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Most chapters conclude with a Summary, Additional Reading and Exercises | |
List of Exercises | |
Preface | |
List of Newspapers and Wire Services | |
Introduction | |
Writing | |
The News | |
News Judgment | |
Impact | |
Weight | |
Controversy | |
Emotion | |
The Unusual | |
Prominence | |
Proximity | |
Timeliness | |
Currency | |
Usefulness | |
Educational Value | |
Fairness | |
Rooting | |
Ignoring | |
Agreeing | |
Concluding | |
Stereotyping | |
Excluding | |
The Language of News | |
Precision | |
Clarity | |
Conciseness | |
Directness | |
Leads | |
Traditional Leads | |
Length | |
Choosing the Lead | |
The Five Ws | |
Details | |
Context | |
The Lead's Lead | |
Points | |
Label Leads | |
The Angle | |
Other Leads | |
Zingers | |
Anecdotes | |
Scene Setters | |
Quotations | |
The Angle | |
Appropriateness | |
Dilly-Dallying | |
Control | |
Stories | |
Attribution | |
When to Attribute | |
Guidelines | |
Quotations | |
Direct Quotes | |
Partial Quotes | |
Paraphrasing | |
Form | |
Length | |
Choruses | |
Dishonest Quotes | |
Editing Quotes | |
Responsibility for Quotes | |
Information Selection | |
Selectivity | |
Thoroughness | |
Organization | |
Paragraphs | |
The Inverted Pyramid | |
Supporting the Lead | |
Elaborating | |
Secondary Themes | |
Like Ideas Together | |
Two or More Primary Themes | |
Chronology | |
Transitions | |
Bullets | |
After Soft Leads | |
Background and Context | |
The Past | |
Comparison | |
Patterns | |
The Future | |
Reporting in a Multimedia Age | |
Writing for the Internet | |
Using Graphics to Tell the Story | |
Highlight Boxes | |
Charts and Infographics | |
Maps | |
Reporting | |
Techniques | |
Facts | |
Checking | |
Proof | |
Interpretation | |
Story Origination | |
Press Releases | |
Tips | |
Records | |
Localizing | |
Regionalizing | |
Follow-Up | |
Unannounced Stories | |
Research | |
Figure Out a Search Strategy | |
Find the Best Tools | |
Computer-Assisted Reporting | |
Records | |
Reporters' Files | |
Sources | |
Who | |
Cultivating | |
Avoiding Being Cultivated | |
Ground Rules | |
Interviewing | |
The Preinterview | |
Interview Strategies | |
Questions | |
Note Taking | |
Staying in Control | |
Listening | |
The End | |
The Postinterview | |
Coverage | |
Obituaries | |
Form | |
Getting the Information | |
Enterprise | |
Meetings, Speeches and Press Conferences | |
Meetings | |
Speeches and Press Conferences | |
Government and Politics | |
Sources | |
Records and Documents | |
Budgets | |
Bids | |
Campaigns | |
Polls | |
Police | |
Beat Checks | |
Sources | |
Crime | |
Fires, Accidents and Disasters | |
Enterprise | |
Courts | |
Records | |
Sources | |
Criminal Court | |
Civil Court | |
Enterprise | |
Features | |
Preparation | |
Observation | |
Building the Story | |
Tone | |
Types | |
Specialized Coverage | |
Municipal Services | |
Sources | |
Records | |
Basic Stories | |
Enterprise | |
Story Approaches | |
Education | |
Sources | |
Documents | |
Basic Stories | |
Enterprise | |
Business and Labor | |
Business Sources | |
Labor Sources | |
Documents | |
Basic Stories | |
Enterprise | |
Science, Medicine and the Environment | |
Preparation | |
Complexity and Uncertainty | |
Whom Do You Trust?Sources | |
Journals | |
References | |
Basic Stories | |
Enterprise | |
Broadcast Journalism | |
Broadcast Writing | |
Radio Reporting | |
Television Reporting | |
The Basics | |
Format | |
Fundamentals | |
Editing the Old-Fashioned Way | |
Exercises | |
Style | |
Abbreviations | |
Capitalization | |
Names and Courtesy Titles | |
Numbers | |
Punctuation | |
Spelling | |
Sexism | |
Spelling and Grammar | |
Who, Which and That | |
Verb Tense | |
Agreement | |
Misplaced Modifiers | |
Parallel Construction | |
Analogies, Metaphors and Cliches | |
Analogies | |
Mixed Metaphors | |
Cliches | |
Ethics | |
Freebies | |
Checkbook Journalism | |
Conflict of Interest | |
Misrepresentation | |
Private Lives | |
Law | |
Libel | |
Privacy | |
Protecting Sources | |
Access | |
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