How long does it take to read The Language of News Media?
Allan Bell
The Language of News Media by Allan Bell takes about 5 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1991. 277 pages, about 76,175 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
Subjects: Broadcast journalism, Newspapers, Sociolinguistics, Mass media
