Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing

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Everything that is written for the paper, whether it be a two-line personal item or a two-column report, is called a _story_, or a _yarn_, and from the time the story is written...

6. _Temporal Clause._--A feature may often be brought to the beginning of the lead by a simple transposition of clauses. Should the time be important a subordinate _when_ or _wh...

8. Cut out all useless words in students' exercises; strive for brevity. Go through a student's story and weigh the value of each word, phrase, and sentence; cut out the useless...

When a good story breaks close to edition time and the circumstances justify it, use the long-distance telephone, but first be reasonably certain _The Star_ will not get the sto...

And so the stories ran for many days until newspaper readers had lost all interest in the fire. Most of the stories were simply retellings of the original story with a new bit o...

The beginning of a human interest story is always the most important part; just like a news story, it must attract attention with its first line. In the same way, a good beginni...

=3. Rescues.=--(a) _Number of People Rescued._--When people are rescued from great danger in a fire their escape makes a very good feature. If many of them are rescued or escape...

Use brackets to set off any expression or remark thrown into a speech or quotation and not originally in it: "The Republican party is again in power--[cheers]--and is come to st...

| But a few hours before receiving a | |sentence of two years in the house of | |correction for stealing furs from the | |store of Lohse Bros., 117 Wisconsin | |street, John Gar...

Thus, while telling the story almost in its logical order, we have picked out the high spots of interest and crowded them to the beginning. Our readers will get the facts just a...

=3. Indirect Quotation Beginning.=--This method is best adapted to the playing up of a brief resumé of the content of the speech. It is sometimes called the "_that_-clause begin...

The impossibility of using a notebook or writing down a man's words in an interview seriously complicates the task of interviewing. Some reporters train themselves until they ar...

These quotations are usually interspersed with paragraphs which summarize the unimportant intervening testimony. The running story attempts to follow the progress of the hearing...

To take a hypothetical case, suppose that misfortune visits the home of John H. Jones, who lives at 79 Liberty Street. A defective flue sets his house on fire and it burns to th...

When, as the critic watches the play, some idea comes to him for his report he should jot it down. As the play progresses he should develop this idea and watch for details that...

All three of these stories are alike in the general facts which they contain; they differ only in the number of minor details which they include in the elaboration of these gene...

A human interest story is primarily an attempt to portray human feeling--to talk about men as men and not as names or things. It is an attempt to look upon life with sympathetic...

If the case had not been of such broad interest a lead embodying a summary of the interviews might have preceded the individual statements. It might have been done in this way:

Abbreviations, 287. Accidents, 3, 107-109, 291. Accuracy, 145, 168, 209, 212, 290. Addresses, style of, 278, 279, 286, 288, 290, 310. Advertising, 28. Ages, how written, 286. An...