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Title: Essentials in journalism; a manual in newspaper making for college classes
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Harrington, Harry Franklin, 1882-1935 Frankenberg, Theodore Thomas, b. 1877
Subjects: Journalism
Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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aph editor enough, includes a great deal of matter that is sent inby mail. Most papers subscribe for certain telegraph service, as theAssociated Press, which has agents and representatives in every sec-tion of the globe and sends nightly to all the larger offices from 30to 40 columns of matter. Other telegraph services are the Hearst,the Laffan, the United Press, all with ramifications covering theworld and all as actively competitive as the newspapers they serve. loS ESSENTIALS IN JOURNALISM Since the average daily prints only about 20 columns of tele-graph matter, the first problem of the telegraph editor is one ofselection. He must decide whether a flood in China or a politicaluprising in England will be of the greater interest to his readers.He must also decide which articles to print in detail and which tocondense into a paragraph. He mus.t determine which to accordlarge, prominent heads and which to tuck away under a singleline of machine caps. Each item should grip some reader.
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Getting News by Wire Courtesy New York Herald A big newspaper ofifice is like the human brain, with nerves reaching to every part of theworld. These telegraph lines are essentially the same as those in any commercial office Most of the copy that comes by wire is well written, but errorsin transcription are common, so that all copy must be carefullyscanned. In the larger offices considerable matter may come bycable. This arrives in skeleton form and has to be filled out. Manyof the New York papers have editors who do nothing but handlecable copy often building long stories from meager details. In addition to this regular telegraph service every paper usesmore or less of what is called special service. This is matter which OTHER DESK POSITIONS 109 only a single paper will want. The telegraph news services, men-tioned above, confine themselves to matters of general interest.Suppose some local man who is a given papers candidate for anelective office delivers an address in a city 100 mile

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