Headlines and Deadlines: A Manual for Copy Editors

✍ Scribed by Robert E. Garst; Theodore M. Bernstein

Publisher: Columbia University Press
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Leaves: 244
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A handbook meant to explain the technique of copy editing and the best standards of the metropolitan press to journalists. Includes a section on editing copies and another on writing headlines, with a condensed list of 'abused words' and 'headline vocabulary of related words' appended.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Note from the Publisher
Foreword
Preface
Part One. Copy
1. Newspaper Organization
2. The Copy Editor
3. Editing the Copy
4. Electronic Editing
5. Abused Words
Part Two. The Headline
6. What the Headline Is
7. How the Headline Looks
8. What the Headline Says
9. How the Headline Says It
10. A Clinic for Ailing Headlines
11. A Headline Vocabulary of Related Words
A Glossary of Newspaper Terms
Index

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