News writing/
George A. Hough
- 3rd ed.
- Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
- xxi, 484 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 217-218.
News and the news industry -- Gathering the news -- Writing the lead -- Style and the stylebook -- Writing the story -- Be clear, complete and accurate -- Writing the story II -- Editing, revising, rewriting -- Quotation -- Legal and ethical considerations -- Some hard-news stories -- Second-day stories and other organizing devices -- Stories about speeches: Leads -- Reporting the spoken word -- Writing larger stories -- Features -- Numbers in the news -- Appendix A: Editing marks -- Appendix B: Newspaper grammar and punctuation -- Appendix C: Basic guide to news style.