The Writing of News

About this eBook

Author

Ross, Charles G. (Charles Griffith), 1885-1950

Title

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

Credits

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Journalism

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59791

Release Date

June 22, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE WRITING OF NEWS — PREFACE — CONTENTS
2. 2.CHAPTER I NEWSPAPER COPY — TERMINOLOGY — DIRECTIONS FOR PREPARING COPY
3. 3.CHAPTER II THE ENGLISH OF THE NEWSPAPERS — CLEARNESS — CONCISENESS — FORCE — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
4. 4.CHAPTER III THE WRITER’S VIEWPOINT — FAIRNESS — IMPERSONALITY — GOOD TASTE — ORIGINALITY — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
5. 5.CHAPTER IV THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURACY — OBSERVATION — NAMES — STREET ADDRESSES — SPELLING — SUMMARY — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
6. 6.CHAPTER V NEWS VALUES — THE REPORTER — WHAT IS NEWS? — THE NEWSPAPER’S PROBLEM — KINDS OF STORIES — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
7. 7.CHAPTER VI WRITING THE LEAD — WHAT THE LEAD IS — WHAT THE LEAD SHOULD CONTAIN — OBSERVANCE OF STYLE — LEADS TO BE AVOIDED — SENTENCE STRUCTURE — LEADS THAT BEGIN WITH NAMES — THE GENERAL RULE — STUDY OF 100 TYPICAL STORIES — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
8. 8.CHAPTER VII THE STORY PROPER — COMPRESSION AND EXPANSION — THE MECHANICS OF THE STORY — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
9. 9.CHAPTER VIII THE FEATURE STORY — WHAT THE FEATURE STORY IS NOT — STORIES FOR ENTERTAINMENT — THE HUMAN-INTEREST STORY — THE EDITOR’S PROBLEM — SUNDAY MAGAZINE STORIES — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
10. 10.CHAPTER IX THE INTERVIEW — WHEN THE INTERVIEW IS INCIDENTAL — WHEN THE INTERVIEW IS THE STORY — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
11. 11.CHAPTER X SPECIAL TYPES OF STORIES — FIRE STORIES — DEATH STORIES — WEDDING STORIES — CRIME STORIES — BUSINESS STORIES — SECOND-DAY STORIES — REWRITING — SUGGESTIONS FOR HOME OR CLASS-ROOM STUDY
12. 12.CHAPTER XI THE CORRESPONDENT — WRITING FOR THE WIRE — SOME PITFALLS TO BE AVOIDED — WHAT NOT TO SEND — WHAT TO SEND — SPORTING NEWS — HOW TO SEND — HANDLING THE BIG STORY — SENDING BY MAIL — GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS — PAYMENT
13. 13.CHAPTER XII COPY READING — QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE WORK — ORGANIZATION OF COPY READERS — EDITING THE STORY — RULES ABOUT LIBEL — THE GUIDE LINE — MARKS USED IN EDITING — ADDITIONS AND INSERTIONS — THE LIGHTER SIDE — THE COPY READER’S SCHEDULE
14. 14.CHAPTER XIII WRITING THE HEAD — FIRST REQUISITES OF THE HEAD — DEFINITENESS — THE QUESTION OF TENSE — THE MECHANICS OF THE HEAD — SOME THINGS TO AVOID — SYMMETRY AND SENSE — SPECIAL KINDS OF HEADS — CAPITALIZATION
15. 15.CHAPTER XIV DON’TS FOR THE NEWS WRITER
16. 16.CHAPTER XV NEWSPAPER BROMIDES
17. 17.INDEX

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