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Practical Newspaper Reporting in fourth edition

A detailed, down-to-earth book about reporting has just been produced  by David Spark who edits the CJA’s e-mailed newsletter. It is a fourth and completely rewritten edition of a classic book, Practical Newspaper Reporting by Spark and another journalist, Geoffrey Harris.

It gives guidance on news gathering, including from the internet. It offers tutorials in news writing, which discuss how passages that have appeared in print could have been improved. It offers advice on writing for the web. It discusses feature-writing, the new importance of religion, and the  possibilties and pitfalls of investigative journalism. It reviews the new financial realities that the internet is imposing on the media. It touches on the growing importance of such services as Facebook and Twitter.

David Spark has been a journalist for well over 50 years, mainly serving British provincial newspapers. But, as a freelance, he has contributed to the British national press and to newspapers all over the world.

The new Practical Newspaper Reporting is published by a new publisher, Sage (www.sagepublications.com). Its ISBN number is 9 781847 878977.