Newspaper Writing and Editing

by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

FOOTNOTES

[1] “Telling the Tale of the ‘Titanic,’” by Alex. McD. Stoddart; The Independent, May 2, 1912.

[2] Collier’s Weekly, March 18, 1911, p. 22.

[3] “What the City Editor does when a Gaynor is shot,” by Alex. McD Stoddart; The Independent, August 25, 1910.

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INDEX

• Abbreviations in copy, [226].
• Abbreviations in headlines, [288].
• Accidents, news stories of, [101], [109].
• Accuracy in news, limitations to, [341].
• Accuracy in news, necessity for, [51], [341].
• Ad alley, [328].
• Addresses, reporting, [46].
• Adds in copy, [61], [260].
• Advance copy of speeches, etc., [47], [58].
• Advance stories, release of, [48], [57].
• Advertisements, position for, [8].
• Advertisers, suppression of news by, [344].
• Advertising, growth of, [334].
• Advertising, influence of, on news, [343].
• Advertising of news in headlines, [271].
• Advertising, questionable, [350].
• Advertising manager, [3].
• Advertising space, how measured, [265].
• Agate line measure for advertisements, [265].
• Animal stories, [218].
• Art department, [14].
• Articles, beginning news stories with, [75].
• Assignment book, or sheet, [33], [36].
• Assignments, reporters’, [32], [36].
• Associated Press, [56].
• Associated Press, news bulletin of, [12].
• Autoplate stereotyping machine, [9], [10].
• Bank in composing room, [328].
• Bankmen, [328].
• Banks in headlines, [274].
• Banner heads, [305].
• Banquets, reporting, [174].
• Baseball games, news stories of, [167].
• Beat in publishing news, [31], [51].
• Beat, or news run, [31].
• Beginnings for news stories, [69], [103], [110], [128], [144].
• Beginnings to be avoided, [74].
• Body of news story, [88], [132].
• Body type, [264].
• Boiling down news, [205].
• Bold-face type, [264].
• Boston Transcript, story from, [184].
• Boxed facts in news stories, [86].
• Bulletins, news, [34], [57], [261].
• Bulletins, news, double leaded, [265].
• Bureaus, city news, [32].
• Burglaries, news stories of, [110].
• Business element in newspaper publishing, growth of, [332].
• Business management of newspapers, [2].
• Cable editor, [12].
• Camera, reporter’s use of, [49].
• Capital necessary in newspaper publishing, [333].
• Cases, type, [264].
• Cashier, [3].
• Casting box, stereotyping, [9].
• Catch-lines in copy, [259], [260].
• Chase, [8].
• Chicago Tribune, stories from, [82], [83], [214].
• Children, news value of, [23].
• Children in human interest stories, [213].
• Christmas celebrations, [174], [181].
• City editors, [5], [32].
• City news bureaus, [32].
• Collier’s Weekly, definitions of news in, [17].
• Colored headlines, [273].
• Colored news, [343].
• Column rules, [8].
• Column, width of, [265].
• Comics, printing of, [11].
• Composing room, [3].
• Composing room terms, [328].
• Composing stick, [265].
• Compositors, [3].
• Conventions, reporting, [136].
• Copy, [5].
• Copy, common errors in, [257].
• Copy, essentials of good, [60].
• Copy-cutter, [3], [7], [14].
• Copy-desk, [5], [13], [258].
• Copy-reader, how he works, [258].
• Copy-reader, qualifications of, [255].
• Copy-reading, [255].
• Copy-reading, example of, [267].
• Copy-reading, marks used in, [266].
• Correspondent, duties of, [54].
• Correspondent, instructions to, [57].
• Courts as news sources, [30].
• Courts, news stories of, [144].
• Crime, news stories of, [110].
• [Pg 362]Crime stories, leads for, [112].
• Criminal court news, [30].
• Cross-line heads, [276].
• Cuts, [5], [338].
• Decisions, news stories of, [150].
• Decks in headlines, [274].
• Defalcations, news stories of, [110].
• Department store advertising, [334].
• Dispatches, filing of, [57].
• Display type, [264].
• Drop-line heads, [274], [275].
• Editing copy, [255], [266].
• Editor, city, [5], [32].
• Editor, managing, [5].
• Editor, telegraph, [5].
• Editorial policy, [4].
• Editorials, purpose of, [4].
• Editorial writers, [4].
• Editor-in-chief, [4].
