Writing for Broadcast Journalists guides readers through the significant differences between the written and the spoken versions of journalistic English. It will help broadcast journalists at every stage of their careers to avoid such pitfalls as the use of newspaper-English, common linguistic errors, and Americanised phrases, and gives practical advice on accurate terminology and pronunciation, while encouraging writers to capture the immediacy of the spoken word in their scripts.

Writing for Broadcast Journalists includes:

practical tips on how to avoid ‘journalese’, clichés and jargon
guidance on tailoring your writing style to suit a particular audience
advice on converting agency copy into spoken English
writing to television pictures
examples of scripts from some of the best in the business
an appendix of ‘dangerous’ words and phrases to be avoided in scripts.