Essential Journalism : The NCTJ Guide for Trainee Journalists (Paperback)

FOREWORD By Alex Crawford, Patron of the National Council for the Training of Journalists. PREFACE PART ONE: JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS 1 The journalism landscape 2 The nature of journalism. The nature of news. 3: You, the reporter 4 Ethics 5 Regulation PART TWO: STORYFINDING AND STORYTELLING 6 The general reporter 7 Storyfinding: Sources8 Storyfinding: Interviewing 9 Storytelling: Anatomy of a news story 10 Storytelling: Writing a news story 11 Storytelling: Language and style 12 Storytelling: Reporting numbers and statistics PART THREE: MULTIPLATFORM JOURNALISM13 The digital journalist: the digital scene and writing for the website 14 The digital journalist: social media and online research 15 The radio journalist: the radio scene and writing for radio 16 The radio journalist: news summaries and radio reporting17 The television journalist: the television scene and picture gathering 18 The television journalist: continuous news and television reporting 19 The print journalist 20 The mobile journalist. The freelance journalist PART FOUR: SPECIALIST PRACTICE21 The feature writer 22 The court reporter 23 The political reporter 24 The specialist reporter This book summarised in two pages Further reading Acknowledgements Index