Writing for News Media

<p><em>Writing for News Media </em>is a down-to-earth guide on how to write news stories for online, print and broadcast audiences. It celebrates the craft of storytelling, arguing for its continued importance in a modern newsroom. With dynamism and humour, Ian Pickering, a journalist with 30 years’ experience, offers readers practical advice on being a news journalist, with step-by-step guidance on creating a great story and writing the perfect news copy.</p><p>Chapters include:</p><ul> <li>extracts from published news articles to help illustrate the dos and don’ts of storytelling;</li> <li>the ten golden rules for structuring and putting together a successful news article, including ‘Nail the intro’, ‘Let it flow’ and ‘Keep it simple’;</li> <li>instruction on writing stories for different specialist subjects, including politics, court cases, economics, funnies and celebrity;</li> <li>help for readers on how to write for broadcast news;</li> <li>tips on how to write headlines, how to use pictures, how to make the most of quotations and how to avoid common style and grammar mistakes;</li> <li>glossaries covering a range of different aspects of news journalism, including types of news story, online and data journalism, typesetting and broadcasting.</li> </ul><p>This is an instructive and insightful manual which champions brilliant storytelling and writing with flair. It introduces a set of key creative and analytical techniques that will help students of journalism and young professionals hone and refi ne their story-writing skills.</p> <p><em>List of Figures</em>;<em> Preface, </em>Introduction Chapter 1: You, the storygatherer Chapter 2: What is news? Chapter 3: Tools of the trade Chapter 4: Borrowing from Bond Chapter 5: Building a story Chapter 6: The first golden rule Chapter 7: The other golden rules Chapter 8: Headlines, quotes and pictures Chapter 9: Tackling different subjects Chapter 10: Writing for broadcast Chapter 11: The non-rules of grammar <em>Further Reading</em>;<em> Index</em></p>