01578cam a2200253 a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000190008802000280010704000180013505000140015308200160016710000210018324500680020425000130027226000530028530000310033850000220036950508760039165000290126765000280129616023879OSt20210414114449.0091215s2011    nyua          001 0 eng    a  2009052795  a9780073511993   a0073511994 (alk. paper)  aDLCcDLCdDLC00aPN4781.M400a070.4/32221 aMencher, Melvin.10aMelvin Mencher's news reporting and writing. /cMelvin Mencher.  a12th ed.  aNew York :bMcGraw-Hill Higher Education,c2011.  axx,618p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes indexes.  aContents: 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. 0aReporters and reporting. 0aJournalismxAuthorship.