"Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings, to the ground-breaking war reporting of Ed Murrow and Richard Dimbleby, to the sophisticated commentaries of Alistair Cooke and reporters such as Fergal Keane, International Radio Journ
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alism explores the way radio has covered the most important stories this century and the way in which it continues to document events in Britan, America, Europe and many other countries around the world. International Radio Journalism is both a theoretical textbook and a practical guide for students of radio journalism, reporters, editors and producers. The book details training and professional standards in writing, presentation, technology, editorial ethics and media law in America, Britain, Australia and other English speaking countries and examines the major public sector broadcast networks such as the BBC, CBC, NPR and ABC as well as the work of commercial and small public radio stations. Timothy Crook investigates the way in which news reporting has been influenced by governments and media conglomerates and identifies an undercurrent of racial and sexual discrimination throughout the history of radio news." (Publisher description)
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"With Britain's first two national commercial radio stations - Virgin 1215 and Classic FM - already on the air, the 90s are set to bring unprecedented expansion to the national, regional and local radio station network - and yet more controversy over the role of the BBC. In this new edition of Under
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standing Radio, Andrew Crisell re-addresses the characteristics of this fascinating and paradoxical medium. He explores how radio processes such genres as news, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of the medium has important implications for audience studies. In addition, Andrew Crisell's revised historical account of radio brings the reader right up to date, and includes a brand new chapter on talk-and-music radio - the format adopted by so many of the new stations - in which he explains why the sound medium, even more than television, has played such a crucial role in the development of modern popular culture. This new edition of Understanding Radio will be essential reading both to students of the media, and to those with a practical involvement in programme production." (Publisher description)
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"Al cumplir 31 años de existencia, CIESPAL se propuso, como tarea primordialmente importante, realizar en Quito un seminario internacional con representantes de la radiodifusión y de las principales cadenas informativas de los países del Grupo Andino, para intercambiar experiencias y estudiar la
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estructura y tendencias de los informativos radiofónicos de la subregión, con miras a orientar gestiones hacia un desarrollo beneficioso y constante de la radiofonía informativa en América Latina. La ocasión fue propicia para que también se delibere, entre otros asuntos, acerca de la situación general de la radiodifusion en el continente, los accesos a las fuentes de informacion, el funcionamiento de las cadenas radiofónicas, los formatos informativos y su incidencia, las posibilidades de producción radiofónica multinacional en la subregión y las necesidades de formación profesional de los periodistas que se dedican en los países andinos a tareas informativas a través de la radio. Los análisis, referencias y propuestas que se conocieron en la reunión aparecen en este volumen [...)." (Introducción, página 5-6)
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