News talk : investigating the language of journalism - Cotter, Colleen. 4 0 16; 5 (Cambridge ;;New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.
Keywords: 2 -- 0; 6; Language. -- Journalism;Reporters and reporting. -- 20; 20; 2