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This professional manual has been revised and updated. It features Merv Block's countless do's and don'ts, distilling them into a handy set of pointers. Journalists who are stumped by a problem can consult the book's many chapters for mini-lessons on how to deal with it.
Chapters are clustered in easy-to-use categories, focusing on writing scripts. And righting scripts. The book stresses the need for accuracy-and shows how to shoot for accuracy.
Block points to action verbs and points out dozens of words not to use. And tells why not to use them. "Every writer needs an editor" is a truism, but editors are vanishing. So Block tells how a writer can be her own editor. His own, too.
Block wraps up the guide with challenges for the reader to rewrite several wire stories; then he shows how he rewrote them.
This book is bound to be read, re-read, thumbed through, and consulted when a question arises-and the book will be kept within reach. Whenever students (and others) write a script, they'll thank you. (And you'll silently thank Block.)
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Revised and updated, this tools-based handbook culls Block’s countless do’s and don’ts and distills them into a handy, topical checklist for broadcast journalists working under deadline.
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Testimonials
"Mervin Block is one of the most insightful, thoughtful teachers of writing I have met in my 17 years at Columbia Journalism School. Any new book by him will be an instant hit among journalists, students and anyone who want to be a better writer."
- Sree Sreenivasan, Columbia University
Bio(s)
Mervin Block
Mervin Block is a broadcast writing coach and author. He has written news at three television networks: as a staff writer for the "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" and the "ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds," and as a freelancer at NBC News. He has written news for Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Charles Kuralt, Roger Mudd, Edwin Newman, Charles Osgood, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, Frank Reynolds, Diane Sawyer, Bob Schieffer, Robert Trout and Mike Wallace. Block teaches newswriting workshops at TV and radio newsrooms around the country. In 2004, the Chicago Press Veterans Association chose him as Press Veteran of the Year.
