TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mencher,Melvin
TI  - Melvin Mencher's news reporting and writing.
SN  - 9780073511993 
AV  - PN4781.M4 
U1  - 070.4/3 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - McGraw-Hill Higher Education
KW  - Reporters and reporting
KW  - Journalism
KW  - Authorship
N1  - 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
ER  -