Chris R. Vaccaro 
News Writing and Reporting: A Strategic Approach to Storytelling [EPUB ebook] 

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.

Cuprins

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

Despre 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.