Practical Newspaper Reporting

By: David Spark, Geoffrey Harris

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Paperback | 13 August 1997 | Edition Number 3

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264 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4

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This guide to all aspects of the reporter's job, has been extensively revised and updated for a third edition. It considers:
What is news?
How the modern newsroom operates
How facts are gathered and checked
The reporter and picture ideas
District reporting
Techniques of interviewing
News writing and newspaper language
How to summarize
Reporting the courts
Political and industrial reporting
Aspects of sportswriting
Feature writing and arts reviewing

The book also includes an important new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage and it examines a newspaper's internal structure and the reporter's daily work in the light of the latest technology.
This classic textbook is a must for all journalism and media courses and offers the ideal career introduction for the young journalist.
Leading guide to all aspects of a reporter's job
Third edition has been extensively revised and updated
New material on sports writing and ethical journalism and a new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage.

Industry Reviews

'The book would stand on its own as a style manual - but it goes much further than that... It is very much the journalist's how-to manual.' WRITING MAGAZINE

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