Appleton, Wisconsin

March 12, 1917

CONTENTS

PART I
[ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER]
I. Introduction[3]
II. The Editorial Rooms[5]
III. The Mechanical Department[13]
IV. The Business Department[20]
PART II
[THE NEWS STORY]
V. What News Is[25]
VI. News Sources[34]
VII. Getting the Story[42]
VIII. Organization of the Story[57]
IX. The Lead[68]
X. The Body of the Story[84]
XI. The Paragraph[97]
XII. The Sentence[99]
XIII. Words[116]
PART III
[TYPES OF STORIES]
XIV. Interviews, Speeches, Courts[125]
XV. Accident, Crime[149]
XVI. Sports[164]
XVII. Society[199]
XVIII. Follow-ups, Rewrites[212]
XIX. Feature Stories[224]
XX. Correspondence Stories[235]
APPENDIX
Style Book[249]
Marks Used in Correcting Copy[273]
Corrected Copy[275]
Specimen Proof[276]
Terminology[278]
Exercises[285]
Index[353]

PART I
ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER

NEWS WRITING
ORGANIZATION OF THE PAPER

I. INTRODUCTION