Colleen Cotter is a senior lecturer at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a former daily news reporter and editor in the USA. Her previous publications include USA Phrasebook: Understanding Americans and Their Culture, Second Edition (2001).
Introduction
Part I. The Process and Practice of Everyday Journalism: 1. An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language
2. Craft and community: reading the ways of journalists
3. The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit
Part II. Conceptualizing the News: 4. News values and their significance in text and practice
5. The 'story meeting': deciding what's fit to print
6. The interaction-based nature of journalism
Part III. Constructing the Story: Texts and Contexts: 7. Story design and the dictates of the 'lead'
8. 'Boilerplate': simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning
9. Style and standardization in news language
Part IV. Decoding the Discourse: 10. The impact of the news process on media discourse
Conclusion and key points
Appendix 1. Story samples
Appendix 2. Outline guide for the analysis of news media language
Appendix 3. SPJ ethics code
Glossary of news and linguistic terms
References.
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