WRITING NEWS FOR TELEVISION

By Victoria McCullough Carroll. What is a package? What is vo or vo/nat or sot? Are you on cam? This manual not only provides a complete course in TV news writing, but also demystifies the terminology, business, and technology of the industry. In-depth chapters offer classroom-tested writing exercises that cover building a news story from beginning to end, interviewing techniques, integrating voiceovers with natural sound and screen graphics, producing TV news, landing that important first job, and much more. An extensive teacher’s guide (free with each order) provides lesson plans, discussion questions, quizzes, and assignments. Advanced students. Index. Blackwell Publishing. 397 pages. Second Edition. ©2004.

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