Bob Dotson is an Emmy award-winning correspondent for NBC News with more than thirty years of experience in the field of broadcast journalism. He is Special Correspondent for the NBC Today show. In this one-of-a-kind book, he shares tips and lessons he has learned that can help make your stories sharp, even under the tightest deadlines.
Need a quick answer to a question - or problem - that pops up while you're writing news? The answer is in this book. It's the first specific reference guide for broadcast newswriting. A tool chest for professionals, it's full of tips: tips about words - about writing, about language, about journalism.
Thoroughly revised and greatly expanded, this new edition is even more helpful than the classic first edition. The 1997 revision of Writing Broadcast News - Shorter, Sharper, Stronger is 40 percent longer. And it's even richer and smoother...
Mistakes are often our best teachers, and this book showcases mistakes, network mistakes. Rewriting Network News is really three in one: a collection of network scripts with improvements; a guidebook for writing news for broadcast; and a handbook on usage and abusage.
A Few Marbles Left contains more than 75 essays, rants, news bloopers and observations about television news, as well as serious considerations on improving the craft, who's the top journalist in America, the inside story behind the best news cassette ever shot, and the real issue of the public good versus news excess. Corcoran is by turns ...
This disk and book enable students to learn the basics on their own. These new teaching tools put students to work, but let them proceed at their own pace. And let them run - or stroll - through a series of exercises on screen. They can take these exercises whenever and as often as they wish. Each round of exercises is a learning experience. ...
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