Newspaper Editing A Manual For Editors Copyreaders And Students Of Newspaper Desk Work

Much has happened in the newspaper profession and in the schools of journalism since this book was first published ten years ago. The newspapers have covered a World War and war periods have always brought the greatest changes in American newspapers have wrestled with doubled costs of production, reduced staffs, much merging, curtailed income, and are now deep in the perplexities of reconstruction. Meanwhile schools and courses in journalism have greatly increased in number, enrolment, and branches of instruction. When the book was presented in 1915, it was the first textbook entirely devoted to the problems and technique of newspaper desk work. It has, therefore, been widely used in classes in copyreading, headline writing, and make-up, as well as in newspaper offices. Its contents have been put to a severe test, and some have been found wanting. The author himself, in using it year after year in class, filled many page margins with suggestions for improvement. Hence, in preparation for its tenth anniversary, it is well that the book should receive a thorough overhauling to bring it up to date, to put in some things omitted before, to make it more usable and teachable. Its general structure has not been changed. Most of the alterations are in the chapters on copyreading, headline writing, make-up, and type, but many additions have been made in other chapters. Class exercises have now been added to each chapter to present in brief much of the technique of teaching, as it has developed in the larger schools. They are intended to be suggestive, not only to the teacher, but to independent students and young newspaper workers. A bibliography has been added to suggest further reading. In the schools of journalism, the methods of teaching copyreading have developed during the period since first publication probably more than any other branch and have been somewhat standardized.

Excerpt from Newspaper Editing: A Manual for Editors, Copyreaders, Readers, and Students of Newspaper Desk Work This book has been prepared as a manual for newspaper desk men and a textbook for editing classes in the schools of journalism. Although a number of good handbooks on journalism have appeared in the past few years, the writers of such books have been so interested ill the needs of the reporter that they have rather generally neglected the copyreader - a man of even greater responsibilities. It is to fill this need a need that has been impressed upon the author by five years experience as teacher of journalism that this book was written. And, just as in his "Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence," published three years ago, the author hast not tried to cover the entire field of newspaper work, but has confined himself to the particular branch. The intent of the book is not only to present the tools and methods of the copy editor but to show, as well, the interesting possibilities in his work. Too many newspaper men, especially reporters, regard desk work as unimaginative drudgery and feel that to be placed "on the desk" is to be pushed back out of the firing line. To counteract such a feeling is sufficient reason for the writing of a book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1915 Edition.

Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 22 : Nos. 1-131 (Issued April, 1925 - April, 1926)

A Manual for Newspaper Writing.