Selections from American and British Newspaper Journalism

Author: Wang Junjie
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: In the traditional English teaching for journalism majors, we have found that students studying excellent news works from foreign newspapers and magazines can not only broaden their knowledge but also master the characteristics of American and British press English, as well as understand the writing styles of foreign journalists. This is a specialized English reading material for undergraduate journalism majors, divided into two parts: the first part is an introduction to major American and British newspapers and magazines, and the second part is a selected reading of news works from American and British publications. The former helps students understand the history, characteristics, political stances, and viewpoints of some key British and American newspapers. The latter is categorized by news topics, divided into ten units including political news, economic news, cultural news, entertainment news, sports news, science and technology news, disaster news, violence and crime news, obituary news, and environmental news, containing 22 representative works. The author provides detailed annotations for the "difficult points" in each work. To facilitate students' understanding of the news works, each piece is accompanied by "background and analysis."