Description
Book SynopsisThe single universal bit of advice that working journalists give students is learn to write well. Solid writing is the key to any successful and solid broadcast news operation. In
Writing and Producing Television News, Second Edition author Eric Gormly uses contemporary news events as an engaging backdrop to teach students the fundamentals of writing news for television and cable.
Author Gormly draws on his extensive background as a television journalist to explain how real newsrooms work. The text reviews basic grammar, introduces students to industry-specific terminology and the particular rules for TV newswriting, appraises the basics of a television news story, and reveals how television writing differs from writing for other media. The core of the book develops various story formats, and gives step-by-step instruction on how to transform basic information into properly scripted, solid stories.
Included in this edition are the latest in script formatt
Table of Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
1 Television News: An Introduction 3
2 Television Newswriting: A Different Style 11
3 A Brief Review of Grammar 17
4 Some General Rules for Television Newswriting 35
5 Usage 53
6 Approaching the Television News Story 69
7 Story Formats: Some Basics 101
8 The Voice Over: VO 137
9 Sound on Tape: SOT 165
10 The Voice Over/Sound Bite: VO/SOT 187
11 Putting the Formats Together 211
12 Interviewing: Conversation with a Goal 223
13 The Package 235
14 An Interview with Deborah Potter 271
15 The Live Shot 275
16 An Interview with Beverly White 285
17 Producing the Newscast 295
18 The Station and the Newsroom 321
19 A look Inside: WFAA-TV, Dallas 331
20 Finding a Job 365
Index 387
