Description
An A-to-Z guide to succeed in the newsroom or refresh rusty journalistic skills, this handbook offers insight into how newspapers are composed. This fully revised and updated edition is interactive, with exercises, discussions, case studies, and checklists supplementing the information at every stage. Including all the practical hints, tips, and real-life South African case studies, it also adds important new elements to reflect the current media climate as well as the opinions of several respected South African journalists.
An A-to-Z guide to succeed in the newsroom or refresh rusty journalistic skills, this handbook offers insight into how newspapers are composed. This fully revised and updated edition is interactive, with exercises, discussions, case studies, and checklists supplementing the information at every stage. Including all the practical hints, tips, and real-life South African case studies, it also adds important new elements to reflect the current media climate as well as the opinions of several respected South African journalists.
About the Author
Gwenda Estelle Ansell is a freelance journalist, a media trainer, a consultant, and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a contributor to Business Day and the Mail & Guardian, a representative of the South African National Editors Forum Education and Training subcommittee, and a member of the Forum of African Investigative Reporters' advisory board.
Reviews
Those of us who teach with a view to raising a generation of questioning, critical, thoughtful, connected human beings who care about information as a powerful commodity to change people's lives [welcome] Gwen Ansell's marvelous book making its way into publication." - Anthea Garman, senior lecturer, dept. of journalism and media studies, Rhodes University
Book Information
ISBN 9781770098381
Author Gwen Ansell
Page Count 382
Imprint Jacana Media
Publisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 15mm
An A-to-Z guide to succeed in the newsroom or refresh rusty journalistic skills, this handbook offers insight into how newspapers are composed. This fully revised and updated edition is interactive, with exercises, discussions, case studies, and checklists supplementing the information at every stage. Including all the practical hints, tips, and real-life South African case studies, it also adds important new elements to reflect the current media climate as well as the opinions of several respected South African journalists.
About the Author
Gwenda Estelle Ansell is a freelance journalist, a media trainer, a consultant, and a lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a contributor to Business Day and the Mail & Guardian, a representative of the South African National Editors Forum Education and Training subcommittee, and a member of the Forum of African Investigative Reporters' advisory board.
Reviews
Those of us who teach with a view to raising a generation of questioning, critical, thoughtful, connected human beings who care about information as a powerful commodity to change people's lives [welcome] Gwen Ansell's marvelous book making its way into publication." - Anthea Garman, senior lecturer, dept. of journalism and media studies, Rhodes University
Book Information
ISBN 9781770098381
Author Gwen Ansell
Page Count 382
Imprint Jacana Media
Publisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 15mm
