Filled with current examples and tips from Pulitzer Prize-winning professionals,Writing and Reporting the News as a Storyteaches modern news writing and offers timely advice on ethics and career advancement. Unlike many beginning newswriting texts,Writing and Reporting the News as a Storystarts with a focus on storytelling. It tackles many of the coaching techniques that other texts leave to writing coaches or other sources. Readers learn to write clear, declarative sentences which evolve into well-written paragraphs and eventually stories. The book offers an obvious roadmap to writing effectively, placing a premium on helping to unlock the secrets of vigorous prose. The book includes hard-edged and aggressive breaking news stories and shows how to write in the urgent and vivid style their readers now expect.