Preface 1: Journalism Today 2: Selecting and Reporting the News 3: Newswriting Style 4: The Language of the News 5: Libel, Privacy and Newsgathering Issues 6: Ethics 7: Basic News Leads 8: Alternative Leads 9: The Body of a News Story. 10: Quotations and Attribution 11: Interviewing 12: Feature Stories 13: Writing for Broadcast News 14: Visual Journalism15: Speeches and Meetings 16: Brights, Follow-Ups, Roundups, Sidebars and Obituaries17: Public Affairs Reporting18: Introduction to Investigative Reporting 19: Journalism and Public Relations Appendix A: City Directory Appendix B: Summary of AP StyleAppendix C: Rules for Forming PossessivesCreditsIndex

"News organizations in other countries have not experienced the same decline in public trust. A study of public attitudes toward news media in 40 countries found that trust was lowest in the United States. Since Trump left the presidency, other politicians have adopted his tactic of attacking news reporters and their organizations in highly emotional terms. A Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin criticized the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel for publishing a story about his donations of money to anti-abortion groups, churches and other organizations. The candidate, Tim Michels, said after publication of the article: "I believe people should just, just be ready to get out on the streets with pitchforks and torches with how the liberal media has become. People need to decide 'Am I going to put up with this? Am I going to tolerate this, taking somebody that gives money to churches or cancer research and use that as a hit piece in the media?' I'm appalled. It's disgusting." The executive editor of the Journal-Sentinel, George Stanley, defended the report and said it ran the same day as a piece about how much the Democratic candidate for U.S. senator was spending on security"--