Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing
ISBN: 9780073511993 | 0073511994
Edition: 12thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Pub. Date: 2/17/2010
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More than a quarter of a million students have learned the craft and ethics of journalism from Melvin Mencher's News Reporting and Writing. This classic text shows students the fundamentals of reporting and writing and examines the values that direct and underline the practice of journalism. The new edition features current developments in all areas of reporting, discusses the use of stark photos, provides dozens of new Internet sources and demonstrates how journalists use them. Also included in the eleventh edition are guides for campaign and ... MORE
| The Reporter At Work | |
| On the Job | |
| The Basics | |
| Components of the Story | |
| Writing the Story | |
| What Is News? | |
| The Internet and Other Tools of the Trade | |
| The Lead | |
| Story Structure | |
| The Writer's Art | |
| Features, Long Stories and Series | |
| Broadcast Newswriting | ... MORE |
| Writing News Releases | |
| Reporting Principles | |
| Digging for Information | |
| Making Sound Observations | |
| Building and Using Background | |
| Finding, Cultivating and Using Sources | |
| Interviewing Principles and Practices | |
| Speeches, Meetings and News Conferences | |
| Hunches, Feelings and Stereotypes | |
| From Accidents to Education | |
| Accidents and Disasters | |
| Obituaries | |
| The Police Beat | |
| The Courts | |
| Sports | |
| Business Reporting | |
| Local Government and Education | |
| Laws, Taste and Taboos, Codes and Ethics | |
| Reporters and the Law | |
| Taste--Defining the Appropriate | |
| The Morality of Journalism | |
| Stylebook | |
| Glossary | |
| Index | |
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