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Process of Writing News
Process of Writing News, <i>The Process of Writing News
</i> Brian Richardson, <i>Washington</i> <i>and Lee University</i> 
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  • Process of Writing News
  • Written by author Brian Richardson
  • Published by Allyn & Bacon, Inc., July 2006
  • The Process of Writing News Brian Richardson, Washington and Lee University The Process of Writing News is a concise text for beginning college-level journalism students, taking an "impact, elements, and word
  • Using examples and exercises, The Process of Writing News takes an “impact, elements, and words” approach to demystify reporting and writing for beginners. This is a concise book that approaches writing as a process, using a pedagogy that has
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Authors

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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