This newly revised edition of a bestselling text includes significant changes and helpful tools to familiarize students with the basic styles, principles and techniques of radio-TV newswriting. Through clear instruction, examples and exercises, beginning students learn how to:
Understand and Use basic radio-TV news terms, Write radio-TV news "reader" stories, write and edit copy to match pictures, graphics and video, write introductions to reporter packages, place attribution, title, age, address ad time elements in their proper place in a sentence, write direct and indirect quotations, number and individually voiced numbers and letters.