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NEWSPAPER WRITING
AND EDITING
BY
WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER, Ph.D.
CHAIRMAN OF THE COURSE IN JOURNALISM, AND
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF JOURNALISM IN
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
TO
A. H. B.
PREFACE
Seven years’ experience in trying to train collegestudents in methods of newspaper writing and editinghas convinced the author of the need of text-books injournalism. Newspapers themselves supply the studentwith so miscellaneous a collection of good, bad, and mediocrework that, with an uncritical taste, he does notalways discriminate in the character of the models whichhe selects to imitate. Lectures by experienced editorsand writers, although fruitful of much inspiration andgeneral information, seldom give the student sufficientlyspecific and detailed directions to guide him in his dailywork. What he needs is a handbook containing typicalexamples of all of the kinds of newspaper work that heis likely to be called upon to do during the first yearsof his newspaper experience. These examples shouldb