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12:00 AM  Jan. 27, 2009
Broadcast Journalism Bibliography
By David Shedden (More articles by this author)
Library Director, Poynter Institute

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ONLINE RESOURCES

Al's Morning Meeting (Poynter Online)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=2
Story ideas and links for journalists.

Archive of American Television
http://tvinterviewsarchive.blogspot.com/
search/label/Genre%3A%20News

B Roll Online
http://www.b-roll.net/
B Roll Online is devoted to TV news photography.

BEA: The Broadcast Education Association

http://www.beaweb.org/
BEA is a professional development organization for academics and professionals involved in electronic media.

Current Online
http://www.current.org/
This web service reports on public TV and public radio.

Encyclopedia of Television 
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/
Museum of Broadcast Communications, 1997.

Ethics Guide for Public Radio Journalism (CPB)
http://www.cpb.org/stations/radioethicsguide/

European Broadcasting Union
http://www.ebu.ch/en/

FCC: Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/
This website includes news and announcements from the FCC.

Historical Periods in Television Technology (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/tv/

Industry Leaders: 50 Years of Murrow (RTNDA)
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/media_items/50-years-of-murrow990.php?id=990

Investigative Reporters and Editors
http://www.ire.org/

Library of American Broadcasting
http://www.lib.umd.edu/UMCP/LAB/
The library is located on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park.

Lost Remote
http://www.lostremote.com/
Broadcast journalism Weblog founded by Cory Bergman.

Media Job Pod
http://www.mediajobpod.org/
"For university students anywhere about to hit the job-hunt trail for broadcast/online news and production jobs. Kent State University.

Mervin Block
http://www.mervinblock.com

Museum of Broadcast Communications
http://www.museum.tv/
"The MBC examines popular culture and contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television and radio."

NAB (National Association of Broadcasters)
http://www.nab.org

National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications
http://www.namic.com/
NAMIC welcomes existing and aspiring cable professionals.

NPPA (National Press Photographers Association)
http://www.nppa.org/
NPPA is dedicated to the advancement of photographic journalism.

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2003
Poynter Online, March 2003
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=22553

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2004
Poynter Online, March 2004
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=62291

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2005
Poynter Online, March 2005
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=79970

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2006
Poynter Online, March 2006
http://www.poynterextra.org/NPPA2006/

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2007
Poynter Online, March 2007
http://www.nasites.net/projects/1296/

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2008
Poynter Online, March 2008

NPPA: The Best of Television Photojournalism 2009
Poynter Online, Feb. 2009

NPPA Code of Ethics
http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/
business_practices/ethics.html

National Public Broadcasting Archives
http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/

News University (Poynter/Knight Foundation)
http://www.newsu.org/

News Videographer
http://newsvideographer.com/
For journalists who produce online news video.

NewsLab
http://www.NewsLab.org
NewsLab is a non-profit resource center for television and radio newsrooms, focused on training and research.

Paley Center for Media
http://www.paleycenter.org/
Formerly the Museum of Television and Radio

Poynter Online's Broadcast Resources
http://www.poynteronline.org/subject.asp?id=8

Poynter Online's
"Early TV Anchors: A History of Network Evening News
"
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=99440

Poynter Online's "Leading Lines" column
http://poynteronline.org/column.asp?id=34
Coaching and management advice from Poynter's leadership faculty.

Poynter Online's TV / Radio Tip Sheets
http://poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=31904

PRNDI (Public Radio News Directors Incorporated)
http://www.prndi.org/
PRNDI encourages the professional development and training of public radio journalists.

Radio Pioneers & Core Technologies (FCC)
http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/radio/

RTNDA (Radio-Television News Directors Association)
http://www.rtnda.org/
RTNDA represents local and network news executives in broadcast, cable and other electronic media.

RTNDA -- Edward R. Murrow Awards
http://www.rtnda.org/pages/awards.php?g=67

Shoptalk
http://www.tvspy.com/shoptalk.cfm
Shoptalk is a daily newsletter about the television industry.

Television History - The First 75 Years
http://www.tvhistory.tv

TV Rundown
http://www.tvrundown.com/
The TV Rundown reports on local television news and programming.

TelevisionWeek
http://www.tvweek.com/

TVNewser
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

Tyndall Report
http://www.tyndallreport.com/

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
The Television News Archive collection is at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

 
BOOKS
 
Alan, Jeff and James Martin Lane.
Anchoring America: The Changing Face of Network News.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2003.

Albarran, Alan B. and Gregory G. Pitts.
The Radio Broadcasting Industry.

Boston: MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2001.
 
