Types of News Writing

by Willars Grosvenor Bleyer

Overview

From the PREFACE.

This book has been prepared with the purpose of furnishing students of journalism and young reporters with a large collection of typical news stories. For college classes it may be used as a textbook. For newspaper workers it is offered as a handbook to which they may turn, in a particular case, to find out what news to get, where to get it, and how to present it effectively. Every young writer on a newspaper is called upon to do kinds of reporting in which he lacks experience. If, with the aid of an index, he can turn readily to several instances where more experienced writers have solved problems like his own, he will undertake his new task with a clearer idea of what to do and how to do it.

For systematic instruction in news writing it is desirable that students have in convenient form representative stories for study and analysis. Newspapers, it might be thought, would furnish this material, but experience has shown that it is often difficult to find, in current issues of newspapers, examples of the particular kind of story under consideration, and it is likewise difficult to supply every student in a large class with a copy of the issue that happens to contain the desired example.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663536068
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	07/18/2020
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Willard Grosvener Bleyer (1873 - 1935) professor, author, b. Milwaukee. He graduated from the Univ. of Wisconsin (B A., 1896; M.A., 1898; Ph.D., 1904). He was made instructor of English in 1904 and offered a course in journalism the following year. In 1906 he outlined a four-year journalism course, and in 1927 a School of Journalism was founded at the university with Bleyer as its head. He was one of the organizers of the American Association of Teachers in Journalism, chairman of the National Council on Education for Journalism (1923-1935), and chairman of the National Council on Research in journalism (1924-1929). He contributed to the literature of journalism by writing Newspaper Writing and Editing (1913), Types of News Writing (1916), and Main Currents in the History of American Journalism (1927), and he edited The Profession of Journalism (1918). M. Curti and V. Carstensen, Univ. of Wis. (2 vols., Madison, 1949); Dict. Amer. Biog.; Milwaukee Journal, Oct. 31, 1935; Who's Who in Amer., 17 (1932).