic approaches and critical theories of digital labor. Journalists' experiences are at the heart of the book, which is based on interviews with news workers from Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States. The book also adopts a critical approach to the political economy of news across global and local contexts, digital start-ups, legacy media, nonprofits, and public service organizations. Each chapter features key debates illustrated by journalists' personal narratives.This book will be of great interest to researchers and students of journalism, media and communication, cultural studies, and the sociology of work.Trade Review"Deftly combining political economy and cultural theory, Tai Neilson explains the significance of digital journalism for society and for the workers who labour in the industry. A must read for those who wonder and worry about the future of democracy in a media world driven by clicks, algorithms and dollar signs."– Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Canada, and Fudan University, China "Tai Neilson has succeeded in bringing together political economy, materialistic and cultural studies approaches on the work of journalists in New Zealand and the United States. This results in a rich palette of resistance as well as exploitation, of experimentation as much as standardisation, of love and suffering for the job. This book marks an important step in the struggle for better working conditions and quality journalism."– Mark Deuze, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands"All journalists are today digital workers operating in media organisations that have experienced the structural transformation towards digital capitalism. Tai Neilson’s book is an excellent study of digital journalists’ labour in digital capitalism. He shows how the digitalisation of journalism has in the context of capitalism been confronted by the intensification of exploitation, the reification of journalists’ work, and the ideology of entrepreneurship. This book is an essential work and a must-read for anyone who cares about a democratic public sphere and wants to understand digital journalism."– Christian Fuchs, University of Westminster, UK"One of the challenges in restoring trust in news is re-establishing that there is value in the work of professional journalists. Through detailed interviews with working journalists about the impacts of digital platforms, Tai Neilson identifies new ways to understand the invisible labor of news work, and how journalist can build a future that goes beyond "business as usual" in a time of great disruption."– Terry Flew, University of Sydney, Australia"Drawing from careful ethnographic research and a diverse range of critical theory, Tai Neilson expertly elucidates the politics of digital news work—both the exploitation of journalists and the potential for resistance. It is a devastating portrait, but also a hopeful one. I urge students and scholars of digital labor, political economy, and journalism studies—as well as concerned citizens who care about the future of media and democracy—to read this important book."– Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The Digital Reporter1. Global Changes and National News2. The Digitization of Journalism: Typewriter, Camera, and Electronic Tape3. The Entrepreneurial Journalist and Subjectivities of Digital Labor4. Social Media Metrics and the Reified Journalist5. The News Machine6. Unionizing Digital NewsroomsConclusion: Writing for AlgorithmsAfterword: The Ideology Problem

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Book SynopsisThe Ethics of Humour in Online Slavic Media Communication is devoted to research on how the rules of humour used online media are changing and how these changes rearrange the traditions of speech interaction in media communication. The authors of the book are experienced researchers in the field of Slavic media linguistics and represent five neighbouring countries: Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Poland. The research in the volume is based on the data from Slavic languages. The diversity and, at the same time, relative proximity of Slavic languages make it possible to put separate studies into a wider comparative context, in order to reveal the general and ethno-cultural patterns in using means of communicative etiquette; it helps define the ethno-cultural factors behind the formation of such means. Speech practice of humour creation shows the creative potential of all languages, including the ones with a small number of speakers Slovak and Belarusian, whiTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1. Theoretical Framework for the Analysis of the Ethics of Humour in Mass Media Discourse (Lilia Duskaeva); Chapter 2. Multimodality of Internet-Mediated Communication Behaviour (Danuta Kępa-Figura); Part I. Ethical