Broadcast Journalism Handbook

Robert Thompson is an award-winning reporter/anchor with fifteen years of on-air experience. Cindy Malone is an Emmy awardDwinning news producer, co-owner of the production company Malone Media Group, and a former television news reporter and anchor.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 1 TV News: The Myth and the RealityChapter 3 2 You've Got the Job, What Do You Do Now?Chapter 4 3 Your First DayChapter 5 4 Putting It All Together: Cast and CrewChapter 6 5 Newsroom Survival GuideChapter 7 6 The Business of NewsChapter 8 7 Crossing the LineChapter 9 8 One-Man BandsChapter 10 9 The StoryChapter 11 10 Where to Go, What to Do, Who to Call?Chapter 12 11 Making DeadlinesChapter 13 12 Writing TipsChapter 14 13 Into PracticeChapter 15 14 News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of History, Recent Events, and PeopleChapter 16 15 Worst-Case ScenariosChapter 17 16 Amateur ErrorsChapter 18 17 Getting the JobChapter 19 18 Wrap-UpChapter 20 Appendix: Going OnlineChapter 21 News Glossary

I will be using the book as a text in my spring semester Electronic News Gathering and Production class . . . I really like the 'real' language of the authors. I believe it will be an appropriate take-along text for my students who, after my course, will be one course away from emerging in the professional world.