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100 1 _aSheehan, Murray,
_d1887-1963
245 1 0 _aHints on news reporting
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _a[Little blue book no. 342]
490 1 _aTen cent pocket series no. 342
500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-04
508 _aCarol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Books project.)
520 _aHints on news reporting by Murray Sheehan is a practical journalism guide written in the early 20th century. It concisely teaches how to recognize, gather, and write news for newspapers, focusing on clear structure, engaging presentation, and newsroom craft. The book opens by defining news as what interests people and explains the straight news lead built on the essentials—who, what, where, when, and, when useful, why/how—delivered first and fast. It surveys what draws readers (personal impact, sports, hobbies, prominence, local ties, the unusual, children, animals) and shows how to feature the most interesting element at the start. Sheehan contrasts straight news with “feature” and human‑interest pieces, then drills style: concrete words, strong verbs, varied sentences, tight paragraphs, and unobtrusive craftsmanship. He details how to organize common assignments—fires, accidents, meetings, sports, trials, crime, interviews, society items, and obituaries—and covers follow‑ups and rewrites. Practical chapters explain preparing copy, house style, gathering scheduled and unexpected news via beats (police, fire, hospitals, courts, clubs), interviewing tactics, telephone use, and the importance of getting names right. He closes with usage tips, pitfalls to avoid, and an overriding mandate: accuracy first. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1922
653 _aReporters and reporting
700 1 _aHaldeman-Julius, E.
_q(Emanuel),
_d1888-1951
830 0 _a[Little blue book no. 342]
830 0 _aTen cent pocket series no. 342
856 4 _uhttps://books.google.com/books?id=63OWBrJusIwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22little+blue+book%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiz3oX-mtCLAxUXHNAFHTpPDfIQ6AF6BAgOEAM#v=onepage&q&f=false
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77396
999 _c118116
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