ENG: Television News and the New Technology Book

For a time, print has caught up with technology. Here are all the elements of ENG (Electronic News Gathering) tech­nology and its uses, strengths, and weak­nesses in the researching, writing, edit­ing, photojournalism, and production of television news, including a chapter de­voted to the implications of ENG for communications law. The text is sup­plemented by essays written by well-established professionals, including Tom Wolzein, NBC News, Larry Hatteberg, two-time NPPA News Cameraman of the Year, Lynn Cullen, WTAE-TV, Pitts­burgh, and John Premack, WCVB-TV, Boston, who consider the ethical, es­thetic, editorial, operational, and organi­zational problems the current tech­nology has brought to television news. The authors make extensive use of the results of a nationwide survey of News Directors, News Producers, and Broad­cast Station Managers in describing the impact of ENG on the jobs broadcast journalists do, the new jobs it has cre­ated, and the kinds of skills and knowl­edge that future broadcast journalists will need. (This book is endorsed by the Radio-Television News Directors Association).Read More