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| Journalism and Journalists | |
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| The Nature of News | |
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| Convergence in Journalism What News Is | |
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| News Emphasis in Different Media | |
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| Citizen Journalism | |
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| The Role of Journalism and the Challenges it Faces | |
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| The Public's View of the News Media | |
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| Principles of Journalism Today | |
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| Accuracy, Fairness and the Problem of Objectivity | |
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| "Just the Facts" | |
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| On the Job: A Career Crosses Media Lines | |
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| Accuracy | |
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| Fairness | |
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| Bias | |
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| Objectivity | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Redefining News: Citizen Journalism and Convergence | |
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| The Changing Face of Journalism Citizen Journalism | |
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| The Public Drives Change | |
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| How Important Is Verification? | |
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| Citizen Journalism: Here to Stay | |
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| The Coming of Web 2.0 | |
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| Forms of Citizen Journalism | |
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| Managing the Change | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Different News Rooms, Different Skills | |
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| Why Convergence? | |
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| On the Job: Persistence Pays Off | |
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| Traditional Media: Where Are They Headed? | |
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| On the Job: Editing Online News | |
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| Journalism Jobs | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Reporting Tools | |
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| Interviewing | |
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| Building Trust Preparing for the Interview | |
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| The News Story | |
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| On the Job: Getting the Interview | |
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| The Profile | |
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| The Investigative Piece | |
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| Gathering Information | |
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| Requesting an Interview | |
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| Broadcast Interviews | |
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| Telephone and E-Mail Interviews | |
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| Setting up the Interview | |
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| Preparing Questions | |
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| Researching Questions | |
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| Phrasing Questions | |
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| Open-Ended Questions | |
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| Closed-Ended Questions | |
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| Interview Approaches | |
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| Ensuring Accuracy | |
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| Taking Notes | |
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| Observing | |
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| Understanding What You Hear | |
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| Asking Follow-Up Questions | |
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| Pacing the Interview | |
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| Ending the Interview | |
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| What to Quote Directly | |
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| Unique Material | |
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| The Memorable Expression | |
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| Important Quotes by Important People | |
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| Quoting Accurately | |
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| Verification | |
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| Correcting Grammar in Quotations | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Gathering and Verifying Information | |
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| Acccurate Information: The Basis of A Good Story | |
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| The Discipline of Multiple Sources | |
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| The Discipline of Verification | |
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| Computerized Sources of Information | |
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| Your News Library: The Place to Start | |
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| On the Job: News Is Information | |
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| Search Engines | |
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| News Sites, Portals and Content Aggregators | |
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| Other Sites on the World Wide Web | |
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| Commercial Database Services | |
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| Government Databases | |
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| Special-Interest Databases | |
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| CD-ROMs and DVDs | |
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| Self-Constructed Databases | |
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| Traditional Sources of Information | |
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| The Newspaper Library | |
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| Other Traditional Sources | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Reporting with Numbers | |
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| Proportion | |
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| Percentages and Percentage Change | |
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| Averages and Medians | |
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| Rates | |
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| Interest and Compounding | |
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| Inflation | |
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| Taxes | |
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| Sales Taxes | |
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| Income Taxes | |
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| Property Taxes | |
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| Budgets | |
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| On the Job: Working with Numbers | |
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| Budget Basics | |
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| Finding Stories in Budget Changes, Trends and Comparisons | |
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| Financial Reports | |
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| Making Sense of Numbers from Polls | |
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| Mixing Numbers and Words | |
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| Currency Exchange | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Storytelling | |
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| The Inverted Pyramid | |
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| Importance of the Inverted Pyramid Story Finding the Lead | |
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| Writing the Inverted Pyramid Lead | |
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| Emphasizing Different News Values | |
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| What? So What? and What's Next? | |
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| Variations on the Inverted Pyramid Lead | |
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| The "You" Lead | |
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| The Immediate-Identification Lead | |
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| The Delayed-Identification Lead | |
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| On the Job: Inverted Pyramid-A Basic Tool | |
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| The Summary Lead | |
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| The Multiple-Element | |
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| Leads with Flair | |
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| Story Organization | |
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| The One-Subject Story | |
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| The Multiple-Element Story | |
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| Checking Accuracy and Attributions | |
