Chapter 1 An Outline of Journalism 1.1 What Is Journalism? 1.2 Media Categories 1.3 The Trend of Media Convergence QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONChapter 2 Categories of English News Stories 2.1 What’S“Hard”and What’s“Soft”? 2.2 News Brief 2.3 Straight News 2.4 In-depth Report 2.5 Editorials 2.6 Features EXERCISESChapter 3 Reading C0mDrehenSlon 0f News Stories 3.1 Grammatical Features of Headlines 3.2 Grammatical Features of Text Body 3.3 Other Stylistic Characteristics of News Stories 3.4 Some Practical Skills of Reading Newspaper Articles EXERCISESChapter 4 Listening Compreheion 0f English News Items一 4.1 What Makes English News Listening Compreheion Difficult? 4.2 How to Catch Information while Listening t0 English NewsItems? 4.3 Other Measures of Improving Your Listening Compreheion 4.4 Useful Materials and Resources EXERCISESChapter 5 The Writing 0f Headlines 5.1 The Purposes of News Headlines 5.2 Characteristics of News Headlines 5.3 Principles of Headline Writing 5.4 Guidelines of Headline Writing 5.5 Procedures of Headline Writing 5.6 Headlines on the Web EXERCISESChapter 6 The Writing 0f News Lead 6.1 Lead and Its Classificiation 6.2 HOW to Write a Lead 6.3 Activities and AssignmentsChapter 7 The Inve~ed Pyramid Form and the Structure of NewsStories 7.1 What Is all Inverted Pyramid Form? 7.2 Why Do We Need all Inverted Pyramid Form? 7.3 The Information Structure in an Inverted Pyramid Form 7.4 The Inverted Pyramid Form and the Writing of News Stories 7.5 Some Other Basic Structures of News Stories EXERCISESChapter 8 How to Write a Feature 8.1 Characteristics of Feature Writing 8.2 Sources of Features 8.3 How to Write and Organize Feature Stories EXERCISESChapter 9 How to Make a Story Accurate,Brief andAttractive 9.1 How to Make a Story Accurate 9.2 How to Make a Story Brief 9.3 How to Make a Story Attractive EXERCISESChapter 10 The Use of Background Information 1 0.1 What Is Background Information? 1 0.2 Background Information in News Writing 1 0.3 Background Information Attached to News Reports EXERCISESChapter 1 1 Bias and Preference in News Repo 1 1.1 What Is Media Bias and Preference? 1 1.2 What Causes Bias and Preference in News Report? 1 1.3 Efforts to Correct Bias and Preference 1 1.4 For Audiences:How to Recognize Bias and Preference in a NewsStory EXERCISESChapter 12 An Outline of the Journalism in English—speakingCountries 1 2.1 Role of Journalism 1 2.2 Journalism and the Government 12.3 Mass Media and Society 12.4 Journalistic Practice and Protection of Citize’Rights 12.5 Newspape in Some English—speaking Countries QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONChapter 13 World-famous News Agencies and Media 13.1 World—famous News Agencies 1 3.2 Newspape and Magazines of World-wide Influence 13.3 English Radios of World-wide Influence 1 3.4 English TVs of World-wide Influence QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION Appendix I Commonly—used Words and Expressio in JournalisticEnglish AppendixⅡMajor English Newspape and Magazines in the World Appendix 111 Commonly-seen Colum in English Media Bibliography