The Newspapers Handbook (Media Practice) - Hardcover

Book 11 of 17: Media Practice

Keeble, Richard; Reeves, Ian

 
9780415666510: The Newspapers Handbook (Media Practice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415666511 ISBN 13: 9780415666510
Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

This new edition of The Newspapers Handbook presents an enlightening examination of an ever-evolving industry, engaging with key contemporary issues, including reporting in the digital age and ethical and legislative issues following the hacking scandal to display a comprehensive anatomy of the modern newsroom.

Richard Lance Keeble and Ian Reeves offer readers expert practical advice, drawing on a wide range of examples from print and digital news sources to illustrate best practice and the political, technological and financial realities of newspaper journalism today.

Other key areas explored include:

  • the language of news
  • basic reporting
  • the art of interviewing
  • feature writing
  • the role of social media in reporting
  • investigative reporting
  • court reporting
  • reporting on national and local government
  • guidance on training and careers for those entering the industry.

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About the Author

Ian Reeves is Deputy Director of the University of Kent’s Centre for Journalism. An award-winning former editor of Press Gazette, he continues to write about business and media issues for a variety of newspapers and to provide digital consultancy for online news content. He is co-editor of What Do We Mean By Local? Grass-Roots Journalism - Its Death and Rebirth (with Neil Fowler and John Mair, 2012). He designed and built the Centre for Journalism’s website and its iPad app - the first app for a university department to appear on the Apple App Store.

Richard Lance Keeble is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is the author of Ethics for Journalists (2nd edition, 2008), the editor of Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction (2005), the co-editor of The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (with Sharon Wheeler, 2007) and is co-editor and author of 25 other titles.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415666511
ISBN 13 
9780415666510
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
5
Number of pages
336

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