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1 Journalism in an Age of Social Media |
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Journalism and social media: the reality - Building your brand - Twitter as a news source - Social media and public opinion - How to survive being trolled - Coronavirus, misinformation and social media - Thinking time - Filter bubbles |
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2 What Makes a Good Reporter? |
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Attitudes - Character - Getting the right start |
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Panel: How to impress editors |
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3 The Limitations of Journalism |
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Owners' priorities - The journalistic culture - Readers' values |
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What is news? -- News values - News value factors - |
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A sliding scale for stories - Beauty and news values - Fake news - A word about good news |
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5 Where Do Good Stories Come From? |
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The habits of successful reporters - Getting out and about - News editors - Non-obvious sources - Other productive areas - Stories that good reporters avoid Panel: Humanitarian crises |
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What you should be looking for - Where to get it - Researching online - Printed sources - Research as a foreign correspondent Panel: Researching a feature |
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7 Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You |
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Guidelines for dealing with any source - Official sources - Handling unauthorised sources - Unattributable sources `off the record' |
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How to approach people - The most useful questions in journalism - Questioning uneasy sources - Questioning elusive, evasive and hostile sources - Questioning by email - Press conferences - Big name interviews Panel: Interviews that challenge the subject's image |
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9 Reporting Numbers and Statistics |
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Questioning data - The uses and abuses of statistics - Averages -- Distribution - Percentages - Per head - Surveys - Opinion polls - Correlation - Projections - Real versus apparent rise - Probability - Phoney science |
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10 Investigative Reporting |
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What is investigative reporting? - Productive areas to investigate - Investigative reporting skills - Computer literacy - How to run investigative operations - Going undercover |
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11 How to Cover Major Incidents |
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Case history: Hurricane Katrina, 2005 - How to make sure your coverage of a disaster doesn't turn into one - Death tolls - The death call -- Professionalism under pressure |
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Panel: Disaster reportingfrom multiple sources |
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12 Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes |
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Mistakes - How should you respond to mistakes? - Great newspaper hoaxes |
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General guidelines -- Grey areas - Privacy - Paying for information or an interview |
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Panel: A little ethical dilemma |
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14 Writing News and Features |
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Planning - Clarity - Fresh language - Honesty - Precision - Suitability - Efficiency - Fluency - Revision - Is writing for online different to writing for papers and magazines? - The joys of writing Panel: The writing brain |
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How to write sharp intros - Hard news approach - Other approaches - A word about feature intros Panel: Intros and the value of detail |
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16 Construction and Description |
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Construction guidelines - Analysing story structures - Payoffs - Attribution - Description Panel: An early lesson in description |
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When do you use quotes? - Accuracy - Efficiency - Attributing quotes - Inventing quotes |
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18 Different Ways to Tell a S tory |
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Different approaches - Colour pieces - Backgrounders - Analysis - Vox pops - Shooting video |
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19 Comment, Intentional and Otherwise |
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Comment in news stories - The big I - Analysis - Obituaries - Leaders or editorial opinion pieces - Columnists - Reviews |
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Panel: Travel writing for grown-ups |
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Panel: Obituary news reports |
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20 How to Be a Great Reporter |
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Hard work - The application of intelligence - Intellectual courage - Meticulousness - Consuming appetite for books - A good knowledge of journalism's past - Obsessive nature |
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| Reading for Journalists |
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| Index |
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