Television News: A Handbook for Writing, Reporting, Shooting, and Editing

A book you can use from your broadcasting class through your beginning years in the television newsroom!

This book uses an integrated approach to teaching the fundamental skills of writing, reporting, shooting, and editing. This approach will enable you to learn the basics as interrelated processes that must be integrated to create an effective newscast. The book's comprehensive coverage allows readers to make important connections between writing, reporting, shooting, and editing. You will learn to think like a writer or editor when you are shooting or think like a videographer or editor when you are writing. You will learn about TV reporting as it is in the real world, where one professional frequently has to do it all.

In addition to the basics, this book helps readers develop more sophisticated skills, such as writing to the video and adapting the editing pace to the style of the story. The book also covers other essentials of broadcast news reporting, including developing sources, successful interviewing, using public records, and perfecting voice and performance.

Keller and Hawkins understand real-world newsroom pressures. Their dedication to high professional and ethical standards permeates the book. This handbook provides readers with a foundation for learning TV reporting by doing and will teach them how to integrate all the skills required for producing television news.