Evaluation of Humour in Mass Media; Chapter 3. Humour as Mockery (Lilia Duskaeva, Ksenia Shilikhina); Chapter 4. Humour in Prank Telephone Conversations (Lilia Duskaeva, Ekaterina Shcheglova); Chapter 5. Humour as Izdevka (Gibe) (Lilia Duskaeva, Liubov Ivanova); Chapter 6. Humour as Evaluation of Poshlost' and Cynicism in the Speech of Others (Viktoria Vasileva); Part II. Ethics of Online Humour in Slavic-Language Computer-Mediated Verbal Interaction; Chapter 7. Humour as a Provocation of Kpina (Mockery) and Wyszydzanie (Derision) in the Polish Political Segment of Twitter(Bogumił Gasek); Chapter 8. Humour as Zdzek in the Verbal Behaviour of the Participants of the Belarusian-Language Online Community (Тamara Pivavarchyk, Ina Minchuk); Chapter 9. Uštipačnost' and Correctness in Slovak Online Humour (Nina Cingerová, Irina Dulebová); Chapter 10. Humour of Solidarity in Russian-Speaking Discourse on Social Networking Groups in Lithuania (Anastasija Belovodskaja, Julija Korostenskienė); Concluding Remarks: Results of the Study (Lilia Duskaeva)

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Book SynopsisGood writing engages as it informs and feature journalism offers writers the opportunity to tell deep, affecting stories that look beyond the immediate mechanics of who, what, where and when and explore the more difficult-and more rewarding- questions: how and why? Whether you''re a blogger, a news journalist or an aspiring lifestyle reporter, a strong voice and a fresh, informed perspective remain in short supply and strong demand; this book will help you craft the kind of narratives people can''t wait to share on their social media feeds.Writing Feature Stories established a reputation as a comprehensive, thought-provoking and engaging introduction to researching and writing feature stories. This second edition is completely overhauled to reflect the range of print and digital feature formats, and the variety of online, mobile and traditional media in which they appear.This hands-on guide explains how to generate fresh ideas; researcTable of ContentsList of infographics and resourcesAcknowledgements1. Why feature stories matter2. Creating stories for the full range of media forms3. The variety of feature stories amid the variety of media forms4. Being reader-oriented from start to finish5. Generating fresh story ideas6. Gathering the raw material7. The subtle and slippery art of interviewing8. Seeing things for yourself9. Finding the right structure for the story10. Leads, closes and that big lump in the middle11. Wordcraft12. Editing your story and getting publishedGlossarySuggestions for further readingEndnotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book offers fresh research and insights into the complex relationship between the press, war, and society in the 20th century, by examining the role of the newspaper press in the period c.1900â 1960, with a particular focus on the Second World War.During the warfare of the 20th century, the mass media were used to sustain domestic morale and promote combatantsâ views to an international audience. Topics covered in this book include British newspaper cartoonistsâ coverage of the Russo- Japanese War, the role of the French press in Anglo- French diplomacy in the 1930s, Irish press coverage of Dunkirk and D- Day, government censorship of the press in wartime Portugal, the reporting of American troops in North Africa, and how the Greek press became the focus of British government propaganda in the 1940s. Particular attention is given to the role of the British press in the Second World War: its coverage of evacuation, popular politics, and D- Day; the war as seen throTable of ContentsIntroduction: Newspapers, war and society 1. ‘The Shadow in the East': Representations of the Russo-Japanese war in newspaper cartoons 2. The French media and the forging of a Franco-British alliance in the late 1930s 3. Content, comment and censorship: A case study comparing coverage of Dunkirk and D-Day in Irish newspapers 4. Reporting an alternative reality to ‘conveniently guide’ public opinion: The ‘patriotic role’ of the Portuguese press during World War II 5. The development of the ‘Pyle Style’ of war reporting: French North Africa, 1942-1943 6. Moulding Western European identity: The role of the Central Office of Information’s International Digest and its Greek version Eklogi (1945–1960) 7. ‘The Pied Piper Has Played His Tune’: The Daily Express, family and evacuation in 1939 8. The ‘Common Wealth Circus’: Popular politics and the popular press in wartime Britain, 1941–1945 9. How the War made The Mirror 10. Building the meaning of the Second World War on the British home front in commercial press advertising 11. The British press and D-Day: Reporting the launch of the Second Front, 6 June 1944 12. Was there a national press in the UK in the Second World War?

