# Hints on news reporting

Author: Sheehan, Murray, 1887-1963; Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951 [Editor]

Genre: Reporters and reporting

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77396

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Hints+on+news+reporting+Sheehan&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

“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 the news-column wants is a detailed account of some happening, written in such a style that it can be easily and rapidly read without thought to its grammar or construction, and can be easily understood throughout. That Defoe was master of such a style in his own writing will be granted by anyone who has read his “Robinson Crusoe”--and who has not!--a style which can be understood by a child of seven or eight and yet w...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hints-on-news-reporting-77396/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hints-on-news-reporting-77396/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/hints-on-news-reporting-77396/chapters/3/index.md)