Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence is a manual for reporters, correspondents and students of newspaper writing by Grant Milnor Hyde. The introduction says the purpose of the 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.

The introduction also says the book is meant 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. The finished story that readers see in the next morning's paper is described as the composite story of the fire chief, the owner, the tenant and the man who discovered the fire. The text says free beginnings are quite effective when properly handled but the novice must use them with fear and trembling. An appendix headed NEWS STORIES TO BE CORRECTED gives stories prepared to illustrate some of the most usual mistakes in newspaper writing.