'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice knows what he does is indefensible.' That is how the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm sees the business of reporting, at the start of her book The Journalist and ...
Author: Kim Fletcher
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781509822348
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 288
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This comprehensive, informative and witty guide offers expert advice on everything you need to know about the industry. From starting up, through pitching your first story, to getting a scoop and avoiding libel, this book offers all the useful hints, advice and contacts you require to be the best. The Journalist's Handbook contains vital information on media law, privacy and ethics, and looks at market awareness and the rise of internet journalism. There is also good advice on different writing techniques for quality, middle market and popular papers, on surviving as a freelance and advancing in your career. Interspersed with anecdotes and tips from journalists on Britain's leading publications (Observer, Express, Star, The Times, Q, Glamour), the handbook is rounded off with a list of indispensable contacts and sources.