Includes index.

Sound and stories -- Fairness: Fair, accurate, complete, and honest; The echo chamber; Verifying assertions; Getting both sides; Avoiding loaded language -- Writing for broadcast: Write the way you speak; How to sound like a real person; Other newswriting tips -- Reporting: The reporter's personality and skills; Developing news sources; Other sources of original stories; Getting people on tape; Getting great actualities; Working on tight deadlines; Beyond acts and tracks; A storytelling sampler -- Field producing: Getting started; In the field; Finding sound and scenes; Putting the story together; Filing from the field; Taking responsibility -- Story editing: The editor's role; The ingredients of a story; Structuring the story; Editing by year; The intro: The first track; Copyediting; The ending; When to stop editing; Finding new approaches to old stories -- The reporter-host two-way: The problem with scripted two-ways; Going scriptless; Two-way tips -- Reading on the air: Sounding conversational; Marking up a script; Getting physical; The need for feedback -- Hosting: The host's day; The host interview; Reading scripts other people write; Hosting live programming -- Newscasting: What is news? Public Radio newscast values and principles; Composing the 'cast; Newscast writing; The NPR news spot; The reporter Q&A; On the air -- Booking: Booking well-known people; Booking everyday people; The booker as detective; The pre-interview; Final steps -- Producing: Finding and pitching stories; Producing interviews; Editing interviews; Mixing reporter pieces; Producing music pieces -- Production ethics: The unkindest cuts; Other production issues -- Program producing: The art of the news program; Creating the lineup; Producing live programs -- Program editing: Setting the news agenda; Error checking; Massaging the script; Sitting in on interviews; The editor as manager -- Commentaries: Finding commentators; Topical commentaries; Personal commentaries; Editing commentaries; Coaching commentators; Commentary intros; To comment or not to comment -- Studio directing: The director as number cruncher; The director as conductor; Directing live events; The joy of directing -- Beyond radio: The web-radio relationship; The manifold media of the web; Podcasting; Editorial issues online; The future -- Pronouncers.