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The universal journalist / David Randall.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Edition: Fifth editionDescription: 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783717767
  • 1783717769
  • 9781783717774
  • 1783717777
  • 0745336760
  • 9780745336763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Universal journalist.DDC classification:
  • 070.4 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4775 .R365 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
What Makes a Good Reporter? -- The Limitations of Journalism -- What is News? -- Where Do Good Stories Come From? -- Research -- Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You -- Questioning -- Reporting Numbers and Statistics -- Investigative Reporting -- How to Cover Major Incidents -- Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes -- Ethics -- Writing for Newspapers -- Intros -- Construction and Description -- Handling Quotes -- Different Ways to Tell A Story -- Comment, Intentional and Otherwise -- How to Be a Great Reporter.
Summary: Updated, fifth edition of a best-selling guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.
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Originally published 1996 --Title page verso.

Includes index.

Print version record.

What Makes a Good Reporter? -- The Limitations of Journalism -- What is News? -- Where Do Good Stories Come From? -- Research -- Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You -- Questioning -- Reporting Numbers and Statistics -- Investigative Reporting -- How to Cover Major Incidents -- Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes -- Ethics -- Writing for Newspapers -- Intros -- Construction and Description -- Handling Quotes -- Different Ways to Tell A Story -- Comment, Intentional and Otherwise -- How to Be a Great Reporter.

Updated, fifth edition of a best-selling guide to the 'universals' of good journalistic practice for professional and trainee journalists worldwide.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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