o home or individual study. Although they
give very little practice in news gathering, they enable the student to
gain practice in the writing of news--in accordance with the purpose of
this book. The reporter who is studying the business in a newspaper
office may use them to advantage in connection with his regular work.

EXERCISES FOR THE FIRST CHAPTER

1. Collect clippings of representative news stories, printed in
the daily papers, to be used as models.

2. Keep a book of tips of expected news in your town or city.

3. Study news stories in your local paper and try to determine from
what source the original news tip came. Try to discover from the
story the routine of news gathering which furnished the facts.

4. In the same stories try to determine what persons were
interviewed; frame the questions that the reporter might have
asked to secure the facts. The instructor may impersonate
various persons in a given news story and have the students
interview him for the facts; this is to assist the student in
learning to keep the point of view and to keep him from asking
ridiculous questions.

5. Try to discover what stories in any newspaper are the result of
actual reporting by staff reporters--point out where the others
come from.

6. Notice the date line on stories that come from the outside, and
learn its form.

EXERCISES FOR THE SECOND CHAPTER

1. Watch for local stories that seem to be worth sending out;
determine what element in them makes them worth sending out;
calculate how far from their source they would be worth
printing.

2. Study the news value of stories that are printed in the local
papers; determine why they were printed. Look for the same
things in stories with date lines in the local papers.

3. Determine what class of readers any given news story would
interest.

4. Notice the time element (timeliness) in newspaper stories.

5. Try to determine the radius of your local paper's personal news
sources: how near the printing office one must live to be worth
personal mention.

6. Watch for local stories whose news value depends upon the death
element, upon a prominent name, a significant loss of property,
mere unusualness, human interest, or personal app