Contemporary editing/
by Cecilia Friend and Donald Challenger
- 3rd ed.
- New York and London: Routledge , 2015.
- xxi,415p.
PART 1: Approaching the Story. 1. Focus on Fundamentals: The Editor Within -- 2. Focus on News Judgment: The Editor's Attitude -- 3. Focus on Skills and Tools: The Editor in the Newsroom -- 4. Focus on Grammar: The Mechanics of Language -- 5. Focus on Good Writing: Strong and Graceful Prose -- 6. Focus on Headlines: Precision, Power and Poetry -- PART 2: Inside the Story. 7. News Close to Home: Editing Local and Community Media -- 8. News from Afar: Editing Nonlocal Stories -- 9. Making a Long Story Short: Editing for Brevity and Clarity -- 10. Working with Writers: Editing Features -- 11. No Safety in Numbers: Checking Them Twice -- 12. Doing Justice: Ethical and Legal issues -- PART 3: Beyond the Story. 13. An Eye for News: Editing Visuals -- 14. Showing the Story: Editing Data Visualizations -- 15. The Balancing Act: Desigining Pages.