Allen, Craig M. News is People: The Rise of Local TV News
and the Fall of News from New York
.
Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

Arya, Bob. Thirty Seconds to Air.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1999.

Attkisson, Sharyl and Don Rodney Vaughan.
Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News.
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2003.


Barnouw, Erik. A Tower in Babel:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States to 1933
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1966.

----. The Golden Web:
The History of Broadcasting in the United States 1933-1953
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

----. The Image Empire:
the History of Broadcasting in the United States from 1953
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.

Beadle, Mary and Michael D. Murry. Indelible Images:
Women of Local Television
.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2001.

Beaman, Jim. Interviewing for Radio.
New York: Routledge, 2000.

Bliss, Edward and James L. Hoyt.
Writing News for Broadcast.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Block, Mervin. Broadcast Newswriting:
The RTNDA Reference Guide
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1994.

----. Writing Broadcast News.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1997.

Block, Mervin and Joe Durso, Jr.
Writing News for TV and Radio
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.

Boyd, Andrew. Broadcast Journalism:
Techniques of Radio and TV News
. 5th ed.
Woburn, MA: Focal Press, 2001.

Brinkley, Joel. Defining Vision:
The Battle for the Future of Television
.
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997.

Brown, James and Quaal Ward.
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.
New York: McGraw Hill, 1998.

Butler, Jeremy G. Television: Critical Methods and Applications.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.

Carr, Forrest, Suzanne Huffman, and C.A. Tuggle.
Broadcast News Handbook
.
Boston: MA: McGraw Hill, 2001.

Carroll, Victoria. Writing News for Television.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.

Chantler, Paul and Peter Stewart. Local Radio Journalism.
Boston: Focal Press, 2003.

Cloud, Stanley and Lynne Olson. The Murrow Boys:
Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism
.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Cohler, David Keith. Broadcast Newswriting.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990.

Cremer, Charles, et al. ENG: Television News.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995.

Cronkite, Walter. A Reporter's Life.
New York: Knopf, 1996.

Cronley, Connie. Sometimes a Wheel Falls Off:
Essays from Public Radio
.
New York: Hawk Publishing, 2000.

Crouse, Chuck. Reporting for Radio.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1998.

Darnton, Kate, Kayce Freed Jennings and Lynn Sherr.
Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life.
New York: Public Affairs, 2007.

Day, James. The Vanishing Vision:
The Inside Story of Public Television
.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

Donald, Ralph and Thomas Spann.
Fundamentals of Television Production
.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 2000.

Dotson, Bob and Matt Lauer. Make It Memorable:
Writing and Packaging TV News With Style
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2000.

Douglas, George H. The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1987.

Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1987.

Duncan, Jacci, ed. Making Waves:
the 50 Greatest Women in Radio and Television
as Selected by American Women in Radio and Television
.
Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel, 2001.

Edgerton, Gary. Columbia History of American Television.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.

Edwards, Bob. Edward R. Murrow
and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism
.
Hoboken, NJ: Willey, 2004.

Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America:
A Political History
.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1996.

Fensch, Thomas. Television News Anchors.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993.

Fleming, Carol. The Radio Handbook.
New York: Routledge, 2002.

Foote, Joe S., ed. Live From the Trenches:
The Changing Role of the Television News Correspondent
.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998.

Frank, Reuven. Out of Thin Air:
The Brief Wonderful Life of Network News
.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Freedman, Wayne. It Takes More Than Good Looks
To Succeed at TV News Reporting
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.

Fry, Katherine. Constructing the Heartland:
Television News and Natural Disaster
.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2003.

Geller, Valerie. Creating Powerful Radio.
Boston: Focal, 2007.

Geisler, Jill. News Leadership at the Head of the Class. 2nd edition.
Washington, DC: Radio and Television News Directors Foundation, 2006.

Gilbert, Allison, ed. Covering Catastrophe:
Broadcast Journalists Report September 11
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.

Goldberg, Robert. Anchors:
Brokaw, Jennings, Rather and the Evening News
.
Secauscus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1990.

Goldenson, Leonard H. Beating the Odds:
The Untold Story Behind the Rise of ABC
.
New York: Scribners, Maxwell Macmillan, 1991.

Gunther, Marc. The House that Roone Built:
the Inside Story of ABC News
.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1994.

Halper, Donna L. Invisible Stars:
A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting
.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2001.

Head, Sydney W. and Christopher H. Sterling.
Broadcasting in America
.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

Hewitt, John. Airwords:
Writing for Broadcast News
. 3rd edition.
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Company, 2002.

Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story:
Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television
.
New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

Hilliard, Robert L. and Michael C. Keith.
The Broadcast Century and Beyond.
Boston: Focal Press, 2001.

