Modern News Editing,9780813807720

Modern News Editing

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Edition: 5th
ISBN13: 9780813807720
ISBN10: 0813807727
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-08-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

"The Modern News Editing CD-ROM is packed with exercises to practice the concepts taught. Microsoft Word and plain text files feature editable sentences and stories containing problems with spelling, grammar, style, and incorrect facts. Page templates in QuarkXpress and Adobe InDesign are presented for use in page design exercises. A formatted Web site is also provided for practice in online news presentation. Modern News Editing is the textbook of choice to train future editors, whether they work for a print newsroom or an online publication."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Mark D. Ludwig is an assistant professor in the Communications Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches classes in reporting and editing. He has worked as an editor in various capacities at nine newspapers – including the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury News – and a magazine, Business 2.0.

Gene Gilmore, author of the first four editions of Modern Newspaper Editing, started his journalism teaching career at Syracuse University and spent more than 20 years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has worked on 13 newspapers, including a weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the now defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments viii
Editing in the Age of Convergence
3(26)
Deciding What's News
29(12)
The Editor in the Newsroom
41(16)
Editors as Managers
57(14)
Working With Stories
71(24)
Word Watching
95(12)
Writing Headlines
107(20)
Editors and Design
127(30)
Editing Photos and Graphics
157(16)
Editing News Services
173(10)
Imagination in News Editing
183(14)
When News Breaks
197(12)
Editing and the Law
209(18)
Editing and Ethics
227(16)
Policy and Responsibility
243(14)
Glossary 257(12)
Bibliography 269(4)
Index 273

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