Entertainment Journalism: Making it your Career (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781138649385)

Entertainment Journalism is a practical guide to one of the most highly visible areas of media practice. Drawing on 20 years' experience as an entertainment journalist, Ben Falk gives a comprehensive overview of journalistic reporting on the arts industries, with particular focus on film, music, TV and celebrity gossip. This is coupled with an extensive range of tips and tools to help students and young professionals hone the key skills required for a career in entertainment journalism. Interviews with industry professionals appear throughout, from current editors of the biggest entertainment brands, Hollywood bureau chiefs and critics to consumer publicists, multimedia content producers, live radio correspondents, video makers, TV presenters and social media specialists.

Topics include:

• breaking a story
• interviewing techniques
• working at press junkets and red carpet events
• working with PRs
• selling as a freelance
• using social media for reporting and networking
• breaking into the industry.

With up-to-the-minute expert advice, accessibly written guidance on writing and reporting and invaluable perspectives from those within the entertainment world, this is an instructive and insightful book for any aspiring showbiz journalist.

Author: Ben Falk
ISBN-10: 1138649384
ISBN-13: 9781138649385
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 03/14/2018
Pages: 156
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.35d