Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Editing in the Age of Convergence.

2. Deciding What’s News.

3. The Editor in the Newsroom.

4. Editors as Managers.

5. Working With Stories.

6. Word Watching.

7. Writing Headlines.

8. Editors and Design.

9. Editing Photos and Graphics.

10. Editing News Services.

11. Imagination in News Editing.

12. When News Breaks.

13. Editing and the Law.

14. Editing and Ethics.

15. Policy and Responsibility.

Glossary.

Bibliography.

Index

About the Author

Mark D. Ludwig is an assistant professor in the Communications Studies Department at California State University, Sacramento, where he teaches classes in reporting and editing. He has worked as an editor in various capacities at nine newspapers – including the Los Angeles Times and the San Jose Mercury News – and a magazine, Business 2.0.

Gene Gilmore, author of the first four editions of Modern Newspaper Editing, started his journalism teaching career at Syracuse University and spent more than 20 years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has worked on 13 newspapers, including a weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the now defunct Philadelphia Bulletin.