Editing Today
2. Auflage August 1996
288 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In this era of media convergence, the second edition of Editing
Today continues the evolutionary transformation of Martin L.
Gibson's classic Editing in the Electronic Era,
introducing prospective journalists to the basics of editing and
design by following a true story through these processes at a major
newspaper, on the newspaper's Web desk, and on its TV outlet.
Readers are guided through the fundamentals of editing both words
and layout with contemporary software.
Expanded and updated sections address pagination, verifying
information, grammar, wordiness, editing the hard-news story,
telling the news in other ways, copyright law, design, Photoshop,
page layout, and Web design. Through more photos, more examples,
and more compelling design, the textbook and workbook of Editing
Today, 2nd Edition effectively prepare journalism students and
working professionals for the challenges of editing and designing
in this era of media convergence. The related Editing Today
Workbook, Second Edition, provides practical exercises to
sharpen student skills.
Editing Today, Second Edition is a first-class textbook
for students and faculty in journalism and mass communication
programs and a comprehensive reference for professional
journalists
I. THE COPY EDITOR'S JOB.
The Evolution of a News Story.
Life on the Copy Desk.
II. HELPING REPORTERS TELL THEIR STORIES.
Grammar.
Punctuation.
Idiom and Syntax.
Editing the Hard-News Story.
Other Ways to Tell the News.
Editing Copy from the Wire Services.
Math and the Journalist.
Writing Headlines.
Editors, Law and Ethics.
III. USING PICTURES, GRAPHICS AND DESIGN.
Typography.
Editing Photographs and Graphics.
The Basics of Page Design.
Editing and Designing Web Pages.
Appendixes.
Index.
of Central Florida in Orlando. Smith has worked for newspapers in
Indiana, Ohio and Florida, and published numerous articles in
Journalism Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal, Collegiate
Journalist, Quill and Journalism Eudcator. He was a
research fellow at the Poynter Institute and co-authored Groping
for Ethics in Journalism with Gene Goodwin, assuming sole
authorship on the fourth edition.
Loraine M. O'Connell is the Deputy Lifestyle Editor
at The Orlando Sentinel, where she has worked since 1985.
Her other positions have included metro and national copy editor,
wire editor for the Newsfeatures Department, and columnist and
feature writer. O'Connell's work has been published in
newspapers across the country, including The Dallas Morning
News, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post
