Cotter, Colleen.
News talk investigating the language of journalism / [[Book] :] Colleen Cotter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.
An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.
All age.
9780521819619 (hbk.) 052181961X (hbk.) 9780521525657 (pbk.) 0521525659 (pbk.)
2010293283
GBA9A8635 bnb
015415053 Uk
Journalism--Language.
Reporters and reporting.
PN4781 / .C68 2010
070.43
/ CN
News talk investigating the language of journalism / [[Book] :] Colleen Cotter. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.
An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.
All age.
9780521819619 (hbk.) 052181961X (hbk.) 9780521525657 (pbk.) 0521525659 (pbk.)
2010293283
GBA9A8635 bnb
015415053 Uk
Journalism--Language.
Reporters and reporting.
PN4781 / .C68 2010
070.43
/ CN