News Reporting and Writing

This edition continues to illustrate the principles of news reporting and writing with telling examples from print and broadcast journalism. Students are shown journalistic principles and concepts so that they may write accurate, precise and captivating news stories. Increasingly important news topics such as religion, education, domestic violence, juvenile crime and campus crime are included in this edition.

One of the techniques is the news feature . The writer " featurizes " the straight news event by putting a delayed lead on the story . By the time The New York Times was on newsstands and doorsteps , everyone knew the end to a legal ...