Practical Newspaper Reporting - Spark, David

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Résumé :
Now in its fourth edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry. Today, as ever, it provides students of newspaper journalism with a toolkit for gathering news and filling ever-increasing space with first-rate copy for print and online.

Detailed and down-to-earth, this book delivers:

. Guidance on news gathering, from government and business to sport and religion

. Guidance on news writing, drawing on over 300 examples that have appeared in print, discussing why they work or how they could have been better

. Guidance on feature writing, including profiles, comment, leading articles, obituaries and reviews

. Specific chapters on ethical reporting and the possibilities and pitfalls of investigative journalism

. A review of the new financial realities that the internet is imposing on the media.

Informed by over half a century's professional experience and fully revised to give a nuanced account of the skills required in an online environment, this book is an essential companion for your journalism degree and beyond.

Biographie:
David Spark is a veteran tech journalist and founder of?Spark Media Solutions, a brand journalism firm that helps its clients be seen as leading voices in their field through brand-quality media production.?...

Sommaire:
David Spark started reporting in 1953 at the Lancaster Guardian and transferred in 1955 to The Northern Echo, Darlington, where he soon became a sub-editor. Then, in 1959, he was ?John North?, the Ech?s travelling feature writer, visiting towns and villages throughout North-East England. He later took up leader writing and was appointed assistant editor in 1965. In 1967 he transferred, as leader and feature writer, to the London office of Westminster Press Provincial Newspapers, eventually becoming assistant London editor. He turned freelance when the office closed in 1986, writing features for newspapers at home and abroad, notably the Financial Times. Since 1986 he has edited the newsletter of the Commonwealth Journalists Association, which records the struggles of journalists throughout the Commonwealth to report despite poverty and political pressures....

David Spark's down to earth advice on the essentials of reporting is distilled from a lifetime of experience but as fresh and practical as if he were at your elbow in the newsroom. His newcomers' guide to the web as a tool for reporting is especially useful Sir Harold Evans former Editor of The Sunday Times

To those who may think that formal journalism is a dying art this book offers a splendid rejoinder. It is for all those who purport to write that others may read Sir Simon Jenkins Guardian columnist and former Editor of The Times