Reporting in a Multimedia World
February 21st 2012 00:17
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An introduction to core journalism skills
Reporting in a Multimedia World
Barbara Alysen, Mandy Oakham, Roger Patching and Gail Sedorkin
AUD $49.99 inc. GST
Reporting in a multimedia world is an excellent course book providing a comprehensive breakdown of what the title suggests. It is contemporaneous enough to provide the reader/student with information that is relevant without seeming lacking or basically dated in today's rapidly expanding environment when it comes to technology and available resources.
No book is going to completely prepare a person for a particular career, it simply does not work that way - you do get very good coverage on the subject here and the break down of components or elements in the process is comprehensive and easy to follow; it's a good level players field to start with and there's a lot to encourage you to find more answers on your own, so without trying too hard to be a motivating agent it succeeds as that.
There are good tips along the way that seem pretty sensible without being too prescriptive and the overall language is easily understood.
Communication is a key factor in any reporting, so it bodes well that the book communicates clearly and without getting bogged down in the subject matter at all.
The first edition came out early in the new millennium and this edition, the second, has been updated in 2011 so it is really quite up to date and offering the authors' best suggestions to encourage and influence the directions a student may take into the vast world of reporting. Great media and communications work book to introduce students to the core skills that constitute journalism.
The photographs and diagrams are easy to understand and reflect a real world rather than an imagined whitewashed one without being overtly disconcerting or graphic.
I think I'd be very happy with it as a course of instruction from a teaching and a learning point of view.
Barbara Alysen, Mandy Oakham, Roger Patching and Gail Sedorkin
AUD $49.99 inc. GST
Reporting in a multimedia world is an excellent course book providing a comprehensive breakdown of what the title suggests. It is contemporaneous enough to provide the reader/student with information that is relevant without seeming lacking or basically dated in today's rapidly expanding environment when it comes to technology and available resources.
No book is going to completely prepare a person for a particular career, it simply does not work that way - you do get very good coverage on the subject here and the break down of components or elements in the process is comprehensive and easy to follow; it's a good level players field to start with and there's a lot to encourage you to find more answers on your own, so without trying too hard to be a motivating agent it succeeds as that.
There are good tips along the way that seem pretty sensible without being too prescriptive and the overall language is easily understood.
Communication is a key factor in any reporting, so it bodes well that the book communicates clearly and without getting bogged down in the subject matter at all.
The photographs and diagrams are easy to understand and reflect a real world rather than an imagined whitewashed one without being overtly disconcerting or graphic.
I think I'd be very happy with it as a course of instruction from a teaching and a learning point of view.
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