Newspaper Writing and Editing

=Kinds of Feature Stories.= Most news stories, it has been seen, aim to be nothing more than concise presentations of the essential facts concerning current events. They are int...

=The Newspaper Worker and His Work.= Any discussion of newspaper writing and editing would be incomplete if it did not consider the function of the newspaper and the relation of...

=Writing the News.= After the reporter has found the news and has collected all the important details concerning it, he must write it up for publication. To present the news eff...

=Special News Fields.= Although practically all kinds of news stories conform to the general principles explained and illustrated in preceding chapters, the application of these...

=Various Forms of Utterances.= As news stories of speeches, sermons, lectures, official reports, and interviews, as well as of testimony, decisions, and arguments in trials and...

=The Problem of News Gathering.= The mystery of newspaper making, to the uninitiated, is how editors and reporters find out everything that happens and how they get it into prin...

=Kinds of Occurrences.= Reports of unexpected occurrences of various kinds may be taken as typical of news stories generally. Fires, railroad and trolley wrecks, mine and tunnel...

=The Function of the Headline.= Headlines as developed by the American press during the last half-century have come to be, next to the news itself, the most important part of ou...

=Newspaper Production.= To furnish for a cent or two a fairly complete record of important events that take place in any corner of the world, editorial comment, market quotation...

=News Possibilities.= The possibilities contained in a piece of news are seldom completely exhausted by the first story published concerning it. Causes, results, and significant...

=What Copy-Reading Means.= All news stories, whether written by reporters, sent through the mail by correspondents, or received by telegraph or telephone, must be read and edite...

=Problems of the News.= As news is the _sine qua non_ of the newspaper, the problem of newspaper making resolves itself into the three questions: What is news? Where and how is...

=Importance of the “Make-Up.”= Although the editing of a newspaper is often regarded as completed when the managing editor has passed upon the proofs of all the matter that the...

=How Proof is Corrected.= After copy has been set up in type, the type is put into a long, narrow metal tray called a “galley.” On a small hand or power press a printed sheet of...