Public Affairs Reporting Now

News of, by and for the People
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-13682-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 398 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1077 g

Reporting Today's Most Needed News!

Zielgruppe

Professional journalists working at small or local broadcast news groups (papers, radio and TV news). Upper division communications students at the college level enrolled in Public Affairs Reporting classes, and graduate-level students studying the same.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Killenberg, George

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 The Roles and Realities of ReportingChapter 2 The Ways and Means of ReportingChapter 3 Striving for AccuracyChapter 4 Closed Meetings, Sealed Records and 'Off Limits' SignsChapter 5 The Neighborhood ApproachChapter 6 Government News for the PeopleChapter 7 Public Safety: Crimes to CorrectionsChapter 8 Into the Legal MazeChapter 9 The Trial and ThereafterChapter 10 Special Beats, New ChallengesChapter 11 Lessons in Law and Ethics

Über Autor(innen)

G. Michael Killenberg is professor and founding director of the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at USF St. Petersburg, a Program of Distinction at the university.

He joined USF in 1988 after 15 years at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, where he was director of graduate studies in mass communications. In his professional career, he has been a reporter and editor for weekly and daily newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

His publications have focused on media law, community reporting and ethics in news interviewing. He is the author of Public Affairs Reporting: Covering the News in the Information Age (1992), and co-author of Before the Story: Interviewing and Communication Skills for Journalists (1989); The Conversation of Journalism: Community, Communication and News (1994); and Interviewing: Speaking, Listening and Learning for Professional Life (1999). In 1998, he received the USF Professorial Excellence award.