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Now in its Fourth Edition, this classic textbook has grown up alongside the newspaper industry. Today, as ever, it provides students of newspaper journalism with a toolkit for gathering news and filling ever-increasing space with first-rate copy for print and online. Informed by over half a century’s professional experience and fully revised to give a nuanced account of the skills required in an online environment, this book is an essential companion for your journalism degree and beyond.
Pursuing News: What do I Need to Know?
Pursuing News: What do I Need to Know?
It shocked me that so many journalists had allowed the story to be written for them. The West Midlands Police and CPS allegations were taken at face value.
Having selected or been assigned to a news story, a reporter needs to ask ‘What do I need to know?’ Essentially, I need to know what the story is, with enough detail and explanation for readers to understand it and see it in its context.
In the quote above, Kevin Sutcliffe, deputy head of news and current affairs at Channel 4, was complaining that journalists had too readily accepted imprecise allegations from police and the Crown Prosecution Service against Undercover ...
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