Practical Newspaper Reporting (3rd ed)

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; and 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.

A leading guide to all aspects of a reporter's job, the third edition has been extensively revised and updated.

It includes new material on sports writing and ethical journalism and a new chapter on the place of local government in newspaper coverage.