K. Tim Wulfemeyer – författare

As new-media news organizations continue to proliferate and traditional news media organizations ramp up their World Wide Web visibility, the ability to write news for online news products is fast becoming a requisite skill for both practicing journalists and journalists in training. Online Newswriting serves as a guide to help prepare practitioners for the brave new world of converging media and web page/Internet journalism. Students learn the basic mechanics, flow, style, tone, methods and techniques of online newswriting through numerous examples and models. Style tests let users easily assess how well they are mastering concepts and skills. Online Newswriting illustrates how to write online news stories incorporating pictures, graphics, audio, and video and describes how to blend the best of writing for print and electronic media into a new way of writing news for mass consumption. Coverage is extensive and includes explanatory, descriptive material; numerous examples and models; style tests; exercises; simulated news copy; and ethical/legal issues/concerns. With an ample supply of simulated wire copy, news releases and fact sheets, Online Newswriting can be used effectively as a practice-rich, main or supplemental text in a variety of journalism courses.

Radio-TV news must be written in a simple, direct manner so a newscaster can read the copy easily and communicate effectively in a way that will help listeners and viewers understand complex issues and events the first time they hear about them. Radio - TV Newswriting: A Workbook, Second Edition gives students abundant opportunities to learn, practice and develop sound foundations for writing radio-TV news. More than 100 pages of true-to-life writing exercises involve students in practicing techniques, skills and situations. Radio exercises include writing reader stories, actuality stories, wraparound stories, voicer stories, live reports and newscasts. TV exercises include writing reader stories, full-screen graphics stories, voice-overs, studio packages (VO/SOT), soundbites, reporter packages and live shots. Students will write stories from wire copy, news releases, fact sheets and reporters’ notes. New to this edition is a section devoted to writing for a station or network web site, including exercises in web writing.

The fifth edition of this bestselling text instructs students on the basic styles, principles, and techniques of radio and TV newswriting. It makes an ideal supplement to basic newswriting texts or radio and TV industry texts. Offers clear instruction, examples and exercises to guide beginning students in correct radio and TV news style Fully updated and with even more examples, exercises and tests The author has extensive radio and TV news experience, both on-the-air and behind the scenes as a producer, news writer, videographer, newscaster, sportscaster, host and reporter

Contemporary Media: Structures, Functions, Issues and Ethics helps the reader become more knowledgeable about the mass media. The publication concentrates on the content, structures and issues associated with the mass media, rather than the science of television, radio, movies and the other mass media.  The publication encourages students to think critically about the mass media so that they will gain a greater appreciation and understanding of the mass mediaThe Latest 2014 Printing of Contemporary Media: Structures, Functions, Issues and Ethics:Analyzes the past, present and future of the mass media.Discusses newspapers, magazines, book publishing, the Internet, radio, television, the recording industry, movies, public relations and advertising.Examines the structures, functions, theories, roles, responsibilities and ethics of mass mediaIncludes information on mass media issues and problems, laws and regulations, and jobs and careers.Places a special emphasis on news in the mass media – as it is critical that students develop an understanding of how news is gathered, processed and distributed.Features Your Thoughts vignettes within each chapter that encourage readers to stop reading, think about an issue or problem, and write briefly about it. These help students gain insights and a deeper understanding of the significant aspects, issues, problems and dilemmas associated with the mass media.Think Back features at the end of each chapter give students a chance to test themselves to see how much they’ve learned from the chapter.