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Author(s): Vanessa Edwards
ISBN(s): 9780415734271, 0415734274
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.04 MB
Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0415734274 
ISBN 13: 9780415734271
Author: Vanessa Edwards

Research Skills for Journalists is a comprehensive, engaging and highly practical guide to developing the varied skillset needed for producing well researched, quality journalism across a range of platforms. Illustrated with original interviews and case studies, the book guides readers through a clear understanding of sources of news, as well as illustrating the skills needed to undertake successful digital and non-digital research and to conduct interviews for a variety of media. It examines the skills needed for basic data journalism and presents an in-depth exploration of the different research skills specific to producing print and online text, as well as those for broadcast and multimedia journalism. Key research skills explored in the book include: Developing digital research skills, including researching through search engines, messages boards, discussion groups and web forums, social media, apps, and using user generated content Working with data, including sourcing, auditing and analysing data, data visualisation and understanding the importance of accuracy and context Essential non-digital research skills, including telephone technique, using libraries and working with librarians, understanding copyright, working with picture libraries and research services, and producing freedom of information requests Working directly with people to research stories, including the power of persuasion, tracking down great contributors, managing and protecting sources, planning and managing interviews, and interviewing vulnerable people Researching for multimedia production of stories, including researching a radio story, podcast or video story, and planning for outside broadcasts. Research Skills for Journalists also explores specialist research skills needed for working overseas and investigates new areas, which could be used for journalism research in the future. The book is illustrated with original contributions by journalists from a variety of backgrounds; including veteran investigative journalist John Pilger, pioneering data journalist Simon Rogers and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s award-winning reporter Abigail Fielding-Smith. It is an invaluable guide for students and practitioners of journalism to the skills needed for finding and developing original news stories today.

Research Skills for Journalists 1st Table of contents:

  • Introduction

    • The journalist as researcher

    • How important is research?

    • What makes a great researcher?

    • Knowing your audience

    • An ‘angle’, scope and depth

    • The process of research

    • Ethics

  • Sources of News

    • Developing contacts and sources

    • Networking and cultivating a patch

    • Primary sources

    • Secondary sources

    • The life cycle of a news story

  • Digital Research

    • Search engines

    • Searching smart

    • The deep, invisible and Dark Web

    • Message boards, discussion groups and web forums

    • Social media

    • User generated content

    • Approaching sources online

    • Crowdsourcing stories

    • Apps for research

    • Useful web resources

    • Organising information

  • Data Journalism

    • A brief history

    • What makes a great data-driven story?

    • Sourcing data

    • Freedom of Information Act

    • Auditing data

    • Cleaning data

    • Analysing data

    • Data visualisation

    • The importance of accuracy and context

    • Elections

  • Non-digital Research

    • Telephone technique

    • SMS and app text messages

    • Letters and notes

    • Making sense of academic journals

    • Using libraries and working with librarians

    • Other libraries

    • Copyright

    • Risk assessments

  • People

    • The power of persuasion

    • Tracking down a great contributor

    • Managing and protecting sources

    • Sources and digital security

    • Undercover research

    • Making mistakes

  • Interviews

    • Different forms of interview

    • Doorstepping and death knocks

    • Interviewing vulnerable people

    • Planning an interview

    • Writing the questions

    • Managing your interviewee

    • Planning a court case

  • Print and Digital Text

    • Hard news

    • Planning across multiple text formats

    • Features

    • Pitching

    • Specialist journalism

    • Trade publications

    • A word of caution

  • Broadcast and Multimedia

    • Finding a great multimedia interviewee

    • Using archive material

    • Planning a radio story or podcast

    • Planning a video story

    • Secret recording

    • Researching for live broadcast or streaming

    • Outside broadcasts

    • Producing for multiple platforms

    • Multimedia health and safety

  • Working Overseas

    • Getting started

    • Freelance funding options

    • Travel, transport and communication

    • Sorting the paperwork

    • Safety

    • Personal security

    • What to take

    • When you arrive

    • Leaving in a hurry

    • Travel journalism

  • The Future

    • Production innovation

    • Communication developments

    • Wearable technology

    • Drones – the opportunities and ethics

    • Sensor journalism

    • New ways to research and tell stories

    • Journalism bots and who knows what!

    • Funding

    • The future of the researcher

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