The Real-life strategies, insights, and issues for broadcast journalists, aspiring journalist, production executives, and broadcasters in the New Age of broadcasting, cable, and the internet Lindner, Ken. creator text bibliography txu Austin, TX Live Oak Book Co. c2012 2012 2nd ed. monographic eng

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x, 403 p. ; 23 cm. Contents: Your introductory information: Your glossary -- Introduction -- About the author -- The aims of news and broadcasting during four key stages of broadcasting history: News -- The news continuum -- The new age realities, insights, and strategies on which to base your career decisions: The enhancing niche -- Lead with your strength -- Transcendence -- Some key new age news employers: What they are looking for and what makes them special /different -- Making the sum of newscasts and programs even more compelling than their parts: A call to all new age anchors and hosts -- Tone, pitch, connection, and understanding: Performance and communication intelligence -- Why take a particular job? -- Understanding what different positions do and do not offer primary versus secondary reasons -- Discerning and pursuing what you really want -- Just because management thinks you should assume a particular position does not mean that it is the right or the best move for you and your career -- The skills of being a respectful listener and a confident and relaxed interviewer -- The tremendous advantage of proximity -- Know or correctly intuit what your employer's expectations and needs are -- Do not leave your job until you have secured an enhancing position to go to -- Effectively managing your emotions in the new age by seeing the big picture and by being consequence cognizant -- At the beginning-less is often more -- You want the leverage in contract negotiations -- Getting it right-from the start -- Career jump-starts -- The three"D's" of constructive decision-making: Desire, discipline, and delayed gratification -- Constructive decision-making -- Stay constructive and make the very most of the cards you are dealt -- Career choreography: The soft choreography and the soft-concurrent choreography -- The nancy o'dell soft-concurrent choreography -- The hard choreography -- The matt lauer hard choreography -- The Samantha harris multi-platform choreography -- The mario lopez choreography -- Other multi-platforming choreography models and ideas -- New age broadcasting issues to contemplate: Change -- Murders, dead babies, and fires -- The broadcast journalist's conflict -- Subjectivity -- Learning to live with hitting singles and sacrifice bunts -- Plateauing -- Lack of feedback -- The risks of accepting positions at low-rated stations and shows -- The pay disparity in broadcast journalism -- The right of assignability versus controlling your own destiny -- Striking the right balance between being forward-thinking and being in-the-moment -- The business of broadcasting -- The issues of protecting and preserving the talents image and brand -- The compromise in broadcast journalism and the value of emotional intelligence -- The new age pressures and their potential effects on truthful, accurate, well-researched, and humane reporting -- The value of diversity and its impact in the new age -- The challenge for new age broadcasters to use the internet and social media as both effective ''swords'' and anticipatory ''shields'' -- Opportunities for talent and production-executive program ownership in the new age -- The content and psychology of television employment contracts: The psychology of contracts -- A discussion of various important employment contract clauses -- The new age media and the multimedia journalist: The new media and the new age requirements to be a multimedia and a multi-skilled journalist -- The psychology of securing effective representation: Representation -- The concept of bulletproofing a client's choices and contracts -- Continuing creativity and education -- The psychology of breaking into broadcasting and developing your career: The various routes to take -- Building a foundation, step by step -- Attaining ''understanding'' and ''ownership'' of your work -- The spirit versus the marathon -- Church time -- The evolution imperative! and a closing gift to the reader: The evolution imperative! -- Don't lose sight of ''the gift"" -- A closing gift to the reader -- The ten new age career choreography commandments. Ken Lindner. First edition published as: Broadcasting realities : real-life issues and insights for broadcast journalists, aspiring journalists and broadcasters. Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-396) and index. Broadcast journalism Vocational guidance Broadcast journalism Technological innovations Broadcast journalism Moral and ethical aspects Television broadcasting of news PN4797.L56 9781936909230 (pbk.) 2011939278 DON 110919 20210414114455.0 16968200 eng