• Editors, news, [5].
• Em as type measure, [265].
• Embezzlements, news stories of, [110].
• End mark in copy, [61], [260].
• Engagements, announcements of, [170].
• Ethics of journalism, [339], [357].
• Exchange editor, [5].
• Exchanges, news rewritten from, [206].
• Extraordinary events, news value of, [19].
• Faces of type, [264].
• Fakes, effects of, [354].
• Faking news, [353].
• Feature articles, style in, [229].
• Feature articles, subjects for, [225].
• Feature stories, [211].
• Features for crime stories, [110].
• Features for fire stories, [103].
• Features for rewrite stories, [196].
• Features, playing up the, [67].
• Figures at beginning of sentence, [75].
• Figures in headlines, [290].
• Filing news despatches, [57].
• Filing queries and schedules, [54].
• Fillers, [206].
• Fire losses, boxed, [86].
• Fires, stories of, [101], [106].
• Flash, or news bulletin, [35], [261].
• Flimsy, guide lines on, [261].
• Following up the news, [43], [194].
• Follows in copy, [260].
• Follow up stories, [194], [201].
• Fonts of type, [264].
• Football games, stories of, [162].
• Forms, page, [8], [329].
• Free lance writers, [224].
• Fudge printing device, [11].
• Function of newspaper, [331].
• Future books, editors’, [32].
• Gaynor, Mayor, news of shooting of, [34].
• Government publications, news stories from, [154].
• Government publications, special articles from, [225].
• Grammatical errors in copy, [257].
• Graveyard, obituaries in, [183].
• Guide-lines in copy, [259], [261].
• Hanging indention in heads, [274], [277].
• Headlines, abbreviations in, [288].
• Headlines and yellow journalism, [272].
• Headlines as advertisements of news, [271].
• Headlines, figures in, [290].
• Headlines, forms of, [274], [277].
• Headlines, function of, [271].
• Headlines, impartial and colored, [273].
• Headlines, methods of building, [294].
• Headlines, punctuation in, [292].
• Headlines, style in, [287].
• Headlines, tone of, [282].
• Headlines, type limits of, [279].
• Heads, banner, [305].
• Heads, jump-, [304].
• Heads, side-, [126].
• Heads, sub-, [302].
• Hearings, reporting, [145].
• Hell-box, [329].
• Holidays, stories of celebrations of, [174].
• Home edition, [327].
• Hotels as news source, [30].
• Human interest, news value of, [22].
• Human interest stories, [211], [212], [213].
• Humorous feature stories, [213].
• Illustrations, increase in, [338].
• Inaccuracy in news, dangers of, [355].
• Independent, articles from the, [12], [34].
• Inserts in copy, [61], [260].
• Instructions to correspondents, [57].
• International News Service, [56].
• Interviewing, [44].
• Interviews by telephone, [48].
• Interviews, form of, [139].
• Interviews, groups of, [140].
• Interviews in feature articles, [240], [243].
• Investigations, news stories of, [145].
• Items, news, [206].
• Jump-heads, [304].
• [Pg 363]Justifying forms, [329].
• Labor editor, [5].
• Leaded type, [265].
• Leads between lines of type, [265].
• Leads, or beginnings, [66].
• Leads, explanatory details in, [75].
• Leads for crime stories, [110].
• Leads for fire stories, [103].
• Leads for rewrite stories, [196].
• Leads for speeches, etc., [128].
• Leads for trials, [144].
• Leads, how to begin, [69].
• Leads, leaded, [265].
• Leads, unconventional, [75].
• Lectures, reporting, [126].
• Legal proceedings, reporting, [152].
• Librarian, [5].
• Linotype machine, [3], [10].
• Linotype slugs, [10], [11], [329].
• Lists of dead and injured, boxed, [88].
• Local ends of news, [6], [25], [195].
• Local news, value of, [24].
• Locking page forms, [329].
• Long-hand copy, [60].
• Long-hand reporting, [46].
• Lower case letters in type, [265].
• Magazine articles, news stories from, [154].
• Magazine articles, style in, [229].
• Magazine articles, subjects for, [225].
• Magazine section, editor of, [5].
• Magazine section, printing of, [11].
• Magazine section, stories for, [223].
• Mail editions, [327].
• Mailing machine for newspapers, [11].
• Mailing newspapers, [9].
• Make-up of newspapers, [8], [322].
