With a focus on how the modern newsroom runs and operates,
News Writing and Reporting: A Strategic Approach to Storytelling prepares students to become successful journalists in today′s competitive news industry. Author Chris Vaccaro applies an audience-centered and business-minded approach, discusses emerging media trends, and guides students through strategic thought in multiplatform reporting and storytelling. The book offers practical career tips, interviews with reporters, and full career and product development guides, while each chapter concludes with strategies and writing exercises to equip students with tactics for planning, structuring, and editing content across various platforms.
Tabla de materias
Chapter 1 What is News?
Chapter 2 The News Story
Chapter 3 Multiplatform Journalism
Chapter 4 Subjects, Sourcing, and Records
Chapter 5 Interview Skills
Chapter 6 Beat Coverage
Chapter 7 Writing Strategy and Style
Chapter 8 Story Structure, Sentence Construction, and Word Choice
Chapter 9 How News Organizations Work Today
Chapter 10 Longform and Feature Writing
Chapter 11 Journalism Jobs
Chapter 12 Writing for Video and Audio Platforms
Chapter 13 Media Law and Ethics
Appendix 1: Code of Ethics
Appendix 2: Product Development and News Technology
Appendix 3: Entrepreneurial Journalism
Appendix 4: List of Professional Journalism Groups
Sobre el autor
Chris R. Vaccaro is a media executive, professor, and author from Long Island. A multiple Emmy Award and Murrow Award winner, he has served as Vice President of Digital News at Altice USA and Director of Graduate Journalism and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University. Vaccaro is a former editor at the New York Daily News, AOL and The Topps Company (yes, baseball cards!), and former reporter at the Southampton Press. His work has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, ESPN, The Athletic, Sports Illustrated, Associated Press, and more. He is the author of eight books and has produced eight documentaries. In 2022 he was inducted to the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Society of Professional Journalists and the Press Club of Long Island. Vaccaro lives on Long Island with his wife Theresa, and children, Hunter, Thompson, and Stella.