The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence

The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence remains the most comprehensive text on editing across the entire journalism sphere. This new edition is even more expensive and shifts the coverage further to address more of the converged media world. Sections on broadcast, online, and multimedia editing have also been bulked up, with the boundaries and overlaps between those different formats laid out clearly. Authors Brian Brooks and James Pinson present the format, legalities, and structures of journalistic writing in a comprehensible and approachable format. The Art of Editing in the Age of Convergence covers topics from writing headlines to fact-checking to helping students create readable and contemporary media writing. It includes real-world examples that highlight writing formats and concepts as practiced by professionals today. Readers of this text will come away with the know-how to edit both their own work and the work other others in a multimedia world.

James L. Pinson has worked for newspapers in Missouri, Colorado and Michigan and holds a doctorate in journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism, where he also taught for six years. He additionally taught 25 years in the journalism program at Eastern Michigan University and for 13 summers in the Dow Jones News Fund's internship program. In addition to this book, he and Brian S. Brooks are also co-authors of "Working With Words: A Handbook for Media Writers and Editors" along with Jean Gaddy Wilson (Bedford/St. Martin's).

Brian S. Brooks has served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Missourian and as European editor of Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military newspaper in Europe and the Middle East. He served as a faculty member and administrator at the Missouri School of Journalism for 38 years, the last 10 of those as associate dean for undergraduate studies. He continues to work part-time at the school. Brooks has served as deputy director or director of the Dow Jones News Fund internship program at Missouri for more than 40 years. He is the co-author of four journalism textbooks and is a member of the Missouri Press Association Newspaper Hall of Fame.