Mervin Block
Autor(a) de Writing Broadcast News, Rev. Ed.
About the Author
Mervin Block is a broadcast writing coach and the author of Writing Broadcast News and Broadcast Newswriting: The RTDNA Reference Guide. He has worked as a staff writer for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and the ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and as a freelancer at NBC News. mostrar mais Previously, he was a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor. He has written for Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Dan Rather and Mike Waliace. As an adjunct professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, he taught broadcast newswriting for more than 30 years. Block holds a master's from Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism and a certificate from Columbia University's J-School. In 2004, the Chicago Press Veterans Association selected him as Press Veteran of the Year. He lives in New York City. mostrar menos
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Writing Broadcast News ― Shorter, Sharper, Stronger… de Mervin Block
Block's a bit too gleeful at knocking aside writers' crutches. After all, they support a lot of reporters through tight deadlines. But cliche's always a listener turnoff. It should be treated like scaffolding and taken down before the work's done. The first chapter, a style primer in the Strunk & White vein, is worth re-reading.
Mervin Block has written a tell-all, scathingly honest account of what goes on behind the scenes in a newsroom.
Weighing Anchors delivers an honest scrutiny that is both hilarious and deeply concerning. It has most certainly called into question most of the news reporting that the general public has been exposed to.
From delivering bad journalism to deliberately misunderstanding situations that rub off onto the public, each newscaster is picked apart.
When the populous would rather have entertainment than true facts, doesn't it stand to reason that larger entities (such as news networks) exploit it to the farthest degree?
Read the entire review here:
Bookend Chronicles… (mais)
Weighing Anchors delivers an honest scrutiny that is both hilarious and deeply concerning. It has most certainly called into question most of the news reporting that the general public has been exposed to.
From delivering bad journalism to deliberately misunderstanding situations that rub off onto the public, each newscaster is picked apart.
When the populous would rather have entertainment than true facts, doesn't it stand to reason that larger entities (such as news networks) exploit it to the farthest degree?
Read the entire review here:
Bookend Chronicles… (mais)
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- 5
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- #311,767
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- 4.8
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- 2
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