Journalism for Dummies - Nettles, Arionne

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Résumé :

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Journalism 5

Chapter 1: Becoming a Journalist 7

Exploring the Many Roads to Journalism 8

The traditional road 8

Forging new paths 10

Understanding the Responsibility of a Journalist 12

Being truthful 13

Being accurate 14

Being fair 15

Identifying the Essential Skills You Need 17

Researching 17

Reporting 18

Interviewing 19

Fact-checking 20

Working in a Newsroom versus Working Independently 21

Barriers to entry 21

Having an editor 21

Having editorial control 22

Being flexible 22

Working on Different Platforms 22

Print 23

Digital 23

Television 23

Documentary video 23

Radio 23

Podcasting 24

Social media 24

Chapter 2: Defining Journalism 25

What Journalism Is 25

The fourth estate and democracy 26

Journalism beats 29

News versus opinion 30

What Journalism Isn't: Blogs, Tabloids, and Gossip 32

Who Sets the Standards for Truth 34

Becoming a Journalist 35

Applying for a job 35

Interviewing 36

Taking writing and editing tests 36

What to Expect in a Journalism Job 37

The structure of a newsroom 37

The business goals of a media business 38

Chapter 3: Media Literacy: What It Is and Why It Matters 39

Understanding Media Literacy 40

Recognizing How Media Affects You 42

Your right to be informed 43

Your right to find the information you seek 43

Your right as a citizen to monitor those in power 44

Identifying Fake News 45

Seeing where fake news crops up 46

Distinguishing among the different types of fake news 47

Distinguishing what's true from what's false 49

Part 2: Understanding the Reporting Process 51

Chapter 4: Identifying Different Types of Stories 53

Looking at the Traditional Story Types 54

Breaking news 54

Meetings and events 56

Enterprise stories 57

Investigative work 58

Features and profiles 60

Obituaries 61

Editorials 62

Exploring Emerging Digital Forms 63

Aggregated stories 63

Listicles 64

Explainers 65

Interactive stories 65

Chapter 5: Determining What's Newsworthy 67

Standards for Approving a Story Idea 68

The impact of the idea or event 68

The proximity of the occurrence to the news audience 69

The timeliness of the idea 70

The prominence of the people involved 71

The trendiness of the idea 71

How unusual a story is 72

How much conflict is present 72

What Drives Newsroom Decisions 73

Executive editors 73

Midlevel editors 74

Overall newsroom culture and interest 76

Working through Disagreements 77

Chapter 6: Finding Sources for a Story 79

What Is a Source 79

Types of Sources 81

Official and unofficial 81

Unofficial sources 82

Primary and secondary sources 84

People as Sources 85

Finding sources 85

Vetting sources 86

Developing long-term sources 87

The Voices Your Story Needs 88

What to include when reaching out 89

On or off the record? What it means 90

Chapter 7: Conducting Interviews 93

The Interview Process 94

Doing your research 94

Preparing questions 96

Taking care with vulnerable sources 97

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Biographie:

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Journalism 5

Chapter 1: Becoming a Journalist 7

Exploring the Many Roads to Journalism 8

The traditional road 8

Forging new paths 10

Understanding the Responsibility of a Journalist 12

Being truthful 13

Being accurate 14

Being fair 15

Identifying the Essential Skills You Need 17

Researching 17

Reporting 18

Interviewing 19

Fact-checking 20

Working in a Newsroom versus Working Independently 21

Barriers to entry 21

Having an editor 21

Having editorial control 22

Being flexible 22

Working on Different Platforms 22

Print 23

Digital 23

Television 23

Documentary video 23

Radio 23

Podcasting 24

Social media 24

Table of Contents iii

Chapter 2: Defining Journalism 25

What Journalism Is 25

The fourth estate and democracy 26

Journalism beats 29

News versus opinion 30

What Journalism Isn't: Blogs, Tabloids, and Gossip 32

Who Sets the Standards for Truth 34

Becoming a Journalist 35

Applying for a job 35

Interviewing 36

Taking writing and editing tests 36

What to Expect in a Journalism Job 37

The structure of a newsroom 37

The business goals of a media business 38

Chapter 3: Media Literacy: What It Is and Why It Matters 39

Understanding Media Literacy 40

Recognizing How Media Affects You 42

Your right to be informed 43

Your right to find the information you seek 43

Your right as a citizen to monitor those in power 44

Identifying Fake News 45

Seeing where fake news crops up 46

Distinguishing among the different types of fake news 47

Distinguishing what's true from what's false 49

Part 2: Understanding the Reporting Process 51

Chapter 4: Identifying Different Types of Stories 53

Looking at the Traditional Story Types 54

Breaking news 54

Meetings and events 56

Enterprise stories 57

Investigative work 58

Features and profiles 60

Obituaries 61

Editorials 62

Exploring Emerging Digital Forms 63

Aggregated stories 63

Listicles 64

Explainers 65

Interactive stories 65

Chapter 5: Determining What's Newsworthy 67

Standards for Approving a Story Idea 68

The impact of the idea or event 68

The proximity of the occurrence to the news audience 69

The timeliness of the idea 70

The prominence of the people involved 71

The trendiness of the idea 71

How unusual a story is 72

How much conflict is present 72

What Drives Newsroom Decisions 73

Executive editors 73

Midlevel editors 74

Overall newsroom culture and interest 76

Working through Disagreements 77

Chapter 6: Finding Sources for a Story 79

What Is a Source 79

Types of Sources 81

Official and unofficial 81

Unofficial sources 82

Primary and secondary sources 84

People as Sources 85

Finding sources 85

Vetting sources 86

Developing long-term sources 87

The Voices Your Story Needs 88

What to include when reaching out 89

On or off the record? What it means 90

Chapter 7: Conducting Interviews 93

The Interview Process 94

Doing your research 94

Preparing questions 96

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Sommaire:

Arionne Nettles is a professor, culture reporter, and audio aficionado who serves as the Garth C. Reeves eminent scholar chair and instructor for digital journalism at Florida A&M University. She is also host of the HBCU history podcast Bragging Rights and Is That True? A Kids Podcast About Facts. Previously, Nettles worked as a digital producer at WBEZ and a multiplatform editor at the Associated Press....