November 2012
Beginner
400 pages
10h 54m
English
‘Journalism – an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.’
– REBECCA WEST, NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE
There are some days when news just seems to fall into your lap. Everywhere you turn another story is breaking. Days like these are a journalist’s dream.
The nightmare begins in the holiday season when nothing seems to happen.
Most times the newsperson’s lot is somewhere between these extremes. What stories there are have to be dug for. Graft is required to turn a tip-off into hard facts.
The biggest source of news for any radio or TV station should be its reporting staff. Many local stations rightly insist that their journalists live in the community to which they are broadcasting. Through everyday contact ...
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