Journalists at work -- How to write news -- Working with the news -- News writing is clear writing -- Hits and errors for writers -- How to improve your writing -- Problems of news writing -- Writing obituaries -- Writing human interest stories -- Writing about disasters -- Sharpening the lead -- Writing under pressure -- Handling the story on rewrite -- Writing for wire services -- Writing for TV and radio -- The lives of a reporter -- Interviews, speeches and news conferences -- Sports reporting -- The press and the law -- Police reporting -- Covering the courts -- The ethics of journalists -- Attributing and interpreting the news -- Public opinion, polling and elections -- Budgets, taxes and local government -- The big story: Washington and the world -- The specialists -- Investigative reporting and campaigning

1. Journalism