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America's best newspaper writing, a collection of ASNE prizewinners, [compiled by] Roy Peter Clark, Christopher Scanlan

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Includes journalism web resources (p. [iii] of cover

no index present

non fiction

America's best newspaper writing

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[compiled by] Roy Peter Clark, Christopher Scanlan

a collection of ASNE prizewinners

1. Deadline Writing. Report from the Mideast: Shiva for a child slain in a Palestinian raid / Richard Ben Cramer -- Jury sends Santa Claus Killer to electric chair / Leonora Bohen LaPeter -- Men of steel are melting with age / David Von Drehle -- In Belfast, death, too, is diminished by death / Francis X. Clines -- 2. Local reporting and beats. All she has, $150,000, is going to a university / Rich Bragg -- Losing it: careers fall like autumn leaves / Thomas Boswell -- It fluttered and became Bruce Murray's heart / Jonathan Bor -- Mackenzie football star another gunplay victim / Mitch Albom -- Even for trees, age could have its privileges; Domino's bites back at tax / Russell Eshleman -- Caught up in the crossfire / Dan Neil -- 3. Obituaries and funerals. Ray Bolger, the immortal scarecrow / Tom Shales -- Edward E. 'Ace' Clark, ice and coal dealer; Tastykake retiree Marie Byrne / Jim Nicholson -- 4. Crime and courts. Caught in the web: evil at the door / Cathy Frye -- Humanity on trial / Linnet Myers -- Metal to bone: Day 1: click / Anne Hull -- 5. Business reporting and explanatory journalism. The life of a cowboy: drudgery and danger / William E. Blundell -- Making it fly: designing the 757 / Peter Rinearson -- Property tax exemptions: legal but terribly unfair / Michael Gartner -- 6. Opinion and persuasion. Woman burned while police had their danish / Murray Kempton -- Tugs at the curtain but the wizard's lips remain frozen / Richard Aregood -- A one-word assault on women / Donna Britt -- The two Alabamas / Bailey Thomson -- Abernathy allies: Kings defend rogue who sullied famed name / Cynthia Tucker -- A thesaurist leaves, exits / Andrew H. Malcolm -- Second thoughts following NY verdict / Leonard Pitts --7. The profile and feature story. Dr. Seuss: Wild orchestrator of plausible nonsense for kids / Cynthia Gorney -- Koch grabs big apple and shakes it / Saul Pett -- Havana Journal: A sentimental journey to La Casa of childhood / Mirta Ojito -- For Lerro, skyway nightmare never ends / David Finkel -- A beautiful find / Tommy Tomlinson -- Life, death, and corruption on an African mainstream / Blaine Harden -- Ah, What a day! / Ken Fuson -- 8. Terrorism, war, and disasters. Nation stands in disbelief and horror / Bryan Gruley -- Amid the ruins, a separate peace / Steve Lopez -- Only human wreckage is left in Karubamba / Mark Fritz -- A boy who was like a flower / Anthony Shadid -- 1,200 feet of St. Helens tossed to the wind / Richard Zahler -- Fighting for life 50 floors up, with one tool and ingenuity / Jim Dwyer -- 9. The classics. Prisoners with midnight in their hearts / Harold A. Littledale -- Mary White / William Allen White -- Iowa village waits all night for glimpse at fleeting train / Lorena A. Hickok -- Joe Louis uncovers dynamite / Richard Wright -- Mr. Welles and mass delusion / Dorothy Thompson -- The death of Captain Henry Waskow / Ernie Pyle -- From the Bronx slave market / Marvel Cooke -- Miracle of Coogan's Bluff / Red Smith -- About New York / Meyer Berger -- A flower for the graves / Gene Patterson -- 10. The craft of writing great stories. The building blocks of the story -- The language of journalism -- Writing to inform, writing to engage -- Making hard facts easy reading -- 11. The ethics of non-fiction writing