Part 3 — INDEX
Reading edition
Abbreviations,
269
Accidents,
149
,
153
Accuracy in news,
26
,
57
,
67
,
74
,
84
,
116
,
128
,
141
,
146
Adaptability,
7
Addresses,
54
,
135
"Add" stories,
253
Advance copies of speeches,
54
Advance stories,
54
,
193
Advertisement, persons seeking,
47
Advertising manager,
21
Agreement of pronouns,
100
Alone
,
108
Ambiguous pronouns,
100
Anger,
46
Appleton Post
, quoted,
59
,
77
Apostrophe,
266
Arrest sheets,
36
Articles, beginning stories with,
70
Assignments,
42
Associated Press, quoted,
237
Atlanta Constitution
, quoted,
190
Automobile races,
189
Autoplate,
16
Bank,
14
Banks in headlines,
281
Banquets,
143
Baseball,
167
Basket-ball,
176
Beats:
news runs,
39
;
scoops,
40
Beginnings of stories,
68
Beginning work,
5
Billiards,
190
Bing-bing-bing style,
93
Blotter, police,
34
Body of the story,
84
Boston Transcript
, quoted,
205
Boxed summaries,
76
Boxing matches,
185
Bryan, W. J.,
131
Bulldog edition,
5
Business department,
20
Business manager,
20
Capitalization,
256
Cards, calling,
42
,
45
Cartoonist,
11
Cashier,
22
Charity benefits,
205
Chase,
16
Chicago American
, quoted,
93
Chicago Herald
, quoted,
140
Chicago Tribune
, quoted,
60
,
192
,
196
,
233
,
301
Children, stories about,
30
,
151
Circulation manager,
20
City editor,
5
,
6
,
68
,
95
City maps,
43
City room,
3
Clearness,
74
,
90
,
97
,
106
,
117
Climactic order,
61
,
64
Clippings,
253
Closeness of events,
29
Clubs,
205
,
209
Coherence,
90
,
109
,
129
,
141
,
218
Colon,
259
Comma,
260
Complex order in stories,
63
Composing room,
13
Compositors,
13
Condensation,
95
,
223
Conjunctions,
104
,
107
Contests,
30
Conventions,
32
,
143
Conversation,
129
Coördination of clauses,
104
Copy,
294
Copy cutter,
13
Copy distributor,
13
Copy holder,
16
Copy readers,
5
Corrected copy,
275
Corrected proof,
276
Corrections in copy,
254
Correlative conjunctions,
107
Correspondence stories,
235
Correspondent,
235
Courtesy,
46
Courts,
144
Crime,
149
,
160
Cuts,
253
Dana, Charles A.,
116
Dances,
204
Dark runs,
40
Dash,
263
Davis, R. H., quoted,
48
Dead, lists of,
150
Deaths,
157
Decisions, court,
145
Delicacy of expression,
113
Des Moines Register
, quoted,
66
Dinners,
202
Dispatches, filing,
239
Dress,
46
Dullness in stories,
84
Editor:
city,
6
;
exchange,
9
;
financial,
10
;
literary,
10
;
managing,
11
;
market,
10
;
news,
7
;
society,
6
,
10
;
state,
8
;
telegraph,
8
Editorializing,
87
,
191
Editorial policies,
87
Editorial rooms,
5
Editorials, purpose of,
87
Editorial writers,
11
Editor-in-chief,
12
Elegance,
120
Ellipsis,
106
Emphasis,
93
,
97
,
110
End-mark in copy,
254
Engagements, announcements,
200
,
210
Exaggeration,
86
,
146
Exchange editor,
9
Exercises,
285
Extremes in news,
29
Fake stories,
56
Falsehood, detecting,
51
Feature stories,
224
Features, playing up,
69
,
127
Figures,
271
Figures of speech,
119
Filing news dispatches,
239
Filing queries,
240
Financial editor,
10
Fires,
149
Flaubert, Gustave, quoted,
116
Following up news,
212
Follow stories,
212
Football,
171
,
192
Force,
93
,
97
,
110
,
119
Forms,
16
Fudge,
18
Funerals,
157
Galley proof,
15
Golf,
179
Government publications,
144
Grammar,
99
Helplessness, value in news,
30
Heroism, acts of,
150
Holiday stories,
143
Holmes, George R., quoted,
77
Human interest stories,
224
Humorous stories,
146
,
151
Hyphen,
267
Illustrations,
253
Inaccuracy in news,
26
,
84
Indianapolis News
, quoted,
156
Infinitives,
101
Injured, lists of,
150
Inserts in copy,
252
Instructions from city editor,
68
,
95
Instructions to correspondents,
244
Interest in news,
27
,
58
,
74
Interviewing,
45
Interviews:
by telephone,
42
;
making men talk,
48
;
numbers of,
135
;
questions in,
47
,
50
;
requirements for,
45
;
writing up,
125
Kansas City Star
, quoted,
62
,
312
Killed, lists of,
150
Labor reporter,
6
Lardner, R. W., quoted,
192
Law of libel,
85
,
162
Leads:
accident,
149
,
153
;
accuracy in,
74
;
clearness in,
74
;
construction,
70
;
contents of,
69
;
crime,
160
;
deaths,
157
;
feature stories,
230
;
fires,
149
;
follow-ups,
213
;
form of,
72
;
informal,
78
;
interest in,
74
;
interviews,
126
;
kinds,
68
;
rewrites,
219
;
speeches,
135
;
sports,
165
;
summarizing,
69
,
138
;
suspense in,
78
,
81
;
verse in,
80
Lectures,
54
Legal decisions,
144
