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[Ebook PDF] Inside Reporting, 3rd Edition

Authors: by Tim Harrower (Author)

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. It also includes more useful advice on feature writing—from stories to reviews and column-writing—than any other textbook in the field.

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. The Story of Journalism

Chapter 2. How Newsrooms Work

Chapter 3. Newswriting Basics

Chapter 4.Reporting Basics

Chapter 5. Covering the News

Chapter 6. Beyond Breaking News

Chapter 7. Law and Ethics

Chapter 8. Online Reporting

Chapter 9. Broadcast Journalism

Chapter 10. Public Relations

PREFACE
Somewhere, not too far from here, at this very moment, a politician is taking a bribe. A factory is dumping toxic sludge into a stream. A deadly virus is landing at the airport. A high school
jock is bulking up on steroids. Someone’s mother is opening a can of contaminated tuna.  Just a typical day in America, in other words, where the lives of ordinary folks depend upon trustworthy information.
Because what we don’t know can hurt us. Who’s the watchdog here? Whose job is it to expose the lies, explain the dangers, inform the uninformed?
If you become a journalist, it’s your job. Now, I’m a realist. I won’t try to dupe you into thinking journalism is glamorous, that your deathless prose will slay any dragons.
Very few news stories change the world. Still, sometimes a single story — a single sentence —can have an impact you never imagined. Put the right facts in the right order and you can make someone laugh. Cry.
Understand. Get involved.
That’s how you make a difference in this chaotic world: one reader at a time For journalism, this is a time of turmoil and transformation. Take newspapers . . . . . . . please.
Once mighty and beloved, the ink-on-dead-tree news biz now suffers layoffs, bankruptcies and the painful desertion of once-loyal readers who’d rather browse headlines online. For free.
Times are tough in TV and radio newsrooms, too. It sometimes seems like journalism, after a long, difficult journey, has come to a fork in the road. If we continue the way we’ve been going, the road plunges off a cliff. Our only other option? Follow the fork that disappears into a spooky, unexplored jungle — the Technoverse! — where either:
a) we’ll all be eaten alive, or
b) we’ll discover dazzling new wonders we could never have imagined. x
So what does all this turmoil and transformation mean for a journalism guidebook like this?
This new, improved edition of Inside Reporting provides a greatly expanded road map to the Web: blogs, multimedia, social networks, user participation. Yet we still focus more on
old-school basics — writing and newsgathering — than on audio, video and interactive graphics.
Why? Why waste time on old-media fundamentals? u Writing is still the simplest, most effective way to deliver information. Sure, audio, video and Web graphics are cool and dramatic, but when it comes to conveying complex ideas, nothing distills data better than the written word.
You never know what the future holds. It’s trendy to predict that newspapers will soon croak like dinosaurs, but don’t bet on it. More likely, print media will adapt, evolve and continue to coexist with TV, radio and whatever new digital options emerge. American consumers demand their news in a wide variety of formats, which means the smartest journalists are those prepared to produce material for any platform.
You never know what your next job might be. You may dream of becoming a cable-news commentator, a multimedia producer or a video blogger. But out there in the real world, your first job may require you to crank out stories for a TV station’s website — or cover city hall for a weekly paper.
For that, basic newswriting skills will be essential. You never know what you’re going to enjoy. You may think writing is a slow-motion, old-fashioned bore compared to shooting video and creating touch-screen graphics. But don’t knock it till you try it. You might find out you’re good at it — that you actually love it — like countless reporters before you.
uIt’s all connected. If you want to be a journalist, you need to gather facts and tell stories. That’s basically all there is to it: 1) Gather the facts. 2) Tell the story.
Sure, you can add photos and hyperlinks and sound bites and animated graphics. But before you can dazzle viewers with cyber journalism, you’ve got to develop news judgment and reporting skills. The basics, in other words.
That’s why this book focuses on newswriting. It’s the traditional, tried-and-true way to master the journalist’s craft.
Whatever medium you choose for news — audio, video, multimedia or ink on paper — it all begins the same way: Gather the facts. Then tell the story.