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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Preface | |
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| What Makes A Good Reporter? | |
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| Attitudes | |
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| Character | |
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| A great reporter | |
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| The Limitations of Journalism | |
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| Owners' priorities | |
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| The journalistic culture | |
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| Readers' values | |
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| What Is News? | |
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| What is news? | |
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| News values | |
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| News value factors | |
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| A sliding scale for stories | |
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| Where Do Good Stories Come From? | |
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| The habits of successful reporters | |
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| Non-obvious sources | |
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| News editors | |
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| Stories that good reporters avoid | |
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| Research | |
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| What you should be looking for | |
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| Where to get it | |
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| Researching online | |
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| Printed sources | |
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| Research as a foreign correspondent | |
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| Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You | |
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| Guidelines for dealing with any source | |
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| Official sources | |
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| Handling unauthorised sources | |
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| Unattributable sources 'off the record' | |
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| Getting too close to sources | |
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| Questioning | |
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| How to approach people | |
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| The most useful questions in journalism | |
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| Questioning uneasy sources | |
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| Questioning elusive, evasive and hostile sources | |
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| Questioning by email | |
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| Press conferences | |
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| Celebrity interviews | |
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| Reporting Numbers and Statistics | |
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| Questioning data | |
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| Averages | |
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| Distribution | |
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| Percentages | |
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| Per head | |
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| Surveys | |
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| Opinion polls | |
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| Correlation | |
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| Projections | |
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| Real versus apparent rise | |
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| Investigative Reporting | |
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| What is investigative reporting? | |
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| Productive areas to investigate | |
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| Investigative reporting skills | |
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| How to run investigative operations | |
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| How To Cover Major Incidents | |
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| How to make sure your coverage of a disaster doesn't turn into one | |
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| Death tolls | |
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| The death call | |
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| All reporters are tough, aren't they? | |
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| Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes | |
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| Mistakes | |
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| How should you respond to mistakes? | |
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| Great newspaper hoaxes | |
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| Ethics | |
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| General guidelines | |
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| Grey areas | |
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| Writing for Newspapers | |
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| Planning | |
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| Clarity | |
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| Fresh language | |
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| Honesty | |
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| Precision | |
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| Suitability | |
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| Efficiency | |
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| Revision | |
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| The joys of writing | |
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| Intros | |
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| How to write sharp intros | |
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| Hard news approach | |
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| Other approaches | |
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| A word about feature intros | |
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| Construction and Description | |
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| Construction guidelines | |
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| Analysing story structures | |
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| Payoffs | |
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| Attribution | |
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| Description | |
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| Handling Quotes | |
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| When do you use quotes? | |
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| Accuracy | |
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| Efficiency | |
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| Attributing quotes | |
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| Inventing quotes | |
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| Different Ways To Tell A Story | |
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| Different approaches | |
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| How to write everything from a fly-on-the-wall piece to a backgrounder | |
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| Comment, Intentional and Otherwise | |
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| Comment in news stories | |
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| The big I | |
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| Political correctness | |
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| Analysis | |
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| Leaders or editorial opinion pieces | |
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| Columnists | |
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| Obituaries | |
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| Reviews | |
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| How To Be A Great Reporter | |
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| Hard work | |
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| The application of intelligence | |
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| Intellectual courage | |
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| Meticulousness | |
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| Consuming appetite for books | |
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| A good knowledge of journalism's past | |
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| Obsessive nature | |
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| Reading for Journalists | |
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| Index | |