Overview
Airwords is a hands-on workbook with numerous exercises and writing examples that focuses on developing writing skills for broadcast news.
Synopsis
Airwords is a hands-on workbook with numerous exercises and writing examples that focuses on developing writing skills for broadcast news.
Booknews
An introductory text for broadcast newswriting, with numerous exercises and examples illustrating broadcast news style. Defines and explains standard industry formats, rules, and procedures, and covers fact checking, ethics, script formats, shifting from print to broadcast, writing leads, interviews, aspects of TV writing, and copyediting and producing. Includes chapter glossaries. This second edition discusses technology advances such as wire capture and producing from CRTs. Lacks a bibliography. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)