McKane, Anna

News Writing / - London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE Publications, 2006. - x, 196 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-164) and index.

What Makes News?
Gathering the News
The Intro
Structure Part 1: The Inverted Pyramid
Structure Part 2: The News Story as Answers
Structure Part 3: Avoiding Narrative
Other News Writing Models for Intros
Accuracy
The Language of News 1: Choosing the Right Words
The Language of News 2: Sentence Structure, Brevity and Clarity
The Language of News 3: Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
Subbing and Presentation: The View from the Bridge
by Christopher Mc Kane, Executive Editor, The Times
Other Models Used on News Pages
Epilogue
Further Reading

9781412919142 (pb)


Journalism--Authorship

070.43 / MCK/N