Overview

This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:

• What is news?
• How the modern newsroom operates
• How facts are gathered and checked
• The reporter and picture ideas
• District reporting
• Techniques of interviewing
• News writing and newspaper language
• How to summarize
• Reporting the courts
• Political and industrial reporting
• Aspects of sportswriting
• Feature writing and arts reviewing

The book also includes an important new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage and it examines a newspaper's internal structure and the reporter's daily work in the light of the latest technology.

This classic textbook is a must for all journalism and media courses and offers the ideal career introduction for the young journalist.