Broadcast Newswriting: The RTDNA Reference Guide, A Manual for Professionals

By Mervin Block

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This professional manual has been revised and updated. It features Merv Block′s countless do′s and don′ts, distilling them into a handy set of pointers. Journalists who are stumped by a problem can consult the book′s many chapters for mini-lessons on how to deal with it.

Chapters are clustered in easy-to-use categories, focusing on writing scripts. And righting scripts. The book stresses the need for accuracy-and shows how to shoot for accuracy.Block points to action verbs and points out dozens of words not to use. And tells why not to use them. "Every writer needs an editor" is a truism, but editors are vanishing. So Block tells how a writer can be her own editor. His own, too. Block wraps up the guide with challenges for the reader to rewrite several wire stories; then he shows how he rewrote them.This book is bound to be read, re-read, thumbed through, and consulted when a question arises-and the book will be kept within reach. Whenever students (and others) write a script, they′ll thank you. (And you′ll silently thank Block.)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1608714160
• ISBN13: 9781608714162
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: CQ Press College
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.8"