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subsequently, news organizations, choose to promote an identity for themselves and the ideologies that accompany them. Using The Guardian as a case study, the volume draws on its Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) to explore ways in which a newspaper can reflect upon itself, including how newspapers conceptualize the role of the media, how they define good vs. bad journalism, what they see as professional values, how they attempt to cement community membership amongst their readers, how they construct and project their overall identity and role as newspapers and also how they see their position within the larger community. A chapter on the book's methodological framework reflects on critical aspects of CADS, including triangulation, objectivity and subjectivity, total accountability, and replicability. CADS methods are applied inTable of Contents1. Introduction2. Approaches to News Discourse and Journalism 3. Method, Corpus, Process4. Newsworkers5. News-trade Taxonomy6. Over There at The Guardian7. Here at The Guardian 8. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisHow are events turned into news pictures that define them for the audience? How do events become commodified into pictures that both capture them and reiterate the values of the agencies that sell them? This book looks at every stage of the production of news photographs as they move to and from the ground and are sold around the world. Based on extensive fieldwork at a leading international news agency that includes participant observation with photographers in the field, at the agencyâs local and global picture desks in Israel, Singapore, and the UK, in-depth interviews with pictures professionals, and observations and in-depth interviews at The Guardianâs picture desk in London, the findings in this book point to a wide cultural production infrastructure hidden from â and yet also nurtured and thus very much determined by â the consumerâs eye.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Production Process I: From Story to Product 3. The Production Process II: From Product to Story 4. An Analysis of Significant Events Conclusion

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Book SynopsisInternational news has long been studied and understood as produced by outsiders foreign correspondents working in exotic, international locales. This book challenges this established view by putting the spotlight on the insiders working in their own countries producing news for international audiences.Western male foreign correspondents who report from areas affected by crises and conflicts for an audience back home' have long stood in as visible metaphors of international news production. But the understanding of who produces international news is starting to shift as scholars come to take into account the often-invisible role played by locally based, non-Western news-workers who have always been part and parcel of international news production. The roles and responsibilities of these professional, specialised locals within the global flow of news have only increased as falling news industry revenues have meant reductions in non-local staff in foreign news bureaus. AvailabTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reporting Global While Being Local: Local Sources of News for Distant Audiences 1. Fixers as Entrepreneurs 2. "Fixing" the Journalist-Fixer Relationship: A Critical Look Towards Developing Best Practices in Global Reporting 3. Beyond Puppet Journalism: The Bridging Work of Transnational Journalists in a Local Field 4. The Development of Roles in Kosovo: From Fixers to Journalists 5. One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: State-Appointed Local Journalistic Labor in North Korea 6. Hierarchies of Editorial Power in International NGOs 7. "Translating" Russia: News Fixers and Foreign Correspondents in an Era of Political Uncertainty 8. Reporting Global While Being Local—Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies 9. Empowerment Journalism - Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies

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Book SynopsisInternational news has long been studied and understood as produced by outsiders foreign correspondents working in exotic, international locales. This book challenges this established view by putting the spotlight on the insiders working in their own countries producing news for international audiences.Western male foreign correspondents who report from areas affected by crises and conflicts for an audience back home' have long stood in as visible metaphors of international news production. But the understanding of who produces international news is starting to shift as scholars come to take into account the often-invisible role played by locally based, non-Western news-workers who have always been part and parcel of international news production. The roles and responsibilities of these professional, specialised locals within the global flow of news have only increased as falling news industry revenues have meant reductions in non-local staff in foreign news bureaus. AvailabTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reporting Global While Being Local: Local Sources of News for Distant Audiences 1. Fixers as Entrepreneurs 2. "Fixing" the Journalist-Fixer Relationship: A Critical Look Towards Developing Best Practices in Global Reporting 3. Beyond Puppet Journalism: The Bridging Work of Transnational Journalists in a Local Field 4. The Development of Roles in Kosovo: From Fixers to Journalists 5. One Foot in Prison and One Foot Out: State-Appointed Local Journalistic Labor in North Korea 6. Hierarchies of Editorial Power in International NGOs 7. "Translating" Russia: News Fixers and Foreign Correspondents in an Era of Political Uncertainty 8. Reporting Global While Being Local—Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies 9. Empowerment Journalism - Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies

