News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter.

By:

Cotter, Colleen

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511712517
0511712510
0511714599
9780511714597
9780511811975
0511811977
9780511722653
0511722656
9786612560750
6612560754
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9781107209589
0511846533
9780511846533
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9781282560758
0511713347
9780511713347
0511715846
9780511715846

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: News talk.DDC classification:

070.43 22

LOC classification:

PN4781 .C68 2010

Other classification:

G212
AP 16000
HF 642
HF 144

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Contents:

An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.

Review: "Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort a story that was prepared with the most determined effort to be fair and accurate. Using insights from both linguistics and journalism, News Talk is a remarkable picture of a hidden world and its working practices on both sides of the Atlantic. It will interest those involved in language study, media and communication studies and those who want to understand how media shape our language and our view of the world."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-271) and index.

"Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort a story that was prepared with the most determined effort to be fair and accurate. Using insights from both linguistics and journalism, News Talk is a remarkable picture of a hidden world and its working practices on both sides of the Atlantic. It will interest those involved in language study, media and communication studies and those who want to understand how media shape our language and our view of the world."--Jacket.

English.

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