Practical Newspaper Reporting

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.