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Book SynopsisToward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform. This book establishes for the first time the actual lineâor dotted lineâbetween mainstream journalism and the multimedia phenomena of true crime. Presenting a stable definition of what isâand what is notâtrue crime will either challenge or justify Truman Capoteâs claims regarding the creation of a new journalism with In Cold Blood, and accordingly expose the reluctance of the promoters of NPRâs Serial, HBOâs The Jinx, and Netflixâs Making a Murderer to refer to their products as such. This research codifies true crime texts of various types on multiple platformsâradio, television, print, digital, and filmâto reveal the defining characteristics of the genre.Trade Review"With this book, Dr. Ian Punnett has staked out new and important territory in the study of true crime. This is essential reading for anybody interested in how and why true crime remains compelling to worldwide readers and audiences." -Jean Murley, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: An Outline in Chalk1.1 Securing the Scene1.2The Background Check2. The Exploratory Study: A Proper Search2.1 Interrogating the Texts2.2 Selection of True Crime Narratives: "The Usual Suspects"2.3 Summation3. The Findings: Two Sides to Every True Crime Story3.1 The Prosecution: The Critic’s View3.2 The Defense: True Crime as a Justice Mechanism3.3 A Review of the Evidence: A Theory of True Crime 3.4 Summation4. Conclusion and Discussion: TheVerdict4.1 A Theory of True Crime4.2 Crimen Veritas4.3 The International Man Hunt is On4.4 Accomplices after the Fact4.5 NON-narrative True Crime Writing 4.6 Crime Porn4.7 The Final Sentence

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Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the history of popular culture in Europe since 1800, providing a framework which challenges traditional associations that have formulated popular culture firmly in relation to the post-1945 period and the economic power of the USA.Focusing on key themes associated with modernity â secularisation, industrialisation, social cohesion and control, globalisation and technological change â this synthesis of research across a very wide field fills a gap that has long been felt by students and educators working in the field of popular culture. While it is organised as a history of cultural forms, it can also be used across a wide range of social science and humanities programmes, including media and cultural studies, literary studies, sociology and European studies. Covering the subject with a broad number of themes, this book discusses popular culture through visual culture and performance, games, music, film, television and video games.PopulaTrade Review From Zazel the Human Cannonball to the Eurovision Song Contest, Tobias Becker and Len Platt explore the trajectory of popular culture and mass entertainment in the modern age. This is an ambitious but completely accessible book for students and the general reader. Professor Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University This wide-ranging but concise overview puts popular culture at the heart of the story of modern Europe. Surveying forms and genres from motion pictures and musical theater to pop music and video games, it reveals how technological innovations and exchanges of ideas remade culture across three centuries. Popular culture is built on the interplay between the local and the global, Europe and America, "high" and "low" – this illuminating work makes those complex processes accessible to students. Julia Sneeringer, Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA Table of Contents Introduction / Chapter 1 Reading Cultures — Modernity and the Word / Chapter 2 Seeing — The Rise of Visual Culture / Chapter 3 Performance — Rational Entertainment and Musical Theatre / Chapter 4 Play — Games in Modern Europe / Chapter 5 Music — From Folksong to Pop / Chapter 6 Film — European Genre Movies / Chapter 7 Television — A Popular Culture and Its Politics / Chapter 8 Digital Europe — The Video Game

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Book SynopsisEthical Reporting of Sensitive Topics explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news stories. Reporting on issues such as suicide, sexual abuse, or migration is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalistâs education. By combining theory and practice, this collection will correct this oversight and give journalists the expertise and understanding to report on these subjects responsibly and ethically.Contributors to this volume are an international group of journalists-turned- academics, who share their first-hand experiences and unique professional insight into best ethical journalistic practice for reporting on sensitive topics. Drawing from a range of case studies, contributors discuss the most appropriate approach to, for example, describing a shooter who has killed a group of schoolchildren or interviewing someone who has lost everything in a natural disaster. Readers are invited to consider factors which have the potential to influence the reporting of these sorts of topics, including bias, sensationalism, conflict of interest, grief, vulnerability, and ignorance of oneâs own privilege. Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics aims to support all journalists, from students of journalism and individuals encountering a newsroom for the first time, to those veteran journalists or specialist journalists who seek to better their reporting skills.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Section One: Ethics, Responsibility and Self-Care 1. Journalism Standards on the Job 2. Learning to Cope with the Tough Times Section Two: Reporting Sensitive Topics 3. Reporting Child Sexual Abuse 4. Reporting Suicide Section Three: Reporting Violence 5. Reporting Mass Shootings 6. Reporting Urban Violence and Gangs Section Four: Reporting Health 7. Reporting ‘Critical’ Health Journalism 8. Reporting on Drugs, Diets, Devices and Other Health Interventions Section Five: Reporting Science and the Environment 9. Reporting Controversial Science 10. Reporting Climate Change 11. Reporting Natural Disasters in the Digital Age Section Six: Reporting Cultural, Ethnic and Geographical Difference 12. Reporting on ‘Other’ Cultures 13. Reporting on International Migration, Conclusion: Further Hints and Tips

