Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What News Is and Why It's Important -- Chapter 2: Your Freedoms and How They Are Protected -- Chapter 3: How to Gather Information -- Chapter 4: How to Write the Basic News Story -- Chapter 5: What You Need to Know about Writing News -- Chapter 6: Ethics, Objectivity, and Reporter Rights -- Chapter 7: How to Write for the Internet -- Chapter 8: How to Write for Broadcast: Radio and Television -- Chapter 9: How and Why to Edit Copy -- Chapter 10: How to Cover Speeches -- Chapter 11: How to Cover Meetings -- Chapter 12: How to Cover Education -- Chapter 13: How to Cover Universities -- Chapter 14: How to Cover Government, Taxes, and Political Campaigns -- Chapter 15: How to Cover Business, Industry, and Labor -- Chapter 16: How to Cover Crime, Courts, and Trials -- Chapter 17: How to Cover Science, Medicine, and Religion -- Chapter 18: How to Write a Critical Review of an Art Form -- Chapter 19: How to Write a Column or a Blog -- Chapter 20: How to Write Feature Stories -- Chapter 21: Freelancing and How to Do It -- Chapter 22: How to Handle the Press -- Chapter 23: How to Write in Public Relations -- Chapter 24: How to Write News for the Company Magazine -- Chapter 25: How to Ghostwrite a Speech for Your CEO -- Chapter 26: How and Why to Write the Speech of Introduction -- Chapter 27: How to Get Publicity for Your CEO's Speeches -- Chapter 28: How to Write and Deliver a Briefing -- Chapter 29: How to Plan for a Convention -- Chapter 30: Public Relations in a Crisis -- Chapter 31: Now What? -- Chapter 32: Find a Job -- Appendix 1: Verbs of Attribution and How to Use Them -- Appendix 2: Words: Their Definition and Usage -- Appendix 3: Keyboard Shortcuts and Why to Use Them -- Appendix 4: Keyboard Shortcuts for the Macintosh -- Appendix 5: Keyboard Shortcuts for Every PC.

Appendix 6: How to Calculate Percentage of Change -- Appendix 7: Writing Styles of Different News Media -- Appendix 8: Terms You Should Know -- Appendix 9: What to Expect from Reporters from Different News Media -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.