Reporters and reporting
“To be explicit, easy, free, and very plain,” was the ideal set down for himself by Daniel Defoe in his news-writing more than two hundred years ago. And despite its age the advice could hardly be bettered for a newspaper man of today. For after all, what a modern reader of th...
“To be explicit, easy, free, and very plain,” was the ideal set down for himself by Daniel Defoe in his news-writing more than two hundred years ago. And despite its age the adv...
2. Part 2Figures are never used to start off the lead nor are they ever used at the beginning of any sentence in the story. Either some such word as “About” or “Exactly” is used, or the...
3. Part 3The art of developing follow-up features, however, is one of the reporter’s most valuable gifts, it may be stated in passing, and nowhere is it so important to have that “nose f...