Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Journalism and journalists. The nature of news
  • The state of the news industry
  • pt. 2. Reporting tools. Gathering and verifying information
  • Interviewing
  • Quotations and attributions
  • Using news releases as sources
  • Reporting with numbers
  • pt. 3. Storytelling. The inverted pyramid
  • Writing to be read
  • Alternatives to the inverted pyramid
  • pt. 4. Writing for specific media. Writing for digital media
  • Writing news for radio and television
  • pt. 5. Basic stories. Covering a beat
  • Speeches, news conferences and meetings
  • Other types of local stories
  • Business and consumer news
  • pt. 6. Specialized techniques. Investigative and data-driven reporting
  • Public relations
  • pt. 7. Rights and responsibilites. Media law
  • Ethics
  • g Appendix 1. 20 common errors of grammar and punctuation
  • Appendix 2. Wire-service style summary
  • Appendix 3. Society of professional journalists' code of ethics.