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The Writing of News / A Handbook with Chapters on Newspaper Correspondence and Copy Reading

Chapter 1: THE WRITING OF NEWS
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This handbook provides concise, practical instruction in gathering, composing, and editing newspaper copy for aspiring reporters and copy readers. It explains newsroom terminology and technical principles of clear, concise, and forceful prose, and emphasizes accuracy, fairness, and impersonal reporting. Detailed chapters examine news values, writing effective leads, structuring and compressing stories, feature and interview techniques, and handling specialty items such as crimes, fires, and wire correspondence. It also covers copy-reading procedures, headline writing, legal considerations like libel, and office style variations, illustrated with many real-world examples and editing marks to train practical newsroom judgment.

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Title: The Writing of News

Author: Charles G. Ross

Release date: June 22, 2019 [eBook #59791]

Language: English

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