Description
This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:
What is news?
How the modern newsroom operates
How facts are gathered and checked
The reporter and picture ideas
District reporting
Techniques of interviewing
News writing and newspaper language
How to summarize
Reporting the courts
Political and industrial reporting
Aspects of sportswriting
Feature writing and arts reviewing
The book also includes an important new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage and it examines a newspaper's internal structure and the reporter's daily work in the light of the latest technology.
This classic textbook is a must for all journalism and media courses and offers the ideal career introduction for the young journalist.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 What is News?; Chapter 2 Gathering the News; Chapter 3 Picture Ideas; Chapter 4 District Reporting; Chapter 5 Interviewing; Chapter 6 News Writing; Chapter 7 Newspaper Language; Chapter 8 Reporting the Courts; Chapter 9 Reporting Local Government; Chapter 10 Politics; Chapter 11 Business and Industry; Chapter 12 Reporting Religions; Chapter 13 Some Thoughts on Sportswriting; Chapter 14 Summarizing; Chapter 15 Feature Writing; Chapter 16 Arts Reviewing; Chapter 17 Newspaper Structure; Chapter 18 Looking things Up; Chapter 19 A Note On Ethics; Chapter 20 Careers In Journalism;
