News Writing
by M. Lyle Spencer
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spencer, M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle), 1881-1969
- Title
- News writing : The gathering , handling and writing of news stories
- Credits
- Produced by Audrey Longhurst and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
- Subject
- Reporters and reporting
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30765
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30765
- Release Date
- December 26, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NEWS WRITING THE GATHERING, HANDLING AND WRITING OF NEWS STORIES — Copyright, 1917 , By D. C. Heath & Co. — TO THOMAS B. REID DEAN OF THE WISCONSIN NEWSPAPER MEN
- 2.vii ] PREFACE
- 3.xi ] CONTENTS
- 4.1 ] PART I ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER2 ]
- 5.3 ] NEWS WRITING ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER — I. INTRODUCTION — 5 ] II. THE EDITORIAL ROOMS — III. THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT — 20 ] IV. THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
- 6.23 ] PART II THE NEWS STORY24 ]
- 7.25 ] THE NEWS STORY — V. WHAT NEWS IS — 34 ] VI. NEWS SOURCES — 42 ] VII. GETTING THE STORY — 57 ] VIII. ORGANIZATION OF THE STORY — 68 ] IX. THE LEAD [11] — 84 ] X. THE BODY OF THE STORY — 97 ] XI. THE PARAGRAPH — 99 ] XII. THE SENTENCE [18] — 116 ] XIII. WORDS
- 8.123 ] PART III TYPES OF STORIES124 ]
- 9.125 ] TYPES OF STORIES — XIV. INTERVIEWS, SPEECHES, COURTS — 149 ] XV. ACCIDENT, CRIME — 164 ] XVI. SPORTS — 199 ] XVII. SOCIETY — 212 ] XVIII. FOLLOW-UPS, REWRITES — 224 ] XIX. FEATURE STORIES — 235 ] XX. CORRESPONDENCE STORIES
- 10.247 ] 248 ] APPENDIX
- 11.249 ] STYLE-BOOK — I. HANDLING COPY — 256 ] II. PUNCTUATION — 1. Capital Letters — 2. The Period — 3. The Colon — 260 ] 4. The Semicolon — 5. The Comma — 6. The Dash — 7. Parentheses — 8. Quotation-Marks — 9. The Apostrophe — 10. The Hyphen — 10. Abbreviations — 11. Numbers
- 12.273 ] MARKS USED IN CORRECTING COPY
- 13.275 ] CORRECTIONS
- 14.276 ] CORRECTED PROOF
- 15.277 ] PROOF-READERS' MARKS
- 16.278 ] TERMINOLOGY
- 17.285 ] EXERCISES — CHAPTER V — CHAPTER VIII — WILSON SPEAKS TO DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION — LEO FRANK WORSE TO-DAY — BRYAN LOSES TEMPER — GUEST AT PARTY ROBBER — CHAPTER IX — CHAPTER X — CHAPTER XI — CHAPTER XII — CHAPTER XIII — CHAPTER XIV — CHAPTER XV — CHAPTER XVI — CHAPTER XVII — CHAPTER XVIII — CHAPTER XIX
- 18.353 ] INDEX
- 19.ADVERTISEMENTS — Government and Economics — HANDBOOK OF COMPOSITION — MECHANICS OF WRITING — EXERCISES IN ENGLISH — WRITTEN ENGLISH — Transcriber's Note:
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