News talk : investigating the language of journalism / 6
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Colleen Cotter.
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- xiii, 280 p. : ill. 23 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.
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.