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Title: Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence
A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of
Newspaper Writing

Author: Grant Milnor Hyde

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Language: English

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NEWSPAPER REPORTING
AND CORRESPONDENCE

A MANUAL FOR REPORTERS,
CORRESPONDENTS, AND STUDENTS
OF NEWSPAPER WRITING

BY

GRANT MILNOR HYDE, M.A.

INSTRUCTOR IN JOURNALISM IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

NEW YORK AND LONDON
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1912

COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO
MY MOTHER

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this book is to instruct the prospective newspaper
reporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper will
call upon him to write, and to help the young cub reporter and the
struggling correspondent past the perils of the copyreader's pencil by
telling them how to write clean copy that requires a minimum of editing.
It is not concerned with the _why_ of the newspaper business--the editor
may attend to that--but with the _how_ of the reporter's work. And an
ability to write is believed to be the reporter's chief asset. There is
no space in this book to dilate upon newspaper organization, the work of
the business office, the writing of advertisements, the principles of
editorial writing, or the how and why of newspaper policy and practice,
as it is. These things do not concern the reporter during the first few
months of his work, and he will learn them from experience when he needs
them. Until then, his usefulness depends solely upon his ability to get
news and to write it.

There are two phases of the work which every reporter must learn: ho