Hilmes, Michele. Only Connect:
A Cultural History Of Broadcasting in the United States
.
Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002.

Hosley, David H. and Gayle K. Yamada. Hard News:
Women in Broadcast Journalism
.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

Howard, Herbert H., Michael S. Kievman and Barbara A. Moore.
Radio, TV, and Cable Programming. 2nd ed.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1994.

Jankowski, Gene F. Television Today and Tomorrow:
It Won't Be What You Think
.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Johnston, Lyle. Good Night Chet: A Biography of Chet Huntley.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2003.
 
Kalbfeld, Brad. The Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Keith, Michael C. Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America.
Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1995.
 
Keller, Teresa and Stephen A. Hawkins. Television News:
A Handbook for Writing, Reporting, Shooting, and Editing
.
Scottsdale, AZ: Holcomb Hathaway, 2005.
 
Kerbel, Natthew. If it Bleeds, It Leads:
An Anatomy of Television News
.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000.

Kern, Jonathan. Sound Reporting:
The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
 
Kisseloff, Jeff. The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961.
New York: Viking, 1995.

Kurtz, Howard. Reality Show:
Inside the Last Great Television News War.
New York: Free Press, 2007.
 
Lindekugel, D. M. Shooters:
TV News Photographers and Their Work.
New York: Praeger, 1994.

Lindner, Ken. Broadcasting Realities.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1999.

Looker, Tom. The Sound and the Story: NPR and the Art of Radio.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Marlane, Judith. Women in Television News Revisited.
Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press, 1999.

Matthews, Garret, ed. Past Deadlines, Past Lives:
News, Views, and Second Thoughts
.
Tampa, FL: Albion Press, 2001.

Matusow, Barbara. The Evening Stars:
The Making of the Network News Anchor
.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Murray, Michael D. Encyclopedia of Television News.
Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1999.

Murray, Michael D. and Donald G. Godfrey, eds.
Television in America: Local Station History from Across the Nation
.
Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1997.

O'Dell, Cary. Women Pioneers in Television:
Biographies of Fifteen Industry Leaders
.
Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, 1997.

Papper, Robert A. Broadcast News Writing Stylebook.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2002.

Pease, Edward C. and Everette E. Dennis, eds.
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.
New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Persico, Joseph E. Edward R. Murrow: An American Original.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Postman, Neil and Steve Powers. How to Watch TV News.
New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

Potter, Deborah and Debora Halpern Wenger.
Advancing the Story: Broadcast Journalism in a Multimedia World.
Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2008.
(See also: Advancing the Story: The Blog)

Rosenstiel, Tom, et al. We Interupt This Newscast:
How to Improve Local News and Win Ratings.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Rowe, Jeff. Broadcast News Writing for Professionals.
Oak Park, IL: Marion Street Press, 2005.

Schorr, Daniel. Staying Tuned: A Life in Journalism.
New York: Pocket Books, 2001.
 
Schieffer, Bob. Face the Nation: My Favorite Stories from 
the First 50 Years of the Award-Winning News Broadcast

New York: Simon & Schuster,  2004.
 
----. This Just In
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,  2003.
 
Seib, Philip. Broadcasts from the Blitz:
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.
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Sherr, Lynn. Outside the Box: A Memoir.
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Shook, Frederick. Television Newswriting:
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.
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Siegel, Robert, ed. The NPR Interviews, 1995.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
 
----. The NPR Interviews, 1996.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

Silcock, B. William, Don Heider and Mary T. Rogus.
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Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

Smith, Anthony. Television: An International History.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Smith, Dow. Power Producer. 3rd edition.
Washington, DC: RTNDA, 2002.

Sperber, A.M. Murrow: His Life and Times.
New York: Freundlich Books, 1986.

Sterling, Christopher H. and John Michael Kittross.
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Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
 
Thompson, Robert and Cindy Malone. The Broadcast Journalism Handbook.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004.
 
Tompkins, Al. Write for the Ear...Shoot for the Eye...
Aim for the Heart
.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 2002.

Underwood, Rich. Roll!: Shooting TV News.
Boston: Focal Press, 2007.
 
Utterback, Ann S. Broadcaster's Survival Guide.
Chicago: Bonus Books, 1997.
 
Walker, James R. and Douglas A. Ferguson.
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.
Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1998.

Wertheimer, Linda. Listening to America.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.

White, Ted. Broadcast News Writing,
Reporting, and Producing
. 3rd edition.
Boston: Focal Press, 2001.

Winn, J. Emmett and Susan L. Brinson, eds. Transmitting the Past:
Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Broadcasting
.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.
 
Yorke, Ivor. Television News. 4th edition.
Boston: Focal Press, 2000.

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