The nature of news -- Inside the news room -- Using a stylebook -- The inverted pyramid -- Interviewing -- Quotes and attribution -- Press releases -- Obituaries -- Speeches, press conferences and meetings -- Accidents, fires and disasters -- Crime and the courts -- Follows -- The importance of good writing -- Alternatives to the inverted pyramid -- Covering a beat -- Business and consumer news -- Sports -- Social science reporting techniques -- Investigative reporting -- Broadcast news -- Press law -- Ethics

1. Reporters and reporting