Authors: Janet Ewell, Michelle Balmeo, Ellen Austin, and Randy Hamm

Journalism: Publishing Across Media teaches the principles, practices and styles used in traditional and new media. It explains core journalism concepts in a student-friendly way to high school learners in first-year Journalism and Communication programs. In contrast to other journalism texts, this text stresses the importance of telling stories through visual and audio elements, as well as the written and spoken word. Examples of student and professional work accompany the text.

Table of Contents

Abbreviated Contents

Journalism: Publishing Across Media, 1st Edition

• Front Matter
• 1 - Bringing Information to an Audience
• 2 - News Values and Story Ideas
• 3 - Media Law
• 4 - Media Ethics
• 5 - Writing Breaking News and Developing Stories
• 6 - Writing General News Stories
• 7 - Writing Headlines and Captions
• 8 - Researching and Evaluating Sources
• 9 - Interviews and Attributions
• 10 - Feature Stories
• 11 - Sports
• 12 - Editorials, Opinion Pieces, Columns, Blogs and Cartoons
• 13 - Reviews—of Everything
• 14 - Letters to the Editor, Online Responses and Community Forums
• 15 - Designing with Purpose
• 16 - Visual and Multimedia Storytelling
• 17 - Advertising
• Photo Credits
• Glossary
• Index