Includes indexes.

Contents: The reporter at work: On the job -- The basics: Components of the story -- Writing the story: What is news? -- The internet and other tools of the trade -- The lead -- Story structure -- The writer's art -- Features, long stories and series -- Broadcast newswriting -- Writing news releases -- Reporting principles: Digging for information -- Making sound observations -- Building and using background -- Finding, cultivating and using sources -- Interviewing principles and practices -- Speeches, meetings and news conferences -- Hunches, feelings and stereotypes -- Accidents to education: Accidents and disasters -- Obituaries -- The police beat -- The courts -- Sports -- Business reporting -- Local government and education -- Laws, taste and taboos, codes and ethics: Reporters and the law -- Taste: Defining the appropriate -- The morality of journalism.