Advancing the Story
Quality Journalism in a Digital World
- Debora Halpern Wenger - University of Mississippi, USA
- Deborah Potter - Newslab
“This textbook takes a systematic approach to teaching broadcast and multimedia journalism to students. Easy to follow [and] very relatable for students. Visually appealing…Love this textbook.”
—Beth Bingham Georges, California State University, Fullerton
Updated Edition of Bestseller!
It’s a multimedia world, and today’s journalists must develop a multimedia mindset. How does this way of thinking change the newsgathering and news production processes? Having conceived of and written their book in this changed media landscape, broadcast veterans Wenger and Potter seamlessly build on the fundamentals of good news reporting while teaching students to use depth, interactivity and immediacy as they maximize the advantages of each platform.
While retaining the book’s clear instruction and advice from those in the trenches, Advancing the Story, Fourth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest issues and trends with:
- greater emphasis on social media and mobile media to gather, promote and disseminate news content;
- expanded coverage of media ethics and media law;
- extended examples of effective reporting across multiple platforms;
- updated writing exercises and new resources for reviewing AP style; and
- additional interviews with journalists at the forefront of industry changes.
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It's a multimedia world, and today's journalists must develop a multimedia mindset. How does this way of thinking change the newsgathering and news production processes? Having conceived of and written their book in this changed media landscape, broadcast veterans Wenger and Potter seamlessly build on the fundamentals of good television reporting while teaching students to use depth, interactivity and immediacy as they maximize the advantages of each platform. To show how the book's lessons work in the field, every chapter includes interactive chapter exercises, skill-building tutorials and analysis from journalism experts.
“This textbook takes a systematic approach to teaching broadcast and multimedia journalism to students. Easy to follow [and] very relatable for students. Visually appealing…Love this textbook.”
“A soup to nuts, everything but the kitchen sink approach to the news business today.”
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Summary of changes: The chapter opens with an updated coverage scenario illustrating the role social media plays for many journalists on a daily basis. Additional discussion of social media’s importance in engaging audience is included, as well as an “Ethics in Action” feature, which focuses on tools for ethical decision making. Six new images were added and Table 1.1 and Figure 1.1 have been updated with new data and statistics.
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Summary of changes: This chapter now includes a section on the “slow journalism” movement and a discussion of how to interview for multiple platforms, as well as a new Know & Tell feature on finding stories. The Ethics in Action segments cover the importance of diverse sources and ethical interviews. A new ethics question has been added to the end-of-chapter pedagogy. Five new images were added, along with new examples of interview policies.
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Summary of changes: This chapter has a significant number of changes – it now incorporates much greater detail on using smartphones and drones in the newsgathering process. A new Trade Tools is specifically designed for MMJs and Ethics in Action segments focus on staging video and appropriate use of undercover reporting. This chapter also includes nine new images, including a series of five to illustrate video sequencing, and a new “Know and Tell” feature on interviewing.
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Summary of changes: Added social media to the reporting checklist; added Ethics in Action sections on interview agreements and the links you choose to include in your story. We’ve also added or updated 10 images in the chapter.
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Summary of changes: This is an entirely new chapter with sections on finding stories and engaging audience, as well as best practices for creating ethical and effective content for social platforms. This chapter relies on the latest research about social media as a newsgathering and dissemination tool and has all new Know & Tell and Trade Tools features, as well as all new images.
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Summary of changes: Added Ethics in Action on plagiarism and fabrication, and a section on fairness.
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Summary of changes: At the suggestion of reviewers, we’ve added a significant amount of material on writing in the print style. We have new examples of writing for broadcast and the web, and a new Know & Tell on the use of Twitter as a “notebook” for field reporters. Ethical use of news releases and a new ethics questions related to social media have been added to the chapter as well.
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Summary of changes: Added ethics discussions of digital manipulation of video, audio and images.
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Summary of changes: We added a section on how to create newsworthy memes, significantly revised the section on creating slide shows, discussed best practices in producing content for specific social media platforms, added more on mobile reporting and created a new section on immersive storytelling, including AR, VR and 360. New data and references were added.
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Summary of changes: We added a new Know & Tell on producing and updated information about audience measurement. Ethics in Action segments deal with fair use and content agreements. Expanded discussion on the producer’s role in social media and updated section on the future of video news delivery.
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Summary of changes: We added new perspectives from various digital producers, revised the section on producing mobile content, user-generated content (UGC) and crowdsourcing. We added ethics sections on corrections, use of UGC and native advertising. New sections on chat bots, voice interaction and multimedia storytelling are also included.
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Summary of changes: We updated sections on stand ups and live reporting. New ethics challenges focus on live reporting and we add best practices for live streaming in a new Trade Tools. Signifcant new material added on podcasting.
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Summary of changes: We updated multimedia job searching data and the section on personal branding. We incorporated a new Know & Tell on job hunting and added new discussion of on-the-job challenges, such as safety on live shots and protection from sex harassment. New salary data and updates on the journalism business are also included.
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