Editing.: The Essential Guide to Better Writing Across Today's Media

Editing.: The Essential Guide to Better Writing Across Today's Media

Editing is needed now more than ever. So is this book. The authors offer practical advice to save you from making cringe-worthy mistakes. Want to take your writing to new heights? This book is your Sherpa. Hope to become a professional writer or editor? You can learn from pros working in: - Print and broadcast journalism - Film and documentaries - Social media and podcasts - Public relations and advertising - News sites for nonprofit organizations The book's first section opens with the Core Principles of Editing. Enjoy the humor as you learn to be The Good Editor and The Good Writer, then dive into the Language Skills Survival Kit. The second section puts you on deadline with tips for writing headlines, selecting visuals, crafting social media posts, averting legal troubles, and more. The book's five appendices provide vital references and innovative features such as the Fixtionary. The secret sauce for your success is confidence. Chapter by chapter you will build confidence as a writer as you develop a superpower-how to edit your own writing. "What Buck Ryan and Michael O'Donnell have produced is an essential guide to better writing through editing. It's a comprehensive handbook with valuable advice and editing techniques that will serve us all well. Their advice rings true from my own experiences in the broadcasting and internet journalism worlds over the past six decades." From the Foreword by Adam Clayton Powell III "Buck Ryan knows more about editing in journalism than anyone I know. He has earned the title of Maestro, a creative presence who knows how all the parts fit together." Roy Peter Clark, author of Writing Tools and Tell It Like It Is "I wish I had this book to give the great PR people I hired over the years. For applicants it surely would have helped them pass our writing test. As the public relations director for a major corporation and the editor of my college student newspaper, I could have used it myself." Jack Guthrie, founder and CEO of Guthrie/Mayes (now GMPR), one of the largest independent public relations firms in the Southeast "This book is terrific! It's current, creative and comprehensive. It can support curriculum across a school year or serve as a reference book. If you need a spark to get your students to see the importance of journalism, or their various media career options, or if you want them to understand ethical decision making, this book is for you. Most of all, it will help them improve their writing through editing." Tony Lococo, journalism adviser at award-winning Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, retiring after 42 years Buck Ryan created a new title in the world of editing-Maestro. He has conducted Maestro Concept storytelling workshops in a dozen countries, including Brazil, China, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and Vietnam. He served as the eighth director of the University of Kentucky's century-old journalism school and has produced five documentaries for public television. Michael O'Donnell created an award-winning student media outlet at the University of St. Thomas, where he taught editing for 23 years and oversaw high school journalism workshops. He worked with Ryan at the Chicago Tribune, and together they taught editing at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. They have published four books on language skills and editing.