America's Best Newspaper Writing

📖 The Scoop

- 36 award-winning stories from 30 world-class journalists plus eight "classics." America's Best Newspaper Writing provides students with both prize-winners from the prestigious American Society of Newspaper Editors competition and eight "classic" stories that every journalism student should read. Including stories from Rick Bragg, Richard Ben Cramer, Donna Britt, and Mitch Albom, this reader provides the most current collection of excellent stories available, giving students the models they need to strengthen their own writing.
- A greater emphasis on local reporting than any other book. Award-winning examples of local reporting--beats, obituaries, crime and the courts, business reporting, and deadline writing--provide all the kinds of news stories students will write when they first enter the profession.
- Introduction to key reporting and writing skills. Chapter Nine provides better treatment than any other comparable collection and covers the basics of writing news stories, writing with style, making hard facts easy reading, and the ethics of writing nonfiction.

Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism (fancy, right?)