Advice to Newspaper Correspondents

First of all. do away utterly with the idea that writing a special dispatch, to be sent by telegraph to a paper 1,500 miles away, is essentially different from writing a story to be printed in your own city. There is practically no difference between the two kinds of work, and there is little difference between the methods of doing them, when they are done in the proper way. St. Louis people, of course, do not want all the details of an event in Boston that would interest Boston readers; bu...