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Writing News for Broadcast
Writing News for Broadcast is the Strunk and White of broadcast newswriting books. Long considered the gold standard of broadcast journalism textbooks, this guide for the student and the professional has inspired generations of newscasters through its eloquent examples and emphasis on the writer's responsibility, commitment, and integrity. It is written in a conversational style reflecting years of professional and teaching experience in radio and television newswriting.
This new edition is fully revised with examples throughout, drawn from fine writing by journalists at networks and local stations. It includes updated chapters covering use of the wire services and special formats that have become popular in recent years such as the newsmagazine. But the third edition retains the inspirational quality that has for years made this text so widely respected. In this process of providing clear, succinct instruction in the basics of the trade, it conveys to students and practicing newswriters a sense of the extraordinary tradition within which they work. The authors' emphasis on skill and creativity, responsibility to the listener, and appreciation of the profession's finest hours and finest writers make this book unique.
This new edition is fully revised with examples throughout, drawn from fine writing by journalists at networks and local stations. It includes updated chapters covering use of the wire services and special formats that have become popular in recent years such as the newsmagazine. But the third edition retains the inspirational quality that has for years made this text so widely respected. In this process of providing clear, succinct instruction in the basics of the trade, it conveys to students and practicing newswriters a sense of the extraordinary tradition within which they work. The authors' emphasis on skill and creativity, responsibility to the listener, and appreciation of the profession's finest hours and finest writers make this book unique.
- GenresNonfiction
176 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 1971
About the author
Edward Bliss Jr.
11 booksEdward Lydston Bliss, Jr. (July 30, 1912 – November 25, 2002) was an American broadcast journalist, news editor and educator. After 25 years at CBS News (1943–1968) as editor, copywriter and producer for Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, he founded the broadcast journalism program at American University.
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May 13, 2011Someone else compared this to Strunk and White, and rightly so. It's quick to read, but you also don't need to read all the examples; if you read the first paragraph of every chapter, you would figure out what they want to convey.
I think the book needs a new title (or subtitle) however. This is a book on writing for oral presentations. As such, it should be mandatory for speechwriters, toastmasters, power point presenters, lecturers and all academics. Like Strunk and White, there is no rule that couldn't be broken and no rule that isn't ultimately common sense: write short, clear sentences; do not use words that may have confusing homonyms, etc. but they are worth reviewing.
The suggestions about getting a job in newscast writing are all obsolete.
I think the book needs a new title (or subtitle) however. This is a book on writing for oral presentations. As such, it should be mandatory for speechwriters, toastmasters, power point presenters, lecturers and all academics. Like Strunk and White, there is no rule that couldn't be broken and no rule that isn't ultimately common sense: write short, clear sentences; do not use words that may have confusing homonyms, etc. but they are worth reviewing.
The suggestions about getting a job in newscast writing are all obsolete.
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