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Writing and Producing Television News, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-0-8138-1299-1
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412 pages
May 2005, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface ix

Acknowledgements xiii

1 Television News: An Introduction 3

2 Television Newswriting: A Different Style 11

3 A Brief Review of Grammar 17

4 Some General Rules for Television Newswriting 35

5 Usage 53

6 Approaching the Television News Story 69

7 Story Formats: Some Basics 101

8 The Voice Over: VO 137

9 Sound on Tape: SOT 165

10 The Voice Over/Sound Bite: VO/SOT 187

11 Putting the Formats Together 211

12 Interviewing: Conversation with a Goal 223

13 The Package 235

14 An Interview with Deborah Potter 271

15 The Live Shot 275

16 An Interview with Beverly White 285

17 Producing the Newscast 295

18 The Station and the Newsroom 321

19 A look Inside: WFAA-TV, Dallas 331

20 Finding a Job 365

Index 387

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