The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence

The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence remains the most comprehensive text on editing across the entire journalism sphere. This new edition is even more expensive and shifts the coverage further to address more of the converged media world. Sections on broadcast, online, and multimedia editing have also been bulked up, with the boundaries and overlaps between those different formats laid out clearly. Authors Brian Brooks and James Pinson present the format, legalities, and structures of journalistic writing in a comprehensible and approachable format. The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence covers topics from writing headlines to fact-checking to helping students create readable and contemporary media writing. It includes real-world examples that highlight writing formats and concepts as practiced by professionals today. Readers of this text will come away with the know-how to edit both their own work and the work other others in a multimedia world.