Radio and Television Reporting [antikvár]

PREFACE The purpose of Radio and Television Reporting is to give its readers an overview of the spectrum of radio and television news. Few broadcasters are able to develop a high degree of proficiency in all of the skills they need to produce polished news stories for radio and television, but they become familiar with all facets of news production, possibly becoming experts in one or more skills. Successful news broadcasters are adept at one or more skills—writing, reporting, recording, photographing, editing, producing, performing—and they cultivate a sense of journalistic ethics and a knowledge of the laws that affect news. This book is designed to introduce neophyte broadcasters to writing news for broadcast and to refresh the skills of experienced news broadcasters who want to improve their styles. Radio and Television Reporting is designed to give its readers an overview of news broadcasting and to encourage them to hone their skills and discover where they can adapt best to the process. Reporting is a companion skill to writing. Broadcasters who can generate story ideas, interview newsmakers, cull records, and observe and absorb the atmosphere and actions that surround the events and newsmakers they cover will be able to interpret events clearly for their listeners and viewers. Sounds and pictures are particular properties of radio and television news. Reporters who, with their specialized technology, can record and combine the voices and the ambience, the faces and the scenes that reveal information and emotions, can give human dimensions to their news. Broadcasters who cultivate talents to communicate ideas vocally and physically can enhance the understanding of their listeners and viewers. And practicing reporters need to be aware of how their work affects the people they report about and the people they report to. They need to develop their own ethical principles and learn their employers' ethical guidelines. They also need to know the legal limits of defamation, privacy, and federal regulations. The people with whom I worked for twenty years in broadcasting and the people I have watched for fifteen years as a media critic have taught me much