01860cam a2200301 a 4500 16023879 OSt 20210414114449.0 091215s2011 nyua 001 0 eng 2009052795 9780073511993 0073511994 (alk. paper) DLC DLC DLC PN4781.M4 070.4/3 22 Mencher, Melvin. Melvin Mencher's news reporting and writing. / Melvin Mencher. 12th ed. New York : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2011. xx,618p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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. Reporters and reporting. Journalism Authorship. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 5574 13074 0 0 lcc 0 0 WIUC-1 WIUC-1 REF 2015-06-29 0 PN4781.M4 7979/406/15 2015-06-29 00:00:00 2015-06-29 BK