For the five local beats—cops, emergencies, schools, courts, and government—you'll learn where to go for information and how to organize and present the stories your neighbors want and need. An overview of tools and techniques include tips on how to find sources, work with editors, conduct interviews, tap the power of the crowd and think multimedia.

. In the latest installment of the field Guide series, Fred Bayles takes you step-by-step through the process of identifying and covering the events and issues that matter most to your community. Stories: overview of common story types and how to go beyond them. Resources: glossary of key terms, checklists, helpful web links.

Then, you'll get specifics on:People: The best official and unofficial sources of info, for each beat, and what to ask them. Places: where to go on the beat, and what to look for while you're there. Documents: where to find records in offices and online, how to decipher and use them.

The Ethical Journalist: Making Responsible Decisions in the Digital Age

Educates aspiring journalists on ethical decision-making, discussion guides, as well as six new “point of view” essays, privacy, the duty of verification, fabrication, and a full glossary brings together the authoritative, the viewpoints of distinguished scholars and print, and insights from complex, broadcast, and digital practitioners, with coverage of key applied issues such as the principles of fairness and accuracy, sample quiz and exam questions, and conflicts of interest, the problems of plagiarism, and deception in reporting Includes extensive revisions to the majority of chapters, including: links to current articles discussing the subjects covered in each of the book’s chapters, engaging voice of a veteran journalist, PowerPoint slides, the role of social media, real-world case studies Supplemented by an annually updated companion website with resources for teachers and students, eight new case studies, and a teachers’ guide that offers sample syllabi, business issues that affect journalism ethics, and questions relating to source relationships, and links to audiovisual material .

This new edition of a well-regarded, student-friendly textbook for journalism ethics has been extensively revised and updated to meet the needs of the 21st century journalist working in the digital age.

Inside Reporting

It also includes more useful advice on feature writing—from stories to reviews and column-writing—than any other textbook in the field. No other textbook offers a more engaging and accessible approach to newswriting than Inside Reporting. While emphasizing the basics this new edition offers a wealth of information on digital reporting and packaging stories in modern interactive ways.

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The Associated Press Stylebook 2019

The ap stylebook is widely used as a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide. It is the definitive resource for journalists. The 2019 ap stylebook features over 200 new and revised entries and a new chapter on health and science coverage. The health and science chapter includes guidelines on choosing stories and proper usage of scientific journals, as well as a primer on types of scientific studies and other coverage guidance.

Also in the 2019 stylebook:--expanded guidance on race-related terms, with a change to our style to no longer hyphenate dual heritage including African American and Asian American and advising against euphemisms like racially charged when racist actually applies. Revised guidance that accent marks can be used with names of people who request them or are widely known to use them, or if quoting directly in a language that uses them.

A change to the entry on percent, calling for use of the % symbol in most cases. More detail on how to use hyphens wisely, including updates to guidance on hyphenating compound modifiers and a change to our rule on words with double e constructions. An updated and expanded entry on suicide, including when and how it is acceptable to report a suicide method and guidance to avoid reporting the contents of notes or letters.

New entries including vaping, deepfake, budtender, cryptocurrency and constitutional amendments and clauses. An appearance by Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus.

The News Media: What Everyone Needs to Know®

The past several years have seen the newspaper industry in a state of crisis, plummeting readership and revenue, with Twitter and Facebook ushering in the rise of citizen journalism and a deprofessionalization of the industry, and municipal and regional papers shuttering or being absorbed into corporate behemoths.

It addresses a wide range of questions, from whether objectivity was only a conceit of late twentieth century reporting, largely behind us now; how digital technology has disrupted journalism; whether newspapers are already dead to the role of non-profit journalism; the meaning of "transparency" in reporting; the way that private interests and governments have created their own advocacy journalism; whether social media is changing journalism; the new social rules of old media outlets; how franchised media is addressing the problem of disappearing local papers; and the rise of citizen journalism and hacker journalism.

. Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in exposing scandals, and has even been alleged to influence international policy. The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history. It will even look at the ways in which new technologies potentially threaten to replace journalists.

Now billionaires, are stepping in to purchase newspapers, most with no journalism experience but lots of power and strong views, both large and small. This addition to the what everyone needs to know® series looks at the past, present and future of journalism, considering how the development of the industry has shaped the present and how we can expect the future to roll out.

