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Practical Newspaper Reporting
Fourth Edition
December 2010 | 224 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Now in its Fourth Edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry. Today, as ever, it provides students of newspaper journalism with a toolkit for gathering news and filling ever-increasing space with first-rate copy for print and online.
Key Features:
- Offers guidance on news gathering, from government and business to sport and religion
- Provides guidance on news writing, drawing on over 300 examples that have appeared in print, discussing why they work or how they could have been better
- Gives guidance on feature writing, including profiles, comment, leading articles, obituaries and reviews
- Presents specific chapters on ethical reporting and the possibilities and pitfalls of investigative journalism
- Includes a review of the new financial realities that the internet is imposing on the media
Informed by over half a century's professional experience and fully revised to give a nuanced account of the skills required in an online environment, this book is an essential companion for your journalism degree and beyond.
News and How to Find It
Pursuing News: What Do I Need to Know?
Interviewing
Newswriting: What Am I Trying to Say?
Newswriting: Choosing the Words
Newswriting: Getting the Words in Order
Newswriting for the Internet
Sportswriting
Reporting the Courts
Government and the Media
Reporting Business
Investigative Reporting
Features: Illuminating the world
Religion and Diversity
Ethics: What You Write Could Get Someone Killed
This book is valuable for students within and outside of journalism programs. It presents practical approaches to writing engaging newspaper publications.
Education , Univ. of Manchester
March 6, 2015
A good introduction to the subject. There are surprisingly few good alternatives.
Media, University of Hertfordshire
February 15, 2013
