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Newswriting in Transition
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This breakthrough text teaches students how to become successful newswriters in a complex scoiety with a changing new media. Laakaniemi begins with an introduction to newswriting, including the nature of news, the newsroom, reader habits, and writer habits. Next, he provides step-by-step instructions on media writing: putting words, sentences, and paragraphs together; organizing stories in the inverted pyramid and other formulas; writing feature stories; and writing for radio and television. Finally, Laakaniemi explores the role of the rewrite.
