The Broadcast News Toolkit focuses on the writing, shooting, and production of broadcast news across multimedia platforms in a non-technical and visually engaging way. Covering a range of different story forms in broadcast news (RDR, FS, VO, VO/SOT, PKG, and Liveshots), this book illustrates basic audio/video shooting and editing techniques through straightforward examples, including online vi…
The digital microcosms of journalism in Eastern and South Eastern Europe, as the research demonstrates, are at the same time both distinct from and integral to, the greater mediatic transformation and should be analyzed and understood in this context. In truth, all the issues under consideration are part of a larger global debate and phenomenon that is affecting more “established” media mar…
If journalism is the first draft of history, what will it say about COVID? The COVID-19 pandemic ripped through the world with no regard for borders, age, status or wealth. It was brutal in its impact and created a raft of new social norms. And without warning, the pandemic changed journalism, in some ways irrevocably. This arresting collection of essays from some of Australia's top media minds…
If you are looking to start developing your data self-defense and critical news consumption skills, this book is for you! It reflects a long-term collaboration between a statistician and a journalist to shed light on the statistics behind the stories and the stories behind the statistics. The only prerequisite for enjoying this book is an interest in developing the skills and insights for bette…