• Make-up, contrast in, [323].
• Make-up, front page, [322], [325].
• Make-up, importance of, [322].
• Make-up, positions of prominence in, [324].
• Make-up schedule, [327].
• Make-up, symmetry in, [324].
• Make-up, types of, [322].
• Making-up different editions, [327].
• Managing editor, [5].
• Marine editor, [5].
• Market edition, [327].
• Market editor, [5].
• Market reports, [26].
• Mat, stereotyping, [9].
• Matrix, stereotyping, [9].
• Measurement of type, [263].
• Meetings, reporting, [136].
• Monotype machine, [3], [10].
• Morgue, newspaper, [5], [6], [183].
• Murders, news stories of, [110].
• Names, accuracy in printing, [51].
• News, accuracy and completeness of, [341].
• News, adulterated, [349].
• News associations, [56].
• News, boiling down, [205].
• News bureaus, city, [32].
• News, coloring of, [346], [349].
• News, covering big, [33].
• News, defined by editors, [17].
• News, definition of, [18].
• News editor, [5].
• News, effects of adulterated, [349].
• News, essentials of, [18].
• News, following up the, [43], [194].
• News gathering, [29], [34], [36].
• News, getting it into print, [6], [12].
• News, grouping of, in make-up, [325].
• News items, [206].
• News, nose for, [50].
• News policy, sinister influences on, [343].
• News policy determined by editors, [356].
• News runs, [31].
• News sources, [30].
• News staff, [5].
• News, suppression of, [53], [343], [352].
• News, timeliness in, [19].
• News values, [18].
• New York Evening Post, stories from, [181], [232], [238].
• New York Herald, establishment of, [332].
• New York Sun, stories from, [78], [80], [174], [187], [215], [218], [236], [240].
• New York Times, story from, [244].
• New York Tribune, establishment of, [332].
• New York Tribune, stories from, [178], [216], [230].
• Night city editor, [5].
• Night editor, [5].
• Night press rate, telegraph, [57].
• Noon edition, [327].
• Nose for news, [50].
• Note book in reporting, [52].
• Note taking, [46].
• Obituaries, [183].
• Organization of a newspaper, [2].
• Ownership of newspapers, [333].
• Ownership of newspapers, influence of, on policy, [343], [347].
• Paragraph length in news stories, [64].
• Paragraph marks in copy, [61], [266].
• Pathetic feature stories, [222].
• Pathetic feature stories, style in, [213].
• [Pg 364]Personality sketch, [228].
• Personal journalism, decline of, [335].
• Photographer, staff, [49].
• Photographs for newspaper cuts, [49].
• Pi, type, [9].
• Pica as type measure, [265].
• Pied type, [9].
• Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, story from, [222].
• Planer, [329].
• Planing down forms, [329].
• Plate, stereotyping, [9].
• Platform, political, boxed, [87].
• Point system of measuring type, [263].
• Police headquarters as news source, [30].
• Police news stories, [110].
• Political subjects for feature stories, [228].
• Politics, news value of, [22].
• Position of advertisements, [8].
• Practice work, [94], [116], [156], [191], [208], [249], [306].
• Press associations, [56].
• Presses, newspaper, [10].
• Press, proof, [7].
• Press room, [3].
• Printing newspapers, process of, [9].
• Printing presses, newspaper, [10].
• Proof correcting, [315].
• Proof, example of corrected, [319].
• Proof, galley, [7], [315].
• Proof, marks for correcting, [316].
• Proof, revised, [8].
• Proof-reading, [3], [315].
• Proof-room, [315].
• Punctuation, common errors in, [257].
• Pyramid banks in headlines, [274], [276].
• Queries, schedule of, [55].
• Query, correspondent’s, [54].
• Questions at beginning of lead, [82].
• Quoins, [9], [329].
• Quotation marks in copy, [60], [266].
• Quotations in lead of news stories, [128].
• Quotations, misleading, playing up, [128].
• Quotations, verbatim in news stories, [126].
• Railroad editor, [5].
• Real estate editor, [5].
• Receptions, stories of, [169].
• Release date on advance stories, [48], [57].
• Reporter, ethical problems of, [352], [357].
• Reporter, how he gets news, [36].
• Reporter, qualifications of, [50].
• Reporter, suppression of news by, [53], [352].
