Australian Broadcast Journalism is a practical guide to broadcast journalism. The text introduces students to broadcast journalism by exposing them to the thoughts and experiences of practising journalists across all the broadcast media—radio, television, and the Web. It focuses on the skills journalists need to succeed and looks at how these skills are applied in the different broadcast media.

Supplements and Resources:

• Companion CD included with every book with examples of techniques, stories, and styles from both students and practising journalists.

1. Preface
   Abbreviations

   Part 1: Radio, television and online Australia

2. Radio in Australia
3. Television in Australia
4. Online Australia
   
   Part 2: Radio craft skills
5. Using the voice
6. Writing for radio
7. Interviewing
8. Working with sound
   
   Part 3: Radio production formats
9. Radio stories
10. Radio ads and promos
11. Live radio
    
    Part 4: Radio and television news
12. Broadcast news
13. The radio news reporter
14. The television news reporter
15. News bulletins
    
    Part 5: Producing online content
16. Online news
17. The online reporter
18. Online content production
    
    Part 6: A broadcast journalist's guide to law and ethics
19. Broadcast journalists and the law
20. Broadcast journalists and ethics
    
    Appendix 1 Regulations and codes of practice
    Glossary
    Index

Gail Phillips – Associate Professor, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University

Mia Lindgren – Lecturer, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University