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Book SynopsisThe Insidersâ Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an accessible and comprehensive âhow toâ guide about the craft of making documentaries for TV, online or social media. Filmmaker Tony Stark distils a long career at the BBC and as an independent producer to explain the conceptual, visual, editorial and organisational skills needed to make impactful and stylish factual films. Interviews with top industry professionals in the UK and US - commissioners, executive producers, filmmakers, strand editors and media lawyers â add valuable insight and authority to this book. For more experienced filmmakers The Insidersâ Guide tells you how to get the green light for undercover investigations, how to tell film stories online and on social media, and how to budget a factual film.This is a key text for anyone who wants to succeed in the rapidly changing, competitive freelance markets in Britain and America. It provides expert guidance to students on filmmaking courses, journalists wanting to move from print to video and non-professionals with an interest in film-making. Whatever the final destination of your film â and whatever the budget - The Insidersâ Guide provides a vital roadmap.The bookâs accompanying website is a âshow-meâ resource for new directors: with 24 specially-shot film clips illustrating the key rules of filmic grammar and sequence shooting â together with downloadable versions of essential production forms. Trade Review‘I only wish that Tony Stark had written this book 35 years ago when I started making documentaries. Tony's engaging and insightful work is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a head start in the field. Absorb what not to do as well as learn from the experts who Tony has gathered, all of whom provide sage advice to the budding documentarian.’Jeff Bieber, Executive Producer, WETA Washington DC‘Tony Stark’s company made for me at Channel Four one of the most important and difficult documentaries I commissioned in my career. So I would notice any guide he wrote. What I love about this guide is that it’s practical and informed and it also shows you that a talented person with a great idea can break through. TV documentary used to be for the few. Now it’s for the many. Tony Stark genuinely wants the many to get their chance.’Dorothy Byrne, Editor-at-Large, Channel 4 TV'This excellent and thorough book covers every aspect of factual programme making, so is an invaluable resource whatever your level and is particularly useful for aspiring shooter producer directors and series producers.' Cat Lewis, BAFTA, RTS, Rockie & Int Emmy winning Exec Producer and CEO of Nine Lives Media'Video of one sort or another is rapidly becoming the medium of choice in this digital world. Tony Stark’s Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an essential buy for anyone aspiring to enter that world and make a living from it. Practical, clear and very thorough.' George Carey, Independent producer and former editor of the BBC Newsnight and Panorama strands''The book provides practical hints on how to present an idea and shoot the actual film [... and] very pragmatic tips on how to do a TV and online documentary film in a very competitive market, starting from idea proposal and continuing through its shooting and financing. There are many juicy quotes from interviews with 19 British and American industry professionals'Modern Times Review'This guide contains some tough messages for aspiring documentarists. The demand and supply equation in this field is notoriously lopsided. Often good film ideas fall for that reason alone: too many stories chasing too little airtime and money. Tony Stark’s book could just as easily be called a “A Survivor’s guide…”. Follow his meticulously researched advice and insights, and you’ll stand a much better chance of achieving your goal of becoming an accomplished documentary maker.'Samir Shah, CEO, Juniper, an independent TV & radio production company - and a former head of current affairs, BBC TV‘I only wish that Tony Stark had written this book 35 years ago when I started making documentaries. Tony's engaging and insightful work is essential reading for anyone who wants to get a head start in the field. Absorb what not to do as well as learn from the experts who Tony has gathered, all of whom provide sage advice to the budding documentarian.’Jeff Bieber, Executive Producer, WETA Washington DC‘Tony Stark’s company made for me at Channel Four one of the most important and difficult documentaries I commissioned in my career. So I would notice any guide he wrote. What I love about this guide is that it’s practical and informed and it also shows you that a talented person with a great idea can break through. TV documentary used to be for the few. Now it’s for the many. Tony Stark genuinely wants the many to get their chance.’Dorothy Byrne, Editor-at-Large, Channel 4 TV'This excellent and thorough book covers every aspect of factual programme making, so is an invaluable resource whatever your level and