Table of Contents

Contents

Foreword

Part I: News - people and institutions

1. The newsroom

2. The audience

3. The watchdogs

Part II: The raw material

4. Sources of news

Part III: News-gathering

5. Generating news stories

6. The rounds

7. Legal and ethical issues

8. Interviewing

9. Working with numerical information

Part IV: News writing

10. The news story structure

11. News writing - guidelines

12. News writing - grammar

Part V: Putting it all together

13. Writing the news story

14. Feature stories

15. News photography

16. Working with video and audio

17. Working on air and on camera

Part VI: Professional options

18. The career path

References

Index

About the Author

Barbara Alysen is the author of The Electronic Reporter. Mandy Oakham is editor of Don't Bury the Lead. Roger Patching is co-author of Journalism Ethics. Gail Sedorkin is the author of Interviewing.

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