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Specialist Journalism

Barry Turner editor Richard Orange editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:13th Dec '12

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Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex information for science. The book will also discuss how specialist journalists have contributed to the mainstream news agenda, as well as analysing how different issues have been covered in each specialism, such as the credit crunch, global warming, national crime statistics and the celebrity culture in sport. Areas covered include:

  • Sport
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Crime
  • Environment
  • Fashion
  • Food
  • Music
  • Media
  • Science
  • Health
  • Law
  • Travel
  • War
  • Wine
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'Now thanks to Barry Turner and Richard Orange we have a useful and interesting edited collection from which our students can begin to study this now essential part of any Journalism course's curriculum [...] Recommended' - Journal of the Association for Journalism Education, Issue 2-1, May 2013

ISBN: 9780415582841

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 590g

228 pages