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Doing Ethics in Media: Theories and Practical Applications

Its theoretical framework and grounded discussions engage students to think clearly and systematically about dilemmas in the rapidly changing media environment. The 13-chapter text is organized around six decision-making questions— the "5Ws and H" of media ethics. Other distinctive features include:• Comprehensive materials on classic moral theory and current issues such as truth telling and deception, persuasion and propaganda, values, diversity, privacy, and loyalty.

Www. Routledge. Com/textbooks/black • a second website with continuously updated examples, case studies, and student writing – www. Doingmediaethics. Com. Doing ethics in media is aimed at undergraduates and graduate students studying media ethics in mass media, journalism, and media studies. It also serves students in rhetoric, popular culture, communication studies, and interdisciplinary social sciences.

The questions encourage students to articulate the issues; apply codes, policies or laws; consider the needs of stakeholders; sift and sort through conflicting values; integrate philosophic principles; and pose a "test of publicity. Specifically, the questions ask:• what’s your problem?• why not follow the rules?• who wins, advertising, students are encouraged to resolve dozens of practical applications and increasingly complex case studies relating to journalism, new media, public relations, who loses?• What’s it worth?• Who’s whispering in your ear?• How’s your decision going to look?As they progress through the text, and entertainment.

. Doing ethics in media: Theories and Practical Applications is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to media ethics.

Field Guide to Covering Sports

From auto racing to wrestling, author joe gisondi gives tips on the seemingly straightforward—like where to stand on the sideline and how to identify a key player—along with the more specialized—such as figuring out shot selection in lacrosse and understanding a coxswain’s call for a harder stroke in rowing.

In the new second edition, mobile media, writing for television and radio, visual storytelling, developing a foundational understanding for social media, readers also explore sports reporting across multimedia platforms, and applying sabermetrics. Fully revised with new examples and updated information to give readers confidence in covering just about any game, race, meet, regatta or tournament, Field Guide to Covering Sports, match, Second Edition is the ideal go-to resource to have on hand when mastering the beat.

. Transform yourself from sports fan to professional sports journalist Field Guide to Covering Sports, Second Edition goes beyond general guidance about sports writing, offering readers practical advice on covering 20 specific sports.

Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer

In the past decade, writing tools has become a classic guidebook for novices and experts alike and remains one of the best loved books on writing available. Organized into four sections, " "blueprints for stories, "nuts and Bolts, " and "Useful Habits, " "Special Effects, " Writing Tools is infused with more than 200 examples from journalism and literature.

. This new edition includes five brand new, never-before-shared tools. Ten years ago, whittled down almost thirty years of experience in journalism, America's most influential writing teacher, writing, Roy Peter Clark, and teaching into a series of fifty short essays on different aspects of writing. Accessible, useful for every type of writer, entertaining, from high school student to novelist, and above all, inspiring, Writing Tools is essential reading.

A special 10th anniversary edition of Roy Peter Clark's bestselling guide to writing, featuring five bonus tools.

Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method

An entire chapter is devoted to media ethics, while ethical dilemmas in each chapter give you practice working through ethical issues before you face them on the job. Pulling examples straight from recent headlines, writing and reporting news: a coaching METHOD, 8e uses tips and techniques from revered writing coaches and award-winning journalists to help you develop the writing and reporting skills you need to succeed in the changing world of journalism.

It also includes an all-new book glossary featuring many of the newer terms used in Journalism. Integrating new trends in the convergence of print, and online media, broadcast, WRITING AND REPORTING NEWS equips you with the fundamental skills you need for media careers now-and in the future. Important notice: media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Offering the most up-to-date coverage available, the Eighth Edition fully integrates multimedia content into the chapters-reflecting the way the news world actually operates. Full-color photographs and a strong storytelling approach keep you captivated throughout the book.

The Elements of Journalism, Revised and Updated 3rd Edition: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect

The elements of journalism is written for journalists, but any citizen who wonders why the news seems trivial or uninspiring should read it. Marta salij, detroit free pressThe elements of journalism are:* Journalism’s first obligation is to the truth. Its first loyalty is to citizens. Its essence is a discipline of verification.

Its practitioners must maintain an independence from those they cover. It must serve as an independent monitor of power. It must provide a forum for public criticism and compromise. It must strive to make the significant interesting and relevant. It must keep the news comprehensive and proportional. Its practitioners must be allowed to exercise their personal conscience.

. The book should become essential reading for journalism professionals and students and for the citizens they aim to serve. Carl sessions stepp, american Journalism Review“If you think journalists have no idea what you want. Better—it has solutions.