As new-media news organizations continue to proliferate and traditional news media organizations ramp up their World Wide Web visibility, the ability to write news for online news products is fast becoming a requisite skill for both practicing journalists and journalists in training. Online Newswriting serves as a guide to help prepare practitioners for the brave new world of converging media and web page/Internet journalism. Students learn the basic mechanics, flow, style, tone, methods and techniques of online newswriting through numerous examples and models. Style tests let users easily...

Radio-TV news must be written in a simple, direct manner so a newscaster can read the copy easily and communicate effectively in a way that will help listeners and viewers understand complex issues and events the first time they hear about them. Radio - TV Newswriting: A Workbook, Second Edition gives students abundant opportunities to learn, practice and develop sound foundations for writing radio-TV news.More than 100 pages of true-to-life writing exercises involve students in practicing techniques, skills and situations. Radio exercises include writing reader stories, actuality stories,...