PREFACE
PART I ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
NEWS WRITING ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE EDITORIAL ROOMS
III. THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
IV. THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
PART II THE NEWS STORY
THE NEWS STORY
V. WHAT NEWS IS
VI. NEWS SOURCES
VII. GETTING THE STORY
VIII. ORGANIZATION OF THE STORY
IX. THE LEAD [11]
X. THE BODY OF THE STORY
XI. THE PARAGRAPH
XII. THE SENTENCE [18]
XIII. WORDS
PART III TYPES OF STORIES
TYPES OF STORIES
XIV. INTERVIEWS, SPEECHES, COURTS
XV. ACCIDENT, CRIME
XVI. SPORTS
XVII. SOCIETY
XVIII. FOLLOW-UPS, REWRITES
XIX. FEATURE STORIES
XX. CORRESPONDENCE STORIES
APPENDIX
STYLE-BOOK
I. HANDLING COPY
II. PUNCTUATION
MARKS USED IN CORRECTING COPY
CORRECTIONS
CORRECTED PROOF
PROOF-READERS' MARKS
TERMINOLOGY
EXERCISES
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VIII
INDEX
ADVERTISEMENTS
Government and Economics
HANDBOOK OF COMPOSITION
MECHANICS OF WRITING
EXERCISES IN ENGLISH
WRITTEN ENGLISH