Introduction to newswriting: three considerations -- Communication and the news media -- Newswriting basics: honesty, accuracy, fairness -- Writing with clarity and style -- Writing news for print -- Writing news for broadcast -- Writing for the new electronic media: teletext & videotex -- Information sources and research methods -- Newsroom operations -- Interviewing -- Covering speeches -- Covering meetings and news conferences -- Stories from public-relations sources -- The feature story -- Columns and commentary -- Depth reporting -- Opinion writing: reviews and editorials -- A summary of mass-communication law.