Broadcast Journalism

Peter Stewart is an award-winning broadcaster, radio consultant and author with 30 years’ experience in media. His book Essential Radio Skills (2006 and 2010) has been widely praised by BBC and commercial radio presenters and managers as being the book on how to present and produce a radio show.Ray Alexander has more than 30 years’ experience in media management, TV, audio and online broadcast journalism and presentation. He has trained more than 5,000 journalists and presenters at the BBC in the UK and 22 other broadcasting organisations worldwide. He presented ITV Newsweek and was a Foreign Affairs and Political Correspondent. He is now a lecturer in broadcast journalism at City, University of London.

• Preface. What this book is about ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1 Do You Want The Job?2 Ethics. Law. Fakes & Fabrications (biggest now – 35 pages)3 Story types for broadcast journalism.4 News channels, programmes and streams5 Where News Comes From6 Choosing and Chasing the Story7 Setting up the Interview8 The Interview9 Writing Basics10 Writing for News11 Broadcast News Style Book 12 Putting the Show Together13 News Anchors and Presenters14 On Air15 Newsreading16 Story Treatment17 Recording 18 Editing19 The Studio20 Television newsroom production21 Writing Television News22 Gathering television news. 23 Getting the shots24 Editing the pictures and sound25 Live TV reporting26 Data, graphics and visuals27 The television news studio and presentationAppendix - GLOSSARY OF TERMSIndex