Radio-Tv Newswriting

Radio-TV news must be written in a simple, direct manner so a newscaster can read the copy easily and communicate effectively in a way that will help listeners and viewers understand complex issues and events the first time they hear about them. Radio - TV Newswriting: A Workbook, Second Edition gives students abundant opportunities to learn, practice and develop sound foundations for writing radio-TV news.

More than 100 pages of true-to-life writing exercises involve students in practicing techniques, skills and situations. Radio exercises include writing reader stories, actuality stories, wraparound stories, voicer stories, live reports and newscasts. TV exercises include writing reader stories, full-screen graphics stories, voice-overs, studio packages (VO/SOT), soundbites, reporter packages and live shots. Students will write stories from wire copy, news releases, fact sheets and reporters’ notes. New to this edition is a section devoted to writing for a station or network web site, including exercises in web writing.

The author (journalism, San Diego State U.) offers a foundation in the kind of simple, direct writing that is necessary in writing for radio and television news. Provides some 100 pages of real life-based writing exercises including wire copy, news releases, fact sheets, and reporters' notes. New to this edition (last appeared in 1995) is a section addressing writing for a station or network web site. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

K. TIM WULFEMEYER is a Professor in the Department of Journalism, School of Communication at San Diego State University and serves as the Coordinator of their Journalism Degree Program. He has extensive radio-TV news experience, both on-the-air and behind the scenes as writer, reporter, producer, photojournalist, newscaster and sportscaster for radio and television stations in California, Iowa, New Mexico, Texas and Hawaii.