| 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 |
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