Broadcast News Handbook: Writing, Reporting, & Producing in a Converging Media World, 2/e
C.A. Tuggle,
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Forrest Carr,
WFLA-TV Suzanne Huffman,
Texas Christian University
ISBN: 0072853514 Copyright year: 2004
What's New
NEW! NEW CHAPTER 13, The Brave New World of Convergence, uses the Tampa News Center as a model. Forrest Carr (news director of WFLA-TV, one of the News Center partners) looks at media convergence from an insider’s perspective. The authors answer some of the common questions news center managers have been asked as they have spoken about convergence on four continents.
NEW! NEW, compelling account of how an ABC producer managed to arrange an interview with an air traffic controller responsible for one of the planes that crashed on 9/11/01 (chapter 5).
NEW! NEW material related to the growing importance of graphics, additional information about writing from video and making direct references to video in chapter 7. These sections also cover many of the pitfalls associated with the use of generic file video.
NEW! NEW material regarding TV standups and general voice/delivery issues as well as the importance of good natural sound in packages or other TV story forms in chapter 9.
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