Bob Wyss

Covering the Environment

How Journalists Work the Green Beat

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This practical primer explains the primary issues in writing about the environment, identifies who to go to and where to find sources, and offers examples of writing and reporting the beat.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781138284401
• ISBN-10: 1138284408
• Artikelnr.: 53301720

Autorenporträt

Author Bob Wyss has been a journalist and an educator for his entire career. He has covered environmental and energy issues for a variety of publications, including the Providence Journal, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Audubon magazine and Huffington Post. He has been a professor of journalism and has taught environmental journalism and other subjects, at the University of Connecticut and other schools. He is the author of three books.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introducing the beat
1 Covering the environment
2 History of environmental communications
Part II: Reporting the beat
3 Understanding risk
4 Understanding science
5 Interviewing scientists
6 The regulators
7 The advocates
8 Investigative reporting tools
Part III: Writing the beat
9 Shorter news stories
10 Longer news stories
11 Opinion
12 Broadcast journalism
13 Online journalism
Part IV: Understanding the beat
14 Fairness and advocacy
15 The future of environmental journalism