Subediting for Journalists - Softcover

Hicks, Wynford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415240859 ISBN 13: 9780415240857

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

Subediting for Journalists is a concise, up-to-date and readable introduction to the skills of subediting for newspapers and magazines. It describes how subediting has developed, from the early days of printing to the modern era of computers and the web, and explains clearly what the sub now has to do.
Using practical examples from newspapers and magazines, Subediting for Journalists introduces the various techniques involved in subediting from cutting copy to writing cover lines. It includes:
*house style explained with model stylebook provided
*examples of bad journalistic English such as misused clichés and pronoun confusion
*subbing news and features for sense and style
*editing quotes and readers' letters
*projecting copy by writing headlines and standfirsts
*checking pictures and writing captions
*principles and methods of proofreading
*making copy legally safe
*understanding production and using software packages
*website subbing
*a glossary of journalistic terms and suggestions for further reading

About this title

Review

..."the Routledge Media Skills series.... offering solid how-to-do-it advice for those embarking on a career in journalism or television...and together they are beginning to form a comprehensive textbook published in installments."
-Bruce Hamlin, City University, London, in Journalism
..."the growing and important Media Skills stable from Routledge."
-John Herbert, Staffordshire University, in Journalism Studies

Synopsis

Subediting for Journalists is a concise, up-to-date and readable introduction to the skills of subediting for newspapers and magazines. It describes how subediting has developed, from the early days of printing to the modern era of computers and the web, and explains clearly what the sub now has to do. Using practical examples from newspapers and magazines, Subediting for Journalists introduces the various techniques involved in subediting from cutting copy to writing cover lines. It includes: house style explained with model stylebook provided examples of bad journalistic English such as misused cliches and pronoun confusion subbing news and features for sense and style editing quotes and readers' letters projecting copy by writing headlines and standfirsts checking pictures and writing captions principles and methods of proofreading making copy legally safe understanding production and using software packages website subbing

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415240859
• ISBN 13: 9780415240857
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190