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"Broadcast News Handbook enables students and professionals to become better writers and better broadcast journalists. Backed by 50 years of combined broadcast journalism experience, the authors provide helpful discussions on crafting language and becoming an effective storyteller. Topics addressed include "Deadly Copy Sins and How to Avoid Them"; "Interviewing: Getting the Facts and the Feelings"; "Producing TV News"; and "Writing Sports.""--Publisher's...
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A satirical look at the politics and power struggles of television executives as a network news anchorman turns the tables on the "ratings."
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When Fred Friendly's powerful examination of broadcast news was published in 1967, it was judged by The New Yorker to be "an engrossing professional memoir." and it quickly leaped onto The New York Times bestseller list. Now reissued with a new Introduction by Dan Rather, anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, and Tom Bettag, executive producer of Nightline, on the anniversary of Friendly's death, this discourse on the importance of television...
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In a world of blow-dried anchors, Linda Ellerbee is that rare creature- a literate, sophisticated, breezily irreverent journalist who treats the viewer as if he were not an idiot. She relays some very fine stories, about both what has gone right in her fourteen-year career as local reporter in Houston and New York, NBC correspondent, Today show essayist, and coanchor for the much-praised and awarded Weekend and NBC News Overnight. In the process,...
11) Broadcast blues: dispatches from the twenty-year war between a television reporter and his medium
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There have been memoirs by television anchorpeople before, there have been intellectual critiques of the medium, but there has never been a book like Broadcast Blues. In this smart, scathing, and very funny account of his years on the air, former NBC News correspondent Eric Burns exposes the distortions and pretensions of television journalism by showing us how it works, how what we see on our screens gets there, and freely confesses his role in all...
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Reports on the Arabic television news station al-Jazeera, "the CNN of Arabia". Dedicated to freedom of speech, al-Jazeera has earned the admiration of the West and the ire of the Arab nations. The program includes clips of al-Jazeera news programs and reports as well as interviews with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, and some of al-Jazeera's reporters, editors, and directors
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Al-Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Set up by the maverick Emir of Qatar, who drew heavily on a failed BBC Arabic television project, Al-Jazeera quickly became a household name after September 11 by delivering some of the biggest scoops in television history. Financed by one of the wealthiest countries in the world, Al-Jazeera quickly established itself as the premier news...
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This is a work of media history adn criticism with a human face. It presents profiles of 11 journalists who left big mainstream media outlets to take on new career challenges. Their stories give the reader a vivid sense of what it means to be a reporter and to cover big news events. But this book goes beyond media memoir. The book also explores the factors that led talented people to reassess he profession they loved, and raises questions about the...
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