Associated Press reporting handbook /
AP Associated Press reporting handbook Reporting handbook
Jerry Schwartz.
- New York : McGraw-Hill, c2002.
- ix, 219 p. ; 24 cm.
- Associated Press series .
Anatomy of a Story: Covering a Plane Crash -- What Is News? -- Ideas and How to Get Them -- Ideas II: Listening to America -- About Writing -- Profiles -- The Art of the Sit-Down Interview -- General Assignment or Specialization? -- Covering a Beat: The Courts -- Covering a Beat: Science and Medicine -- Covering a Beat: Television -- Covering a Beat: Politics -- Working in Washington -- Reporting Overseas I -- Reporting Overseas II -- Re-creating Reality: About Narrative Reconstructions -- Saving a Child -- Chasing a Fire -- The Tools of Investigative Work -- Investigations: A Mental Patient's Death -- Investigations: All the Pretty Horses -- Investigations: Doctors and Tobacco -- Using the Internet -- Changing Media and Media Careers.
Presents detailed advice from seasoned reporters on several aspects of the job, including finding ideas; writing; sit-down interviews; working overseas; narrative reconstructions; and covering the courts, science and medicine, television, and politics; and presents three cases of investigative reporting.