is particularly useful for aspiring shooter producer directors and series producers.' Cat Lewis, BAFTA, RTS, Rockie & Int Emmy winning Exec Producer and CEO of Nine Lives Media'Video of one sort or another is rapidly becoming the medium of choice in this digital world. Tony Stark’s Insiders' Guide to Factual Filmmaking is an essential buy for anyone aspiring to enter that world and make a living from it. Practical, clear and very thorough.' George Carey, Independent producer and former editor of the BBC Newsnight and Panorama strands''The book provides practical hints on how to present an idea and shoot the actual film [... and] very pragmatic tips on how to do a TV and online documentary film in a very competitive market, starting from idea proposal and continuing through its shooting and financing. There are many juicy quotes from interviews with 19 British and American industry professionals'Modern Times Review'This guide contains some tough messages for aspiring documentarists. The demand and supply equation in this field is notoriously lopsided. Often good film ideas fall for that reason alone: too many stories chasing too little airtime and money. Tony Stark’s book could just as easily be called a “A Survivor’s guide…”. Follow his meticulously researched advice and insights, and you’ll stand a much better chance of achieving your goal of becoming an accomplished documentary maker.'Samir Shah, CEO, Juniper, an independent TV & radio production company - and a former head of current affairs, BBC TVTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION; PART 1: SURVIVAL SKILLS; THE FACTUAL FILM-MAKER’S SKILL-SET, A Survival Guide for Newcomers to the Industry; PART 2: CREATIVE SKILLS; THE ART OF TREATMENT WRITING, Persuading a Commissioner Read your Proposal from Beginning to End; ON LOCATION, Filming Images, Directing Sequences and Working with Reporters; TALKING HEADS, Choosing Contributors, Conducting Interviews and Making your Characters Look and Sound Good on Camera.; VISUAL STORY-TELLING, Constructing and Illustrating a Linear Narrative; FROM PAPER CUT TO FINE CUT, Editing A Factual Film; HOW TO THRIVE IN THE DIGITAL WORLD, Factual Film-Making For Online Platforms; PART 3: PLANNING SKILLS; REDUCING RISK, Keeping Crew and Contributors Safe on Research and Film Trips; PLANNING A PRODUCTION, How to Organise Yourself Before, During and After a Film Shoot; PART 4: UNDERCOVER SKILLS; SECRET FILMING, Evidence, Ethics, Safety and the Law in Undercover Film-Making; PART 5: FINANCIAL SKILLS; COUNTING THE COST, Budgeting a Factual Film

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Book SynopsisThis new and highly readable textbook by Richard M. Perloff introduces students to the complex world of contemporary news and its theoretical underpinnings, engaging with debates and ethical quandaries.The book takes readers on a concept-guided tour of the contours, continuities, and changing features of news. It covers a huge breadth of topics including: the classic theories of what news should do, its colorful history in America and popular myths of news, the overarching forces involved in contemporary news gathering, critical economic determinants of news and social system influences, and innovative trends in the future of journalism. Drawing on scholarship in the fields of journalism studies and sociology of news, Perloff offers readers a critical, in-depth exploration of news filled with relevant examples from newspapers, newscasts, and social media.Students of journalism, communication, sociology, politics, and related courses, as well as inquisitive scholars, wiTrade Review"This tour de force reminds us of the importance of studying news content, its origins, and the extent to which it reflects reality. Perloff synthesizes many perspectives and builds his own critical and creative analysis of news and people, news and society, and news and the world." – Pamela J Shoemaker, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University"Dynamics of News offers an unflinching look on the foundations, features, flaws, and future of a maligned but magnificent institution, journalism. By offering critical insight into how news turns out the way it does, Perloff helps readers see the limits and importance of news in today’s evolving information environment." – Tim P. Vos, Michigan State University"This is a tour-of-force. Perloff has written a timely, lively, and thought-provoking analysis of contemporary journalism. The book carefully dissects key aspects of journalism, and it delivers a critical yet hopeful assessment about the present of news. It brims with ideas and insights that remind us why journalism still matters amid today's (dis)information chaos. It should be of interest to students and scholars alike." – Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University"In The Dynamics of News, Richard Perloff tackles the full complexity of the emerging news ecosystem, combining classic conceptual models with the latest cases. News may have determinants but is not fabricated, may have its blindspots but still plays a crucial role in a democratic society." – Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin"Like the news writing style Richard Perloff advocates—a mix of powerful anecdotes and social scientific research—this book combines brisk, lively, accessible writing with serious analysis of journalism’s history, epistemology, and contemporary contours. He encourages journalism students to pursuing their passions even as he critiques the ethical dilemmas, economic forces, and political constraints they surely will face. Perloff’s readers will come to their careers both understanding how journalism operates and appreciating relevant theories and concepts." -- Linda Steiner, University of Maryland"Professor Perloff offers an active, lively voice – shored up by well-chosen, contemporary