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• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• 1. Journalism in an Age of Social Media
• Journalism and social media: the reality
• Building your brand
• Twitter as a news source
• Social media and public opinion
• How to survive being trolled
• Coronavirus, misinformation and social media
• Thinking time
• Filter bubbles
• 2. What Makes a Good Reporter?
• Attitudes
• Character
• Panel: How to impress editors
• Getting the right start
• 3. The Limitations of Journalism
• Owners’ priorities
• The journalistic culture
• Readers’ values
• Panel: Crime reporting
• 4. What is News?
• What is news?
• News values
• News value factors
• A sliding scale for stories
• Beauty and news values
• Fake news
• A word about good news
• 5. Where Do Good Stories Come From?
• The habits of successful reporters
• Getting out and about
• News editors
• Non-obvious sources
• Other productive areas
• Stories that good reporters avoid
• Panel: Humanitarian crises
• 6. Research
• What you should be looking for
• Where to get it
• Researching online
• Printed sources
• Research as a foreign correspondent
• Panel: Researching a feature
• 7. Handling Sources, Not Them Handling You
• Guidelines for dealing with any source
• Official sources
• Handling unauthorised sources
• Unattributable sources ‘off the record’
• 8. Questioning
• How to approach people
• The most useful questions in journalism
• Questioning uneasy sources
• Questioning elusive, evasive and hostile sources
• Questioning by email
• Press conferences
• Big name interviews
• Panel: Interviews that challenge the subject’s image
• 9. Reporting Numbers and Statistics
• Questioning data
• The uses and abuses of statistics
• Averages
• Distribution
• Percentages
• Per head
• Surveys
• Opinion polls
• Correlation
• Projections
• Real versus apparent rise
• Probability
• Phoney science
• 10. Investigative Reporting
• What is investigative reporting?
• Productive areas to investigate
• Investigative reporting skills
• Computer literacy
• How to run investigative operations
• Going undercover
• 11. How to Cover Major Incidents
• Case history: Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• How to make sure your coverage of a disaster doesn’t turn into one
• Death tolls
• The death call
• Professionalism under pressure
• Panel: Disaster reporting from multiple sources
• 12. Mistakes, Corrections and Hoaxes
• Mistakes
• How should you respond to mistakes?
• Great newspaper hoaxes
• 13. Ethics
• General guidelines
• Grey areas
• Privacy
• Paying for information or an interview
• Panel: A little ethical dilemma
• 14. Writing News and Features
• Planning
• Clarity
• Fresh language
• Honesty
• Precision
• Suitability
• Efficiency
• Fluency
• Revision
• Is writing for online different to writing for papers and magazines?
• The joys of writing
• Panel: The writing brain
• 15. Intros
• How to write sharp intros
• Hard news approach
• Other approaches
• A word about feature intros
• Panel: Intros and the value of detail
• 16. Construction and Description
• Construction guidelines
• Analysing story structures
• Payoffs
• Attribution
• Description
• Panel: An early lesson in description
• 17. Handling Quotes
• When do you use quotes?
• Accuracy
• Efficiency
• Attributing quotes
• Inventing quotes
• 18. Different Ways to Tell a Story
• Different approaches
• Colour pieces
• Backgrounders
• Analysis
• Vox pops
• Shooting video
• 19. Comment, Intentional and Otherwise
• Comment in news stories
• The big I
• Analysis
• Obituaries
• Leaders or editorial opinion pieces
• Columnists
• Reviews
• Panel: Travel writing for grown-ups
• Panel: Obituary news reports
• 20. How to Be a Great Reporter
• Hard work
• The application of intelligence
• Intellectual courage
• Meticulousness
• Consuming appetite for books
• A good knowledge of journalism’s past
• Obsessive nature
• Reading for Journalists
• Index