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Writing for Electronic Media

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Brian Champagne

Copyright Year: 2017

Publisher: Rebus Community

Language: English

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Reviewed by Lance Liguez, Specialist/Faculty Adviosr, University of Texas at Arlington on 3/13/24

This book covers all the duties, roles, and expectations of a broadcast journalist in TV and radio along with common terminology. read more

Reviewed by Katherine Allred, Adjunct, Pittsburg State University on 12/19/22

For anyone who is unfamiliar with the news field or needs a refresher, this is a good Open Educational Resource to use. It is simple but detailed. read more

Reviewed by Tom Hansen, Sr. Lecturer Communicating Arts Department, University of Wisconsin - Superior on 9/20/21

COMPREHESIVENESS: This textbook is a thorough overview of a television broadcast newsroom and daily operations with a section on radio included. The first-hand accounts that worked for the broadcast journalist author throughout the book are a... read more

Reviewed by Greg Cunningham, Adjunct Professor - Communication, Bridgewater State University on 6/1/20

The text covers a full range of topics on writing for television, but spends only one chapter on radio and does not address the use of cross-over mediums such as podcasts or websites. The authors are all working in the industry, and provide... read more

Table of Contents

  • 1. The Newsroom
  • 2. Leads
  • 3. Common Mistakes
  • 4. Interviewing
  • 5. VOs
  • 6. VOSOTs
  • 7. PKGs
  • 8. Producing
  • 9. Teases and Promos
  • 10. Live Shots
  • 11. Social Media
  • 12. Working With Photographers
  • 13. Radio
  • 14. Sports
  • 15. Motivation and Ethics
  • 16. The Job Market

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About the Book

Welcome to Writing for Electronic Media, an OER textbook. OER stands for Open Educational Resource, which means it’s free for all who access. Since it is electronic, I will do what I can to keep it updated with the changing media. People’s viewing habits are changing as they migrate to mobile sources, social media, and kitten videos.Television News is still a dominant #1 source, and radio is still the safest way to stay informed in your car. Hopefully, you already have some journalism background. This book does not teach the who, what, when, where, why, and how of reporting; its goal is to teach how to present the journalism you already know via electronic media, primarily television.

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Author

Brian Champagne,Utah State University, he started his career 1988 at KGET (NBC) in Bakersfield, California. He then worked at KEYT (ABC) in the Santa Barbara station’s Santa Maria Bureau. After building up a photographer’s resume under renowned photographer Herb Tuyay, he went on to KTXL (Fox) in Sacramento. He worked with some great reporters there, and started his on-camera work reporting on the Automotive Beat. He also promoted to Chief Photographer, supervising a staff of nine. After ten years in Sacramento he was hired to staff the KUTV (CBS) Utah County Bureau in the Salt Lake City market. He took some time out from news to work on a college sports show and do corporate video and commercials before going back to KUTV and resuming his Automotive reporting once a week. Now full-time at USU, he does fill-in shifts at Salt Lake City affiliates, shoots news video for affiliates and networks, and produces a weekly automotive news segment for KSTU (Fox).

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