Writing and Reporting the News - Softcover

Lanson, Gerald; Stephens, Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019515519X ISBN 13: 9780195155198

Publisher: OUP USA, 1994

Synopsis

Writing and Reporting the News, Second Edition, by Gerald Lanson and Mitchell Stephens provides thorough instructions on writing and reporting and extensive opportunities to apply those instructions. Based on the authors' careers as journalists and on the experience of dozens of other first-rate reporters, this unique textbook/workbook combination gives students a sense of the challenges, pressures, and rewards of the profession. It supplies hundreds of real-life examples and problems designed to accomplish four goals: 1) teach a comprehensive set of complex writing and reporting skills; 2) expose students to real-life sources of information; 3) train students to think and act like reporters; and 4) help students think about words and how they are used.

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Book Description

Textbook

About the Author

Jerry Lanson is Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism at Emerson College and served as its first chair. A former editor at the San Jose Mercury and an experienced writing coach, he is the coauthor of News in a New Century: Reporting in an Age of Converging Media (1999). Mitchell Stephens is Professor in the Department of Journalism at New York University. He is the author of A History of News (OUP, 2007), the rise of the image the fall of the word (OUP, 1998), and Broadcast News (2004).

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019515519X
• ISBN 13: 9780195155198
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 512