Newspapers Handbook

The new edition of this popular text provides a comprehensive guide to the job of the newspaper reporter. Richard Keeble offers advice on a range of different types of newspaper writing, looks at how newspapers cover events and shows how reporting styles can differ in mainstream and non-mainstream newspapers and explores the theoretical, moral and political dilemmas of a journalist's job. Newly updated chapters from Henry Clother and John Turner explore the specialisms of court and local government reporting. The Newspapers Handbook includes: * Interviews with journalists about their working practices * Working extracts throughout from a wide range of newspaper genres - national broadsheets, tabloids, local papers and the alternative press * Advice on training opportunities and a guide to journalism courses * An updated glossary of specialist terms * A guide to the internet as a resource for journalists