Ceclia Friend, Don Challenger, Katherine C. McAdams

Contemporary Editing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Addresses the many facets of newspaper editing from grammar and design to questions of ethics in a multimedia culture. The textbook's 16 chapters are organized into three parts: basic skills; special issues in copy editing; and editing issues beyond the story itself, including photographs, graphics, page design, and Web editing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 185mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1093g
• ISBN-13: 9780844232102
• ISBN-10: 0844232106
• Artikelnr.: 21297788

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Approaching the Story 1. Focus on Fundamentals: The Editor Within
2. Focus on News Judgment: The Editors Attitude 3. Focus on Skills and
Tools: The Editor in the Newsroom 4. Focus on Grammar: The Mechanics of
Language 5. Focus on Good Writing: Strong and Graceful Prose Part Two:
Inside the Story 6. News Close to Home: Editing Local Stories and Community
News 7. News from Afar: Editing Wire Stories 8. Making a Long Story Short:
Editing for Brevity and Clarity 9. After the Fact: Editing Features and
More Complex Story Structures 10. No Safety in Numbers: Poll and Survey
Stories 11. Doing Justice: Legal Issues, Ethics and Bias Part Three: Beyond
the Story 12. Headlines: Precision, Power, and Poetry 13. An Eye for News:
Editing Photos 14. Showing the Story: Editing Information Graphics 15. The
Balancing Act: Designing Pages 16. From Gatekeeper to Guide: Online News
and 21st-Centruy Editing