Journalists Write On Their Trade
p. 94 · Read in the full issue
IT’S taken a long time for them to get round to it, but Australian journalists have finally produced a guide book to their trade.
Called “The Journalist’s Craft”, it is published by Angus and Robertson Ltd., with material supplied by more than two dozen members of the Australian Journalists Association —all experts in their particular fields.
The sections deal with such matters as sub-editing, reporting, feature writing, radio and television news, public relations, and the technical matters of production. Although the editors of the book have a highly competent team of specialists at their command, the few weaknesses which show up are due mainly to the fact that a journalist who is undoubtedly top notch at, say, interviewing or reporting sport or police rounds, is not necessarily so highly skilled at passing on his methods in a book.
No doubt some of these matters will be rectified in subsequent editions, but meanwhile every journalist or would-be journalist in Australia, New Zealand or the Islands will find it a valuable work. (THE JOURNALIST’S CRAFT. Angus and Robertson. 55/-).