• Revises, proof, [8].
• Rewrite man, [5], [194].
• Rewrite stories, [194].
• Robberies, news stories of, [110].
• Rules, column, [8].
• Running stories, [46].
• Runs, reporters’, [31].
• Schedule, make-up, [327].
• Schedule of queries, [55].
• Science, popularizing in special articles, [227].
• Scoop in publishing news, [31], [51].
• Second day stories, [43], [201].
• Sentence length in news stories, [64].
• Sermons, reporting, [126].
• Ship news reporters, [30].
• Short-hand reporting, [46].
• Side heads on news items, [126].
• Slang in headlines, [290].
• Slang in sporting news, [169].
• Slug, compositor’s, [328].
• Slug, linotype, [10], [11].
• Slugging a story, [259].
• Society editor, [5], [169].
• Society news, [169].
• Special articles, [211], [223].
• Special articles, style in, [229].
• Special articles, subjects for, [225].
• Special feature stories, [211], [223].
• Speeches, boxed excerpts from, [87].
• Speeches, news stories of, [126].
• Speeches, reporting, [46], [126].
• Speeches, reporting series of, [136].
• Sporting editor, [5].
• Sporting extra, [11], [327].
• Sporting news stories, form of, [161].
• Sporting news stories, style of, [169].
• Sports, news value of, [22].
• State exchanges, news rewritten from, [206].
• Statistics at beginning of special articles, [229].
• Stereotyped plates, [9], [10].
• Stereotyping, [9], [10].
• Stereotyping room, [3].
• Stick, composing, [265].
• Stickful as measure of copy, [265].
• Stock company ownership of newspapers, [333].
• Stock exchanges, news of, [31].
• Stoddart, Alex. McD., articles by, [12], [34].
• Stone, composing, [329].
• Stories, human interest, [211].
• Stories, news, body of, [88].
• Stories, news, handling big, [12].
• Stories, news, leads for, [66], [69], [75], [110], [128].
• [Pg 365]Stories, news, style in, [61].
• Stories, special feature, [211], [223].
• String, correspondent’s, [55].
• Style book, newspaper, [258].
• Style, newspaper, essentials of, [61].
• Style in headlines, [287].
• Style in human interest stories, [213].
• Style in special articles, [229].
• Style, typographical, [63].
• Subheads, [302].
• Suggestions, [16], [28], [58], [93], [115], [155], [192], [207], [248], [269], [305], [321], [329], [359].
• Suicides, news stories of, [110].
• Summaries boxed in news stories, [86].
• Sunday editor, [5].
• Sunday magazine articles, [223].
• Sunday newspapers, growth of, [338].
• Suppression of news, [53], [343], [352].
• Takes of copy, [7], [14], [328].
• Technical subjects for special articles, [227].
• Telegraph copy, guide lines on, [261].
• Telegraph editor, [5].
• Telegraph news, filing of, [57].
• Telegraph news, form of, [12], [261].
• Telephone, assignments by, [48].
• Telephone directory, value of, [51].
• Telephone, getting news by, [48].
• Testimony, forms of, [147].
• Timeliness in news, [19].
• Titanic disaster, news of, [12], [32].
• Trials, news stories of, [144].
• Trials, reporting, [47].
• Type cases, [264].
• Type cast on monotype, [10], [329].
• Type, distributing, [329].
• Type-high cuts, [266].
• Type, leaded and solid, [265].
• Type, measurement of, [263], [265].
• Type, names of, [263], [264].
• Type, off its feet, [329].
• Type, set by hand, [265].
• Type, sizes and kinds, [263].
• Unexpected occurrences, news stories of, [101].
• United Press, [56].
• United Press, news stories from, [261].
• Unusual, news value of the, [19].
• Uplift run, [31].
• Upper case letters in type, [265].
• Utterances, news stories of, [126].
• Want ad at beginning of news story, [85].
• Weddings, stories of, [169].
• Whitlock, Brand, article by, [245].
• Witnesses, news stories of testimony by, [147].
• Woman’s clubs, news of, [173].
• Women as newspaper readers, [338].
• Yellow journalism and big headlines, [272].
• Yellow journalism, criticisms of, [344], [348].
• Yellow journalism, advent of, in New York, [336].
• Yellow journalism and foreign population in cities, [337].
• Zoo, animal stories from, [23], [218].

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