News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter.

By: Cotter, Colleen
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type: text Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521819619 (hbk.); 052181961X (hbk.); 9780521525657 (pbk.); 0521525659 (pbk.)Subject(s): Journalism -- Language | Reporters and reportingDDC classification: 070.43 LOC classification: PN4781 | .C68 2010
Contents:
An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.

An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.

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