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Preface
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To the student
Nowhere-ville
Learning the tools
To the instructor
Acknowledgments
1. Reporters, Communities and Working in a Converged World
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A paradox
The plan
A young reporter
The community
The audience
Convergence
A journalist’s responsibilities
Core values
News matters
Journalism ethics
Objectivity
Framing
Your job
Getting it right
Strategies
Exercise one: Same story, different audiences
2. Using Tools with Skill
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The task
Exercise two: Grammar, spelling, punctuation
The questions
The answers
Strategies
3. What Is News?
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News defined
Mass audiences
Elements of news
Professional responsibilities and duties
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 3a: A warm-up
Exercise 3b: What’s news today?
4. Turning Information into News
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Finding information
Listening for the audience
The process of making news
Impact, elements, words
Characteristics of audiences and stories
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Four: What’s this story about?
5. Ledes
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What is a lede?
Sixty percent of the work
Try, try again
Impact, elements, words
Writing a lede
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Five: Ledes
6. How to Write Good: Writing for Print
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The go/no-go decision
Essential and discretionary stories
What happened next? The logic of narratives
Building blocks
Remembering the mantra: Impact, elements, words
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Six: Brief stories
7. Story Forms and Organizing Stories
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The choices: Inverted pyramid, hourglass, Wall Street Journal, chronological . . .
Using your knife and fork: Form follows function
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Seven: Building a story using story forms
8. Writing for Broadcast
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RDR: The 30-second reader
The process
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Eight: A RDR
9. Writing for the Web
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Characteristics of the Web
Ledes and blurbs
The process
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise Nine: Web blurbs
10. Using Quotes
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The work that quotes do
Types of quotations
Gather many, use few
Show them off
Attribution
Use “said”
Ethics: Altering and “cleaning up” quotes
Bad grammar, profanity and obscenity
Strategies
Exercise 10: Choosing quotes
11. Sources
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Types of sources
Documentary sources
Human sources
Who and what can we rely on?
Levels of observation
Being careful, and teaching your audience to be careful
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 11: Plane crash
12. Facts and Allegations
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News fact, news truth
The importance of context
Be fair: Facts first, words second
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 12: City Council meeting
13. Interviewing
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Whose advantage?
What kind of interviewer will you be?
What kind of questions will you ask?
How will you go about your job?
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 13: Interviewing Meagan LeBlanc
14. Speeches
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Why cover speeches?
Putting your audience there, or not
Your judgment, or the speaker’s?
Finding the impact
The body of the story
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 14: Speech
15. Computer-Assisted Reporting
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New technologies, new reporting tools
Green eyeshades and chi squares
Desktop computers and databases
Trust your reporting skills
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 15: Analyzing Valleydale’s budget
16. Police and Emergency Services
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Where’s the impact?
Don’t victimize twice
Dealing with police and fire and rescue workers
Dealing with hospital workers
Remember levels of observation
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 16a: Police report
Exercise 16b: Traffic accident
17. Covering Local Government Meetings
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Who cares about local government?
Local government structure
Local government functions
Who are those other people?
Stories from local government
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 17: Covering a meeting
18. News Conferences
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How do news conferences serve your audience?
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 18: Chief Honeycutt’s news conference
19. Courts, Trials, Indictments, Lawsuits
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A primer on the courts
Civil cases differ from criminal cases
The visual story
The charging process for criminal cases
Writing about court cases
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 19a: Indictment
Exercise 19b: Lawsuit
20. Working from Background and Other Levels of Attribution
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When journalists won’t identify sources
Levels of attribution
Negotiating attribution with sources
Keeping sources unidentified in broadcast media
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 20a: The finance committee’s report
Exercise 20b: The city manager’s news conference
Exercise 20c: Levels of attribution
21. Bringing Multiple Elements Together
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How did we get here? Where do we go next?
Is the audience keeping up?
Ethics
Strategies
Exercise 21: Wise, Bullard and Prentice
Exercise 22: Finishing the story
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