Beginning Radio and TV Newswriting: A Self-Instructional Learning Experience, 5th Edition

Every prospective radio and TV journalist must start somewhere, and the best place to start is at the beginning: Beginning Radio and TV Newswriting. This newly revised edition of a bestselling text includes significant changes and helpful tools to familiarize students with the basic styles, principles and techniques of radio and TV newswriting. Through clear instruction, examples and exercises, beginning students learn how to: 

• Understand and use basic radio and TV news terms.
• Write radio and TV news “reader” stories.
• Write and edit copy to match pictures, graphics and video.
• Write introductions to reporter packages.
• Place attribution, title, age, address and time elements in their proper place in a sentence.
• Write direct and indirect quotations, numbers and individually voiced numbers and letters. 

Fully updated with even more examples, exercises and tests, the fifth edition of Beginning Radio and TV Newswriting is the ideal guide to the newsroom for beginning students.