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News talk : investigating the language of journalism /

by Cotter, Colleen.
Published by : Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge :) Physical details: xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. ISBN: 0521525659 Subject(s): Journalism %Language. | Reporters and reporting. Year: 2010
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Book Book AUM Main Library English Collections Hall 070.43 C684 (Browse Shelf) Available JBC/2012/1370
Book Book AUM Main Library English Collections Hall 070.43 C684 (Browse Shelf) Available JBC/2012/1370

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.

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