examples – to rethink how journalism can be studied and how the past can meaningfully inform the present. His thoughtful stance provides a path for considering not the demise of news and journalism, but rather, a juxtaposed means for facing journalism in a shifting, digital world." – Dan Berkowitz, University of Iowa"Drawing generously from media research and current events, and cleverly weaving both together, Perloff’s book offers a kaleidoscopic view of the challenges facing journalism – from how get our news to how we make it. The book offers deep context for students (and educators) at a historical moment when the industry desperately needs self-reflection." – Melanie Faizer, University of Tennessee"Perloff smartly blends normative and critical/cultural theory with practical advice, current events, and diverse perspectives about media and society that will help develop more innovative and prepared journalists, scholars, and professional communicators. Dynamics of News prepares readers for meeting (or resisting) advancements of the digital age – and what may come next. This book is a much-needed project to create critical thinkers for the bettering of society and hard-nosed reporters aware of power dynamics inherent in the work they do." – Dr. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Lancaster University, UK"From the Greek messengers with news of wars to Facebook Live police shootings, Richard M. Perloff tracks journalism as it has evolved, documenting its twists and turns and creating a work worthy of assignment in our nation's reporting classes. The book reads as an optimistic tome of the good and bad of news over time, surveys a broad and interdisciplinary array of news scholarship, and forges dozens of connections between what is happening today informationally with social movements, politics, technology, and the larger social structures at work in our world. It shows journalism in all its messy complexities, tackles definitions of truths, and is filled with anecdotes to keep it all interesting. All in all, a fine explainer of journalism as it has transformed for the 21st century." -- Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-Madison"This tour de force reminds us of the importance of studying news content, its origins, and the extent to which it reflects reality. Perloff synthesizes many perspectives and builds his own critical and creative analysis of news and people, news and society, and news and the world." – Pamela J Shoemaker, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University"Dynamics of News offers an unflinching look on the foundations, features, flaws, and future of a maligned but magnificent institution, journalism. By offering critical insight into how news turns out the way it does, Perloff helps readers see the limits and importance of news in today’s evolving information environment." – Tim P. Vos, Michigan State University"This is a tour-of-force. Perloff has written a timely, lively, and thought-provoking analysis of contemporary journalism. The book carefully dissects key aspects of journalism, and it delivers a critical yet hopeful assessment about the present of news. It brims with ideas and insights that remind us why journalism still matters amid today's (dis)information chaos. It should be of interest to students and scholars alike." – Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University"In The Dynamics of News, Richard Perloff tackles the full complexity of the emerging news ecosystem, combining classic conceptual models with the latest cases. News may have determinants but is not fabricated, may have its blindspots but still plays a crucial role in a democratic society." – Stephen D. Reese, University of Texas at Austin"Like the news writing style Richard Perloff advocates—a mix of powerful anecdotes and social scientific research—this book combines brisk, lively, accessible writing with serious analysis of journalism’s history, epistemology, and contemporary contours. He encourages journalism students to pursuing their passions even as he critiques the ethical dilemmas, economic forces, and political constraints they surely will face. Perloff’s readers will come to their careers both understanding how journalism operates and appreciating relevant theories and concepts." -- Linda Steiner, University of Maryland"Professor Perloff offers an active, lively voice – shored up by well-chosen, contemporary examples – to rethink how journalism can be studied and how the past can meaningfully inform the present. His thoughtful stance provides a path for considering not the demise of news and journalism, but rather, a juxtaposed means for facing journalism in a shifting, digital world." – Dan Berkowitz, University of Iowa"Drawing generously from media research and current events, and cleverly weaving both together, Perloff’s book offers a kaleidoscopic view of the challenges facing journalism – from how get our news to how we make it. The book offers deep context for students (and educators) at a historical moment when the industry desperately needs self-reflection." – Melanie Faizer, University of Tennessee"Perloff smartly blends normative and critical/cultural theory with practical advice, current events, and diverse perspectives about media and society that will help develop more innovative and prepared journalists, scholars, and professional communicators. Dynamics of News prepares readers for meeting (or resisting) advancements of the digital age – and what may come next. This book is a much-needed project to create critical thinkers for the bettering of society and hard-nosed reporters aware of power dynamics inherent in the work they do." – Dr. Robert E. Gutsche, Jr., Lancaster University, UK"From the Greek messengers with news of wars to Facebook Live police shootings, Richard M. Perloff tracks journalism as