Editing for Today's Newsroom
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Editing for Today's Newsroom

A Guide for Success in a Changing Profession

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eBook - ePub

Editing for Today's Newsroom

A Guide for Success in a Changing Profession

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About This Book

Editing for Today's Newsroom provides training, support and advice for prospective news editors. Through history, analyses, and anecdotes, this book offers a solid grounding to prepare potential editors for the full range of their responsibilities in today's newsrooms: developing ideas; evaluating and editing copy; working with writers; determining what is news; understanding presentation and design; directing news coverage; managing people; making decisions under pressure; and coping with a variety of ethical, legal, and professional considerations, all while operating in today's multimedia, multiplatform news arena. Author Carl Sessions Stepp focuses on editors as newsroom decision makers and quality controllers; accordingly, the book features strategies and techniques for coping with a broad spectrum of editing duties. Covering basic and advanced copyediting skills, it also provides intellectual context to the editor's role, critically examining the history of editing and the changing job of the contemporary editor.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
9781135593964
Edition
2
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Communication Studies
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Preface to the Second Edition
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. 1 The dynamic world of editing
  7. 2 What makes a good editor?
  8. 3 The rise of the new editor
  9. 4 The editor as decision maker in a multimedia age
  10. 5 Making decisions about people
  11. 6 Making decisions about copy: Editing for content
  12. 7 Making decisions about copy: Editing for structure
  13. 8 Coaching writers
  14. 9 Making decisions about coverage
  15. 10 Making decisions about presentation
  16. 11 Making decisions about legal issues
  17. 12 Making decisions about ethics
  18. 13 Toward excellence in editing
  19. Notes