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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Brief Contents; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; A Preface for Students; A Teachers' Preface to the Third Edition; PART 1 Approaching the Story; 1 Focus on Fundamentals: The Editor Within; Listening to the editor within; What editors do and why it matters; The editor's changing role: From print to multimedia; Preparing to be an editor; 2 Focus on News Judgment: The Editor's Attitude; The editor's attitude; News judgment and news values; The news values and news judgment in action; Doing the right thing: fairness, ethics and decency |
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Standards and the stylebook3 Focus on Skills and Tools: The Editor in the Newsroom; The news is in the details; Skills for today's copy editor; Organization: The shape of the story; Accuracy: The editor's imperative; Tools for today's editor; 4 Focus on Grammar: The Mechanics of Language; Grammar matters; Building grammar skills step by step; Nouns: Plurals and possessives; Pronouns: Substitutes for nouns; Verbs: Where the action is; Modifiers: Adjectives and adverbs; Prepositions: Flexible links; Conjunctions: Precise links; Sentences: Putting the parts together |
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Punctuation: Pauses with a purposeThe standard punctuation marks and a summary of how good editors approach them; 5 Focus on Good Writing: Strong and Graceful Prose; "The best of writing in the worst of times"; The power of simplicity; Verbs give prose energy and focus; Tough calls on words: Technical terms, jargon, slang and clichés; Editing print quotations, broadcast actualities and attributions; "Cleaning up" bad grammar and profanity; Editing "orphan quotes"; That's not what I said!; Building graceful sentences; 6 Focus on Headlines: Precision, Power and Poetry |
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All eyes are on the headlinesHeadline mechanics; Using quotes and attribution in headlines; Headline styles; Accuracy and clarity in headlines; Making the facts fit; Search engine optimization or SEO; When good headlines go bad: How to avoid and correct problems; Feature, focus and impact heads; PART 2 Inside the Story; 7 News Close to Home: Editing Local and Community Media; The challenge of local news; What's different about local news?; Citizen journalism; The characteristics of strong local news; 8 News from Afar: Editing Nonlocal Stories; News from afar; Looking inside the wire |
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Making distant stories meaningfulCombining wire stories; Localizing the wire; 9 Making a Long Story Short: Editing for Brevity and Clarity; Small stories play a big role; Guidelines for making a long story short; Keeping shorter stories lively and relevant; Editing stories for digital devices; Structuring online stories; Editing briefs: The shortest of the short; 10 Working with Writers: Editing Features; Feature editing is creative editing; Features and news: Some distinctions; The feature editor and the feature writer; Leads and language in features; Focus and organization in features |
| Summary |
Contemporary Editing offers journalism students a forward-looking introduction to news editing, providing instruction on traditional newsroom conventions along with a focus on emerging news platforms. This comprehensive text provides students with a strong understanding of everything an editor does, addressing essential copy editing fundamentals such as grammar and style; editorial decision making; photo editing, information graphics, and page design; and new media approaches to storytelling. Throughout, the book focuses on how ""the editor's attitude""--A keen awareness of news val |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Journalism -- Editing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Journalism -- Editing
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Challenger, Don, 1951-
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| ISBN |
1135941343 |
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9781135941345 |
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9780203370322 |
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0203370325 |
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