The Writing of News / A Handbook with Chapters on Newspaper Correspondence and Copy Reading

THE WRITING OF NEWS
A HANDBOOK
WITH CHAPTERS ON NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENCE AND COPY READING
BY CHARLES G. ROSS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM IN THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1911, BY HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
Published November, 1911
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
TO MY MOTHER
In preparing this volume the author has had in mind the needs not only of students in schools of journalism, but of others who may desire a concise statement of the principles that govern the art of news writing as practiced by the American newspaper. It is hoped the book will prove helpful either as a laboratory guide in the school room or as a text book for home use.
As the title indicates, the book deals with one phase of journalism, the presentation of the news story, more especially with the writing of the story—the reporter’s part in the day’s work. No attempt has been made to go into other aspects of journalism—the writing of editorials, the administrative features of the work, the delicate adjustment that every newspaper must make between its business and news departments—except in so far as they bear directly upon the subject in hand.
The term journalism is broadly used here to mean all branches of newspaper endeavor. In common with other newspaper men, the author admits an aversion to the word as restricted to the working field of the men who get and write the news. They call themselves not journalists, but reporters or newspaper men. It is for newspaper men and women in the making that the book is primarily designed.