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Advanced Reporting

Discovering Patterns in News Events, Second Edition

 

Donald L. Shaw, Maxwell McCombs, and Gerry Keir

 

The volume represents a comprehensive survey of the skills needed to select, gather, organize, and present information to audiences in today’s competitive mass media market. The authors assert that news media do not necessarily know the solutions to the many problems challenging our complex and dynamic social system, but the news media have the power and ability to set the agenda, to shift the spotlight of attention from one topic to another.

Lovell, Reporting Public Affairs, 2/E

Mayeux, Broadcast News Writing and Reporting, 2/E

 

$33.95 list, 361 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-912-1

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-912-3

© 1997

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Table of Contents

 

Part I. THE PROFESSION OF JOURNALISM
1. Patterns
2. The Skills of the Professional Journalist
3. Vantage Points
Part II. BEATS, INTERVIEWS, AND SOURCES
4. Beats
5. Personal Interviews
6. Digging In: Students Pursue a Trail of Heroin
Part III. COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
7. Surveying the Public
8. Good and Bad Surveys
9. Using the Self-Administered Survey
Part IV. DOCUMENTS AND ELECTRONIC RECORDS
10. Documents
11. Using Databases for Reporting
12. Reporters, Teams, and Computer-Assisted Reporting
Part V. ENTERING THE EVENT
13. Participant Observation
14. Field Experiments
15. How Voters Use News Media to Learn about Issues
Part VI. PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
16. Journalists Are Objective
17. Encouraging and Influencing Community Change
18. Getting Ready for the Twenty-First Century