Television news anchor Robert Jordan Jr. draws from forty-seven years of news experiences to provide an eye-opening look at how news programs decide which murders to cover and which ones to ignore. Jordan takes readers behind the scenes into the big city newsrooms of Chicago. Here split-second decisions are made on where to send limited resources ......
Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do not ......
Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt Award A behind-the-scenes account of how death is presented in the media Death is considered one of the most newsworthy events, but words do ......
A collection of essays exploring the role of textual studies in understanding and editing texts, and in understanding the historical developments and cultural differences in editorial and archival systems.
Write, Shoot, Report and Produce for TV and Multimedia
Al Tompkins reminds students about a disarmingly simple truth about broadcast journalism: people remember what they feel. If you aim for the heart with the copy you write and the sound and video you capture, you will never fail to grab your viewers and compel them to keep watching. Aim for the Heart is as close as you can get to having Tompkins's training sessions at the ready.
Rethinking Communications Law to Support Democracy and Viable Business Models
This scholarly monograph takes as its subject media/journalism law and specifically investigates new business models for journalism on the Internet and how legal perspective can lead to new business models. Journalism is in a state of crisis. On the Internet all information is free but the producers of news cannot do it for free. And news ......
This research-driven, strategy-based media writing textbook digs deeply into how media professionals think and write in journalism, public relations, advertising and other forms of strategic communication. The Professional Strategy Triangle model shows students how to think critically about the audience, the situation and the message before starting a new persuasive piece, and the FAJA four-point model asks students a series questions about their story type (Fact, Analysis, Judgment, or Action) to guide them to the right angle or organizational structure for their message. Rooted in classical rhetorical methods, this step-by-step technique enables readers to strategically approach each writing task for any format.
