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Melvin Mencher's news reporting and writing. / Melvin Mencher.

By: Mencher, MelvinMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2011Edition: 12th edDescription: xx,618p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780073511993 ; 0073511994 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Reporters and reporting | Journalism -- AuthorshipDDC classification: 070.4/3 LOC classification: PN4781.M4
Contents:
Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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.
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Contents: 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 -- 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 -- 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.

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