News Writing Book

Foreword     vii
Preface     ix
Acknowledgements     xi
What Makes News?     1
Gathering the News     16
The Intro     27
Structure Part 1: The Inverted Pyramid     46
Structure Part 2: The News Story as Answers     57
Structure Part 3: Avoiding Narrative     68
Other News Writing Models for Intros     77
Accuracy     85
The Language of News 1: Choosing the Right Words     94
The Language of News 2: Sentence Structure, Brevity and Clarity     105
The Language of News 3: Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation     113
Subbing and Presentation: The View from the Bridge   Christopher McKane     141
Other Models Used on News Pages     148
Epilogue     162
Further Reading     163
Glossary     165
News Stories in the National Press July 18/19 2005     171
Index     195