With a focus on how the modern newsroom runs and operates, News Writing and Reporting: A Strategic Approach to Storytelling prepares students to become successful journalists in today?s competitive news industry. Author Chris Vaccaro applies an audience-centered and business-minded approach, discusses emerging media trends, and guides students through strategic thought in multiplatform reporting and storytelling. The book offers practical career tips, interviews with reporters, and full career and product development guides, while each chapter concludes with strategies and writing exercises to equip students with tactics for planning, structuring, and editing content across various platforms.

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News Writing and Reporting: A Strategic Approach to Storytelling
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Publisher Note
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- Preface
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What Is News?
- 2 The News Story
- 3 Multiplatform Journalism
- 4 Subjects, Sourcing, and Records
- 5 Interview Skills
- 6 Beat Coverage
- 7 Writing Strategy and Style
- 8 Story Structure, Sentence Construction, and Word Choice
- 9 How News Organizations Work Today
- 10 Long-Form and Feature Writing
- 11 Journalism Jobs
- 12 Writing for Video and Audio Platforms
- 13 Media Law and Ethics
- Appendix 1: Code of Ethics
- Appendix 2: Product Development and News Technology
- Appendix 3: Entrepreneurial Journalism
- Appendix 4: List of Professional Journalism Groups
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- About the Author
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