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Aiming at trainee journalists and media studies students, this book explains the factors that influence journalists' news judgment and explores how and why audiences react to news. Journalism faces an identity crisis. The sheer range of news sources now available offers readers, listeners and viewers more choice than ever before. New technology gives people the chance to interact with the news, challenging traditional notions of journalism. Spin and the growth of the PR culture means journalists find it harder to get to the truth. As a result, deep-ploughing questions are being asked: What is journalism? What is the role of the journalist? How do we achieve the relevance that will help us hold onto the audience? Not least, what is news anyway? Aimed at trainee journalists and PR executives as well as media studies students, this accessible and comprehensive introduction to news evaluation explains the factors that influence journalists' news judgment, and explores how and why audiences react to news. Writing from a professional and academic perspective, former BBC journalist John Venables answers many outstanding puzzles about the nature of news, and reveals how to select and write stories that are relevant to the audience. He examines the operational factors that affect news coverage and looks at the structural influences that determine the way journalists see the world. He asks to what degree journalism is governed by spin-doctors and other external influences, and delves into the way our use of language can shape the news agenda. With the help of leading evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists John uses risk communication theory to model audience response to news. His findings shed new light on how we relate to the world about us, and offer a practical tool to help journalists write and select news that will be meaningful to the audience. This thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the popular textbook "What is News?" (ELM Publications, 1993) includes the latest theories, contemporary examples and a discussion of the future role of journalism.

About the Author :
John Venables, 50, graduated from Southampton University with a degree in Modern History, Politics and Philosophy in 1977. After trying a variety of jobs he gained a postgraduate Diploma in Radio Journalism from Highbury College, Portsmouth and joined the BBC in 1984. After six years in local radio as a journalist and journalism instructor, he became one of the BBC's first bi-media correspondents, covering science and environmental issues for both radio and television. He then went on to set up and run the BBC local radio school in Romania, before moving to television as a reporter. Most recently he was a science journalist at BBC News Online, one of the world's premier news web sites. As well as journalism, John has pursued a parallel career in media training and consultancy. He was media trainer to the University of Cambridge 1990-6, and national media-training advisor and trainer to the Environment Agency 1996-2003. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and author of Handling Publicity the Right Way and Communication Skills for Engineers and Scientists. The original research for this book was supported by a BP Press Fellowship to Wolfson College, Cambridge. The first edition of this book, entitled What is News?, was published in 1993 and has since appeared on recommended and compulsory reading lists of journalism and media studies courses across the country. John Venables lives in rural north Suffolk with his wife Lesley and a variety of livestock and wildlife.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781854501264
  • Publisher: Elm Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Elm Publications
  • Edition: New edition
  • Sub Title: News Values and Risk Signalling in Journalism
  • ISBN-10: 1854501267
  • Publisher Date: /07/2005
  • Binding: Spiral bound
  • Height: 210 mm


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