News Reporting and Writing

by Brian S. Brooks

News Reporting and Writing teaches print and digital media reporting and writing. This edition expands further into the digital realm while continuing to stress the essential reporting and writing skills that are the foundation for the profession—past, present, and future, no matter the medium. Now available with LaunchPad Solo for Journalism, a digital platform that combines the News Reporting and Writing workbook, videos, thousands of grammar exercises, and video tools in one-easy-to-use space.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, School, Journalism

540 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2016

Reviews

[Eva]

- No Rating

Textbook for my COMM 260 News Writing Class that I took during my spring semester of my junior year of college, 2022. Solid text, more explanations/examples then information but was reliable to study from for tests.

What you get out of this all depends on how your professor uses this book, therefore I didn’t rate it.

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this back in 1989 when I was toying with the idea of writing for a living. It was a decent basic writing book with an emphasis on getting noticed and writing to be memorable. I would recommend this as a beginner's journalism book.

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its a textbook, and for a textbook really not so bad. For a 100 level class, I think it provided a good deal of detail and a decent overview of the subject, journalism.

There were some nice sidebar hints, tips and tricks, and all that. The only thing lacking was a bit more depth to the discussion of AP Style, but I imagine the authors assumed you would receive that part of the discussion in class.

I purchased a separate book to help with the AP style sides of things - it turned out to be the one recommended in the text, so that was rather nice.

Not a bad read if you are interested in learning more about the art of being a journalist.

[Allie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had this book for a news writing class and though I think it could have condensed its ideas more, it was ultimately helpful and made it easy to understand how to write for news media. I didn't read every chapter but I read the bulk of it and if you're looking for something to aid in understanding and organizing news reports, this book combined with the most updated version of the Associate Press Stylebook will be just the ticket.

[Annalisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great textbook for my journalism class. Excellent examples. To the point. Easy to read. (And doesn't use fragments like I do; I promise .). The accompanying workbook is also quite good, though a bit dense.

[George · Rating 3 out of 5]

What didn't I know already? A good starting point/foundation, but not a bible.

[Jaen]

thankful for this book!

[Trang Ngo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Đọc sách dạy viết tiếng Anh mà bằng tiếng Việt nên hơi chán.
Kiến thức thì ok, nhưng đa phần bỏ qua mấy đoạn ví dụ về cách viết vì đọc tiếng Việt chả hiểu gì.

[Lindsay · Rating 5 out of 5]

buy if your field, borrow if not

[casetheplace]

Impeccable leads! Inverted pyramid! High five!

[La Trưởng]

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