Communication

Writing for Broadcast Journalists is the essential guide to writing news for television and radio, guiding readers through the significant differences between writing text to be read, and writing spoken English that will be heard. This book helps broadcast journalists at every stage of their careers to avoid newspaper-style 'journalese', clichés, jargon, and inaccurate grammar or pronunciation, while capturing the immediacy of the spoken word in creative broadcast news scripts. It also gives advice on providing concise online material for broadcasters' websites. Sections include: *nbsp;Practical advice on how to write accurately but conversationally *nbsp;How to cope with a dynamic English language, with new expressions and words changing their meanings *nbsp;Writing scripts that match the TV pictures, and use real sound on radio *nbsp;Detailed guidance on correct terminology and the need for sensitive language *nbsp;An appendix of 'dangerous' words and phrases to be avoided in scripts. Written in a lively and accessible style by a former BBC news editor, Writing for Broadcast Journalists is an invaluable guide to the techniques of writing news for television, radio and online audiences.

Elements of Indigenous Style offers Indigenous writers and editors—and everyone creating works about Indigenous Peoples—the first published guide to common questions and issues of style and process. Everyone working in words or other media needs to read this important new reference, and to keep it nearby while they're working. This guide features: Twenty-two succinct style principles. Advice on culturally appropriate publishing practices, including how to collaborate with Indigenous Peoples, when and how to seek the advice of Elders, and how to respect Indigenous Oral Traditions and Traditional Knowledge. Terminology to use and to avoid. Advice on specific editing issues, such as biased language, capitalization, and quoting from historical sources and archives. Case studies of projects that illustrate best practices.

English for Journalistsis an invaluable guide not only to the basics of English, but to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and jargon, which are specific to the language of journalism. Written in an accessible style, English for Journalistscovers the fundamentals of grammar, the use of spelling, punctuation and journalistic writing; with each point illustrated by concise examples. This revised and updated edition includes: an introductory chapter which discusses the present state of English and current trends in journalistic writing a new chapter in the grammar section featuring ten of the most common howlers made by journalists up-to-date examples of spelling, punctuation and usage mistakes published in newspapers and magazines a specimen house-style guide reproduced in full an extended glossary of terms used in journalism.