Types of News Writing

This practical manual compiles exemplary news stories and brief commentary to teach reporting, selection, sourcing, and presentation. It groups real newspaper examples by topic—fires and accidents, police and courts, meetings and investigations, speeches, entertainment, illness and death, politics, labor, weather, sports, society, and miscellaneous—and includes guidance on analysis, lead writing, concise informative style, human-interest and feature techniques, ethical cautions about inventing details, and constructive journalism. Each chapter offers succinct points for study, suggestions on evaluating and obtaining material, and attention to structure and typographical presentation; examples are credited to their sources and arranged for classroom and newsroom use.