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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
PREFACE
CONTENTS
PART I ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
NEWS WRITING ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER
I. INTRODUCTION
II. THE EDITORIAL ROOMS
III. THE MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
IV. THE BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
PART II THE NEWS STORY
THE NEWS STORY
V. WHAT NEWS IS
VI. NEWS SOURCES
VII. GETTING THE STORY
VIII. ORGANIZATION OF THE STORY
IX. THE LEAD[11]
X. THE BODY OF THE STORY
XI. THE PARAGRAPH
XII. THE SENTENCE[18]
XIII. WORDS
PART III TYPES OF STORIES
TYPES OF STORIES
XIV. INTERVIEWS, SPEECHES, COURTS
XV. ACCIDENT, CRIME
XVI. SPORTS
XVII. SOCIETY
XVIII. FOLLOW-UPS, REWRITES
XIX. FEATURE STORIES
XX. CORRESPONDENCE STORIES
APPENDIX
STYLE-BOOK
I. HANDLING COPY
II. PUNCTUATION
1. Capital Letters
2. The Period
3. The Colon
4. The Semicolon
5. The Comma
6. The Dash
7. Parentheses
8. Quotation-Marks
9. The Apostrophe
10. The Hyphen
10. Abbreviations
11. Numbers
MARKS USED IN CORRECTING COPY
CORRECTIONS
CORRECTED PROOF
PROOF-READERS' MARKS
TERMINOLOGY
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
INDEX
ADVERTISEMENTS
Government and Economics
HANDBOOK OF COMPOSITION
MECHANICS OF WRITING
EXERCISES IN ENGLISH
WRITTEN ENGLISH
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