Series:

Media Skills

3 total works

Cover of Designing for Newspapers and Magazines

A hugely beneficial introduction to students and professionals in print media and design, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines offers guidance on how to produce attractive publications and how to tailor them to their target audience using colour, text placement, typography and images.

Written by an experienced journalist and designer, the book details the elements of good design and provides instruction on how to get the most of computers and computer-aided design.

The book examines a broad range of local and national publications including The Sun, The Daily Mirror and Glamour magazine and explains the reasoning that underpins their design choice, including:

  • how to set up a new publication

  • planning an edition of a newspaper or magazine

  • typography and working with text

  • working with images and technical production

  • designing pages and how to use colour

  • design and journalism ethics

  • a glossary of journalistic and design terms

Cover of English for Journalists 3 & Reporting for Journalists Bundle
This is a bundle comprising the paperback editions of English for Journalists, Third edition, and Reporting for Journalists.

Cover of English for Journalists

English for Journalists

by Wynford Hicks

Published 12 February 1998
English for Journalists is an invaluable guide not only to the basics of English, but to those aspects of writing, such as reporting speech, house style and jargon, which are specific to the language of journalism. Written in an accessible style, beginning with the fundamentals of grammar and the use of spelling, punctuation and journalistic writing and each point is illustrated with concise examples.
This revised and updated edition includes:
* a discussion of the recent debates surrounding the use of standard and idiomatic English
* the correct use and spelling of foreign words
* a chapter on broadcast journalism
* an updated glossary of journalistic terms