An A-to-Z guide to succeed in the newsroom or refresh rusty journalistic skills, this handbook offers insight into how newspapers are composed. This fully revised and updated edition is interactive, with exercises, discussions, case studies, and checklists supplementing the information at every stage. Including all the practical hints, tips, and real-life South African case studies, it also adds important new elements to reflect the current media climate as well as the opinions of several respected South African journalists.

An A-to-Z guide to succeed in the newsroom or refresh rusty journalistic skills, this handbook offers insight into how newspapers are composed. This fully revised and updated edition is interactive, with exercises, discussions, case studies, and checklists supplementing the information at every stage. Including all the practical hints, tips, and real-life South African case studies, it also adds important new elements to reflect the current media climate as well as the opinions of several respected South African journalists.