Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART ONE The Elements of Reporting; CHAPTER 1 Connecting the DOT; CHAPTER 2 Defining News; CHAPTER 3 Digging into Documents; CHAPTER 4 The Eyes Have It; CHAPTER 5 Talking Your Way to the Story; PART TWO From Principle to Practice; CHAPTER 6 Getting Started; CHAPTER 7 The Journalistic Core; CHAPTER 8 Specialized Topics; CHAPTER 9 Specialized Forms; CHAPTER 10 Enterprise Reporting; PART THREE 21st Century News Reporting; CHAPTER 11 Technology; CHAPTER 12 Public Relations and News Management
Summary
News gathering is a large, complicated and often messy task that has traditionally been viewed by journalists as irretrievably idiosyncratic, best learned through trial and error. Advanced Reporting takes the opposite approach, focusing on reporting as a process of triangulation based on three essential activities: analyzing documents, making observations and conducting interviews. In this readable book, veteran journalism professor Miles Maguire shows how the best reporters use these three tools in a way that allows them to cross-check and authenticate facts, to reduce or eliminate
