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Entertainment journalism : making it your career / Ben Falk.

By: Publisher: London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, ©2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 156 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138649378 (hbk)
  • 9781138649385 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.4497 F18 2018 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.A77 F35 2018
Contents:
Getting and breaking stories -- Entertainment journalism : in context -- Interviewing -- Junkets and red carpets -- Working with PRs -- Using social media -- Reviewing -- Working with different media -- Law & ethics -- Selling as a freelance -- Breaking into the industry.
Summary: "Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years' experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, reality TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include: - breaking a story - interviewing techniques - working at press junkets and red carpet events - working with PRs - selling as a freelance - using social media for reporting and networking - breaking into the industry. With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this would be an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-154) and index.

Getting and breaking stories -- Entertainment journalism : in context -- Interviewing -- Junkets and red carpets -- Working with PRs -- Using social media -- Reviewing -- Working with different media -- Law & ethics -- Selling as a freelance -- Breaking into the industry.

"Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years' experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, reality TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists. Topics include: - breaking a story - interviewing techniques - working at press junkets and red carpet events - working with PRs - selling as a freelance - using social media for reporting and networking - breaking into the industry. With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this would be an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist"-- Provided by publisher.

CAS Bachelor of Arts in Communication

Text in English

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