Writing for broadcast journalists / Rick Thompson.

By:

Thompson, Rick, 1947-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Media skillsPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.Edition: 2nd edDescription: viii, 192 p. ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780415581677
9780415581684
9780203845776

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DDC classification:

808.06607 22 T.R.W

LOC classification:

PN4784.B75 T48 2010

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Abstract

Contents:

Introduction -- Good spoken English -- The language of broadcast news -- Writing broadcast news scripts -- Different techniques for radio and television -- Writing online news -- And finally--

Summary: Guides readers through the significant differences between the written and the spoken versions of journalistic English. This title helps broadcast journalists at different stages of their careers to avoid such pitfalls as the use of newspaper-English, common linguistic errors, and Americanised phrases.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Good spoken English -- The language of broadcast news -- Writing broadcast news scripts -- Different techniques for radio and television -- Writing online news -- And finally--

Guides readers through the significant differences between the written and the spoken versions of journalistic English. This title helps broadcast journalists at different stages of their careers to avoid such pitfalls as the use of newspaper-English, common linguistic errors, and Americanised phrases.

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