Libel, law of,
85
,
162
Librarian,
10
Linotype machine,
13
Lists of dead and injured,
150
Literary editor,
10
Life lost,
150
Localization of news,
29
,
127
,
218
Local news,
238
Longhand copy,
250
Los Angeles Times
, quoted,
203
,
204
Luncheons,
202
Magazine articles,
144
Managing editor,
11
Mannerisms,
130
,
143
Maps, city,
43
Margins in copy,
250
Marine reporter,
6
Market editor,
10
Marks for correcting copy,
273
Marriages,
201
,
210
Matrix,
16
Mechanical department,
13
Memory, need of,
49
Milwaukee Journal
,
15
,
189
Milwaukee Sentinel
, quoted,
80
Minneapolis Tribune
, quoted,
64
Morgue,
9
Motives, seeking,
51
Murders,
149
Names, need of accuracy,
53
Nearness of events,
29
Nevin, J. E., quoted,
131
-
134
News:
accuracy in,
26
;
biased,
56
;
defined,
26
;
essentials of,
25
;
following up,
212
;
getting into print,
13
;
nose for,
25
;
runs,
39
;
sources,
34
,
159
,
191
,
211
,
230
;
staff,
5
;
suppression of,
41
;
timeliness in,
28
;
values, need of knowing,
25
News editor,
7
Newspaper organization,
3
New York Herald
, quoted,
81
,
155
,
159
New York Sun
,
116
,
201
,
204
,
225
New York Times
, quoted,
81
,
168
,
182
,
185
,
205
New York Tribune
, quoted,
176
New York World
, quoted,
154
,
171
,
194
,
214
Nose for news,
25
Note-book in reporting,
49
Note-taking,
49
Numbers,
271
Obituaries,
157
Office, city,
3
,
43
Omaha News
, quoted,
131
-
134
O'Malley, F. W., quoted,
225
Only
,
108
Organization of a newspaper,
3
Organization of stories,
57
Ownership, influence on news,
89
Pagination,
252
Paragraph, the,
97
Paragraph indention,
251
Paragraph marks in copy,
251
Parenthetic expressions,
108
Parentheses,
264
Participles,
102
Pathos in news stories,
31
,
151
Period,
259
Personal interests in news,
32
Personals,
206
Philadelphia Public Ledger
, quoted
177
,
201
Photographers,
11
Photographs,
54
Pitkin, W. B., quoted,
27
Places, well known, in news,
31
Plate, stereotyping,
16
Police:
as news gatherers,
34
;
blotter,
34
;
bulletin board,
35
;
headquarters,
34
;
news,
34
;
reporter,
39
Policies, newspaper,
87
Political news,
89
Presses, printing,
17
Press room,
17
Printing, speed in,
18
Printing presses,
17
Prominent persons,
31
,
51
,
218
Pronouns,
91
,
100
Proof:
correcting,
16
;
specimen sheet,
276
;
galley,
15
;
marks used in correcting,
277
Proof-readers,
15
Proof-readers' marks,
277
Proportion,
111
,
129
Punctuation,
256
Queries,
240
Question leads,
79
Questions in interviewing,
47
,
50
,
127
Quotation-marks,
264
Quotations:
in leads,
80
;
verbatim,
136
,
142
,
264
Receptions,
203
Record-breaking events,
30
Relation words,
91
Release stories,
54
Repetition,
91
,
112
Reporters:
duties,
6
;
getting news,
42
,
127
;
requirements of,
25
;
suppressing news,
41
Rewrite man,
219
Rewrite stories,
212
,
218
Robberies,
149
,
162
Rumors,
26
,
153
Runs, news,
39
Scoops,
40
Semicolon,
260
Sentences,
72
,
95
,
99
Sermons,
54
,
135
Sheets,
36
Shorthand,
49
Slang,
120
,
164
Slips,
35
Slugging a story,
13
Slugs,
14
Society,
199
Society editor,
6
,
10
,
199
Sources for news,
34
,
159
,
191
,
211
,
230
,
238
Space order in stories,
60
Speeches,
54
,
135
Speed devices,
18
Speed, value in reporting,
57
Spencer, Herbert,
58
Split infinitive,
101
Sporting editor,
8
Sports,
164
,
243
State editor,
8
Stereotyping process,
16
Stories:
correspondence,
235
;
getting,
42
,
127
,
159
,
191
,
211
,
230
,
238
;
starting for,
42
String, correspondent's,
245
Style book,
249
Subjects, shifted,
109
Subordination of clauses,
104
Suicides,
149
Summaries, boxed,
76
Suppression of news,
41
,
48
Suspensive leads,
78
,
81
Takes,
13
,
15
,
251
Teas,
202
Technical news stories,
144
Telegraph copy,
8
,
239
Telegraph editor,
8
Telegraph news,
239
,
244
Telephone, use of,
42
,
239
Tennis,
182
Terminology,
278
Testimony, reporting,
145
Timeliness,
28
Time order in stories,
59
Tone,
82
,
93
Track meets,
177
Trials,
144
Trite phrases,
119
Typewriter,
250
Underscoring,
253
Under-statement, value of,
87
Unity in sentences,
110
Unity of impression,
82
,
93
,
232
Unusual, the, value in news,
30
Vagueness of phrasing,
93
Verbs,
101
,
103
Verse in leads,
80
Washington Post
, quoted,
202
,
207
Weather stories,
154
Weddings,
201
Witnesses, statements from,
76
,
145
Women's clubs,
205
,
209
Words,
116
Writing paper,
250