it has evolved, documenting its twists and turns and creating a work worthy of assignment in our nation's reporting classes. The book reads as an optimistic tome of the good and bad of news over time, surveys a broad and interdisciplinary array of news scholarship, and forges dozens of connections between what is happening today informationally with social movements, politics, technology, and the larger social structures at work in our world. It shows journalism in all its messy complexities, tackles definitions of truths, and is filled with anecdotes to keep it all interesting. All in all, a fine explainer of journalism as it has transformed for the 21st century." -- Sue Robinson, University of Wisconsin-MadisonTable of ContentsPart 1: Foundations 1. Prologue: News in a Fragmented Age 2. News and Journalism in the 21st Century Milieu 3. Defining News and Journalism 4. What Should News Do?: Ideals and Complicating Realities 5. The Rich, Colorful History of American Journalism: Overview and Perspectives Part 2: What Makes News Tick? Concepts, Controversies, and Conclusions 6. Unpacking the News: Refracting, not Reflecting Reality Chapter 7. Do Journalists’ Personal Attributes Shape the News?: Myths and Realities 8. Journalistic Routines and Why They Matter 9. Organizational and Economic Influences 10. News and the Social System: Conformity or Change? 11. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisToward a Theory of True Crime Narratives vivifies how nonfiction murder stories are told, what role they play in society, and in the form of true crime why they remain enduringly popular internationally on every platform. This book establishes for the first time the actual lineâor dotted lineâbetween mainstream journalism and the multimedia phenomena of true crime. Presenting a stable definition of what isâand what is notâtrue crime will either challenge or justify Truman Capoteâs claims regarding the creation of a new journalism with In Cold Blood, and accordingly expose the reluctance of the promoters of NPRâs Serial, HBOâs The Jinx, and Netflixâs Making a Murderer to refer to their products as such. This research codifies true crime texts of various types on multiple platformsâradio, television, print, digital, and filmâto reveal the defining characteristics of the genre.Trade Review"With this book, Dr. Ian Punnett has staked out new and important territory in the study of true crime. This is essential reading for anybody interested in how and why true crime remains compelling to worldwide readers and audiences." -Jean Murley, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: An Outline in Chalk1.1 Securing the Scene1.2The Background Check2. The Exploratory Study: A Proper Search2.1 Interrogating the Texts2.2 Selection of True Crime Narratives: "The Usual Suspects"2.3 Summation3. The Findings: Two Sides to Every True Crime Story3.1 The Prosecution: The Critic’s View3.2 The Defense: True Crime as a Justice Mechanism3.3 A Review of the Evidence: A Theory of True Crime 3.4 Summation4. Conclusion and Discussion: TheVerdict4.1 A Theory of True Crime4.2 Crimen Veritas4.3 The International Man Hunt is On4.4 Accomplices after the Fact4.5 NON-narrative True Crime Writing 4.6 Crime Porn4.7 The Final Sentence

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. While the subject, often through the medium of their press representative, struggles to retain control of the interview space, the journalist seeks to subvert it. This interesting and multi-layered interaction, however, has rarely been subject to critical scrutiny, partly because profiles have traditionally been regarded as public relations exercises or as soft' journalism. However, chapters in this volume reveal not only that profiling has, historically, taken many different forms, but that the idea of the interview as a contested space has applications beyond the subject of celebrated individuals. The volume looks at the profile's historical beginnings, at the contemporary manufacture of celebrTable of ContentsIntroduction: Profiling—Painting a Picture in Words Richard Lance Keeble and Sue Joseph Section I: History of the Profile: From Canterbury Tales to the Present Day 1. The Pre-History of Profiles, 1380-1800: Chaucer, News Ballads, the English Civil War and Boswell Grant Hannis 2. Profiling Pitt: The First Political Profile and its Legacies Nikki Hessell 3. Precursor to the Profile: The Character Sketch in Colonial Australia Willa McDonald 4. Profile and Counter-Profile: On Joseph Mitchell’s Joe Goulds Mateus Yuri Passos 5. The Return of the Long-Form Profile: A Case Study of the Quarterly Essay and The Monthly in Australia Matthew Ricketson Section II: The Manufacture of Celebrity and ‘the Ordinary’ 6. Edna Staebler and the Lives of Women Bruce Gillespie 7. Disclosure and Enclosure: Revisiting Media Profiles of Jimmy Savile Simon Cross 8. Profiles of Lived Experience: Charles Reznikoff, Muriel Rukeyser and Mark Nowak William Dow Section III: More than Just the Individual: Profiling Communities, Countries, Movements 9. John Bull Scrambling for Africa: A Portrait of the English at the Heyday of Empire Isabel Soares 10. How Profiles in the Women’s Penny Paper/Woman’s Herald Challenged Cultural Stereotypes—and Promoted Feminism F. Elizabeth Gray 11. Profiling Controversial Social Movements: Arundhati Roy’s Challenges, Style and Insights Jane Chapman Section IV: This Sporting Life 12. The Dark Side of the Moon of Walter Mitty: George Plimpton and the Reinvention of Reality Nick Nuttall 13. New Rules of the Game: Sports Journalism and Profiles Peter English Section V: Profiling and the Trauma Narrative 14. The Empathetic Profiler and Ethics: Trauma Reporting and Advocacy Sue Joseph 15. Profiling War: Managing Trauma in Reporting Horror—the Case of Boštjan Videmšek Leonora Flis

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