The fourth estate: Today's media -- Ingredients of news -- The rudiments: Qualities of good writing -- Summary leads -- Organizing a news story -- Developing a news story -- Quotations and attribution -- Special leads -- Features -- Gathering information: Interviewing -- Computer-assisted reporting and research -- By the numbers -- Basic assignments: Obituaries -- Speeches and press conferences -- Weather and disasters -- Broadcast writing -- Multimedia journalism -- News releases -- Beats: Multicultural reporting -- Local government and public meetings -- Police and fire -- Courts -- Sports -- Advanced assignments: In-depth and investigative reporting -- Business news and other specialties -- Beyond the writing: Law - Ethics and fairness: responsibility to society

1. Reporters and Reporting
2. Journalism -- Authorship
3. Mass Media -- Authorship
4. Report writing