The Newspapers Handbook (Media Practice)

by RichardKeeble (Editor)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.75

  This is a guide to working as a newspaper journalist. It examines the ever-changing, everyday skills of newspaper reporting and explores the theoretical, ethical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's job. The Newspapers Handbook encourages a critical approach to newspaper practice. Thoroughly rewritten for the third edition and using a range of new examples from tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, non-mainstream and local and regional publications, Richard Keeble examines key journalistic skills such as the art of interviewing, news reporting, reviewing, freelancing and feature writing. Newly updated chapters from Henry Clother, David Northmore and John Turner explore the specialisms of covering the courts, investigative journalism and local government reporting.

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $3.24

  The Newspapers Handbook is the first comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. It offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers. The Newspapers Handbook encourages a critical and reflective approach to newspaper practice. In this new edition, Richard Keeble explores the theoretical, moral and political dimensions of a journalist's job and examines changing newspaper ownership structures and recent ethical controversies. New and up-to-date chapters from Henry Clother and John Turner explore the specialisms of court and local government reporting. The Newspapers Handbook includes: Interviews with journalists about their working practices Working extracts throughout from a wide range of newspaper genres-national broadsheets, tabloids, local papers and the alternative press Advice on training opportunities and the recent growth of journalism courses An updated glossary of specialist terms A guide to the internet as a resource for journalists