Power Performance

Power Performance offers expert advice from a seasoned reporter on how to succeed as a journalist in the digital age. With profiles of successful practitioners in both the press and PR worlds, it offers examples of proven communication strategies. With television news anchors becoming daily celebrity guests in our homes and traditional news media turning increasingly to multimedia enhancements, there is a growing need for journalists and public relations practitioners to develop essential presentation skills. This is the first book available for professionals and students interested primarily in transmitting news and information on-camera in multi-media formats, rather than working behind the scenes. Writing, reporting, and producing skills are examined specifically in terms of their application to effective communication with the viewing audience of both traditional and new media. A guide to storytelling skills for journalism and public relations in multiple media platforms, including print, broadcast, and the web, this book offers invaluable behind-the-scenes insights and profiles of leading multimedia journalists and public relations practitioners. Practical advice is offered on how to put presentation skills to work and the key ethical issues are addressed. This book will appeal to working professionals seeking to enhance their skills, students, citizen journalists and anyone interested in breaking in to on-camera journalism and public relations. This book is a unique and definitive guide to the skills necessary for on-camera journalism and offers an invaluable behind-the-scenes look at the profession. Tailors the traditional skills of writing, reporting, and producing to the needs of journalists working in front of the camera Includes chapters devoted to the role of the storyteller, reporting the story across multiple platforms, and presenting the story on-camera Incorporates profiles of leading multimedia journalists and public relations practitioners Addresses the key ethical issues for the profession Offers practical advice for putting presentation skills to work Storytelling skills covered can be applied to a variety of traditional and new media formats including television news, radio, and podcasts