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| Ensuring Accuracy | |
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| How and When to Attribute | |
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| Primary Sources | |
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| Witnesses | |
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| Opinions | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Beyond the Inverted Pyramid | |
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| The Techniques of Narration | |
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| Vivid Scenes | |
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| Dialogue | |
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| Foreshadowing | |
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| Anecdotes | |
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| The News Narrative Structure | |
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| The Focus Structure | |
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| Writing the Lead | |
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| On the Job: Tips for Writing | |
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| Finishing the Set-up | |
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| Add the Transition and the Nut Paragraph | |
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| Add Foreshadowing | |
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| Add the "So What" | |
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| Add the "To Be Sure" | |
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| Writing the Body | |
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| Writing the Ending | |
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| Writing for Blogs | |
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| Service Journalism | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Covering and Writing News | |
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| Speeches, News Conferences and Meetings | |
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| Your Preparation | |
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| Preparing for the Speech Story | |
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| Preparing for the News Conference Story | |
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| Preparing for the Meeting Story | |
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| Covering the Story | |
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| Be Thorough and Accurate | |
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| Be Thoughtful and Observant | |
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| Writing the Story | |
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| Writing the Speech Story | |
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| Writing the News Conference Story | |
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| On the Job: Speeches, News Conferences and Meetings | |
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| Writing the Meeting Story | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Other Types of Basic Stories | |
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| The Value of Experience your Preparation | |
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| Preparing for an Obituary or Life Story | |
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| Preparing for a Crime Story | |
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| Preparing for Accident and Fire Stories | |
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| Preparing for a Court Story | |
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| Writing an Obituary or Life Story | |
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| Creating a Lead | |
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| Building the Story | |
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| On the Job: Focus on a Dream | |
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| Choosing Your Words | |
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| Giving Cause of Death | |
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| Handling Embarrassing Information | |
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| Writing A Crime Story | |
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| The Chronologically Ordered Story | |
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| On the Job: Lessons of the Police Beat | |
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| The Sidebar Story | |
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| The Inverted Pyramid Account | |
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| Writing Accident and Fire Stories | |
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| The Scene of an Accident | |
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| The First Story | |
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| The Follow-up Story | |
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| The Scene of a Fire | |
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| Getting Information | |
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| Doing Follow-up Interviews | |
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| Writing A Court Story | |
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| Avoiding Libelous Statements | |
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| Continuing Coverage of the Prosecution | |
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| A Typical First Story | |
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| Follow-up Story: First Court Appearance | |
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| Follow-up Story: Preliminary Hearing | |
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| Follow-up Story: Arraignment | |
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| Follow-up Story: First Day of the Trial | |
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| Follow-up Story: Trial Testimony | |
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| Follow-up Story: Verdict | |
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| The Free-Press/Fair-Trial Controversy | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Suggested Web Sites | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Beat Reporting | |
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| Beat Reporting in the 21st Century Principles for Reporters on A Beat | |
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| Be Prepared | |
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| Reading for Background | |
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| Identifying Sources | |
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| Establishing Relationships with Sources | |
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| Be Alert | |
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| Be Persistent | |
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| Insisting on a Responsive Answer | |
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| Following Up Slow Developments | |
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| Be There | |
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| Maintaining Your Connections with Sources | |
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| Ensuring Accuracy | |
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| On the Job: Newer, Faster, Better | |
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| Be Wary | |
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| Converged Coverage | |
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| Covering the Most Important | |
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| Local Beats | |
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| Information Is Power | |
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| The Budget Is the Blueprint | |
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| Distributing Power and Money Is Politics | |
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| City and County Government | |
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| Subordinate Administrators | |
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| Council Members | |
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| Pressure Groups | |
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| Public Citizens | |
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| Opponents | |
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| Education | |
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| The Schools | |
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| Colleges and Universities | |
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| The Police Beat | |
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| The Courts | |
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| Court Records | |
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| Human Sources | |
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| Lawyers | |
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| Judges | |
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| Other Court Functionaries | |
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| The Environment, Science and Medicine | |
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| Learning the Beat | |
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| Finding Stories | |
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| Dealing with Special Issues | |
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| Sports | |
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| Looking Beyond the Clich�©s | |