The universal journalist /
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| Author / Creator: | Randall, David, 1951- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | London ; Sterling Va. : Pluto Press, 2000. |
| Description: | ix, 225 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4441473 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1. What Makes A Good Reporter?
- Attitudes
- Character
- A great reporter
- 2. The Limitations of Journalism
- Owners' priorities
- The journalistic culture
- Readers' values
- 3. What Is News?
- What is news?
- News values
- News value factors
- A sliding scale for stories
- 4. Where Do Good Stories Come From?
- The habits of successful reporters
- Non-obvious sources
- News editors
- Stories that good reporters avoid
- 5. Research
- What you should be looking for
- Where to get it
- Researching online
- Printed sources
- Research as a foreign correspondent
- 6. Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You
- Guidelines for dealing with any source
- Official sources
- Handling unauthorised sources
- Unattributable sources 'off the record'
- Getting too close to sources
- 7. Questioning
- How to approach people
- The most useful questions in journalism
- Questioning uneasy sources
- Questioning elusive, evasive and hostile sources
- Questioning by email
- Press conferences
- Celebrity interviews
- 8. Reporting Numbers and Statistics
- Questioning data
- Averages
- Distribution
- Percentages
- Per head
- Surveys
- Opinion polls
- Correlation
- Projections
- Real versus apparent rise
- 9. Investigative Reporting
- What is investigative reporting?
- Productive areas to investigate
- Investigative reporting skills
- How to run investigative operations
- 10. How To Cover Major Incidents
- How to make sure your coverage of a disaster doesn't turn into one
- Death tolls
- The death call
- All reporters are tough, aren't they?
- 11. Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes
- Mistakes
- How should you respond to mistakes?
- Great newspaper hoaxes
- 12. Ethics
- General guidelines
- Grey areas
- 13. Writing for Newspapers
- Planning
- Clarity
- Fresh language
- Honesty
- Precision
- Suitability
- Efficiency
- Revision
- The joys of writing
- 14. Intros
- How to write sharp intros
- Hard news approach
- Other approaches
- A word about feature intros
- 15. Construction and Description
- Construction guidelines
- Analysing story structures
- Payoffs
- Attribution
- Description
- 16. Handling Quotes
- When do you use quotes?
- Accuracy
- Efficiency
- Attributing quotes
- Inventing quotes
- 17. Different Ways To Tell A Story
- Different approaches
- How to write everything from a fly-on-the-wall piece to a backgrounder
- 18. Comment, Intentional and Otherwise
- Comment in news stories
- The big I
- Political correctness
- Analysis
- Leaders or editorial opinion pieces
- Columnists
- Obituaries
- Reviews
- 19. How To Be A Great Reporter
- Hard work
- The application of intelligence
- Intellectual courage
- Meticulousness
- Consuming appetite for books
- A good knowledge of journalism's past
- Obsessive nature
- Reading for Journalists
- Index