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Cotter, Colleen.
News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
9780521525657 (pbk.)
Journalism--Language.
Reporters and reporting.
070.43 / C684
News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.
9780521525657 (pbk.)
Journalism--Language.
Reporters and reporting.
070.43 / C684