Broadcast News in the Digital Age

Written by two award-winning broadcast journalists, this book offers a practical, hands-on guide to the modern digital TV newsroom.

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Faith Sidlow is an award-winning broadcast journalist with three decades of experience in television and radio news. She is an associate professor of broadcast journalism at California State University, Fresno, where she teaches broadcast and multimedia journalism. Faith worked as a reporter, anchor and producer for the Fresno NBC affiliate for 28 years. Her early broadcast career included radio reporter and board operator at KPBS-FM; San Diego reporter for KNX News Radio, Los Angeles; and research intern for CBS News in London.

Kim Stephens is an Edward R. Murrow and Emmy® award-winning journalist and college professor. She's worked as a news anchor, producer, reporter, weather anchor, telethon host, and community event emcee at KERO, WBIR, HGTV, WVLT, KNTV, KMPH. Kim is also an adjunct professor teaching broadcast news writing, on-air performance and broadcast reporting and production at California State University, Fresno.

Inhalt

Part 1 Building Your Foundation

Chapter One: Meet the Newsroom Team

Chapter Two: Finding and Pitching Good Stories

Chapter Three: Broadcast News Writing Fundamentals

Chapter Four: Tips and Tricks to Good Writing

Chapter Five: Real World Lessons

Chapter Six: Interviewing

Part 2 Telling the Story

Chapter Seven: The VO

Chapter Eight: The VOSOT

Chapter Nine: The Package (PKG)

Chapter Ten: Shooting and Editing Video

Part 3 Producing for Broadcast and Digital

Chapter Eleven: Producing the Broadcast Newscast

Chapter Twelve: Producing for Digital and Social Media

Part 4 The Art of Live and Recorded Performance

Chapter Thirteen: StorytellingTaking it to the Next Level

Chapter Fourteen: Live Reporting

Chapter Fifteen: Newscast, Sports and Weather Anchors

Part 5 - Local Journalists and Journalistic Practices

Chapter Sixteen: Ethics, Law, and Deciphering Fake from Fact

Chapter Seventeen: Getting That Job

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