News Reporting and Writing

by The Missouri Group

News Reporting & Writing teaches the essential reporting and writing skills within the context of today’s digital media landscape. The Missouri Group, including new author, Beverly Horvit, have extensively revised this edition with diverse examples and a focus on the role of technology to give students a strong foundation in the craft and raise awareness of current issues like fake news and censorship. The team focuses on developing the skills journalists actually use and the many careers in which they, and students, could use them—from working in news, to advertising, to public relations. Much of the text has been rewritten and reorganized to introduce a stronger flow of content paired with the most current coverage of today’s news industry.

Available with LaunchPad Solo for Journalism, the perfect tool set for budding media writers. This online resource includes access to News Reporting & Writing’s digital workbook and Exercise Central for AP Style, a resource containing thousands of activities focused on overcoming the most common grammar and style issues journalism students make.

Genres: Writing, Nonfiction, School, Journalism

544 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 17, 2019

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.

[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 4 out of 5]

buy if your field, borrow if not

[casetheplace]

Impeccable leads! Inverted pyramid! High five!

[La Trưởng]

chắc là một cuốn sách hay