Associated Press reporting handbook / Jerry Schwartz.
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TextSeries: Associated Press seriesPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.Description: ix, 219 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0071372172 (alk. paper)
- AP Associated Press reporting handbook
- reporting handbook
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CONTENTS: Anatomy of a Story: Covering a Plane Crash -- What Is News? -- Ideas and How to Get Them -- Ideas II: Listening to America -- About Writing -- Profiles -- The Art of the Sit-Down Interview -- General Assignment or Specialization? -- Covering a Beat: The Courts -- Covering a Beat: Science and Medicine -- Covering a Beat: Television -- Covering a Beat: Politics -- Working in Washington -- Reporting Overseas I -- Reporting Overseas II -- Re-creating Reality: About Narrative Reconstructions -- Saving a Child -- Chasing a Fire -- The Tools of Investigative Work -- Investigations: A Mental Patient's Death -- Investigations: All the Pretty Horses -- Investigations: Doctors and Tobacco -- Using the Internet -- Changing Media and Media Careers.
Presents detailed advice from seasoned reporters on several aspects of the job, including finding ideas; writing; sit- down interviews; working overseas; narrative reconstructions; and covering the courts, science and medicine, television, and politics; and presents three cases of investigative reporting.