Newspaper Editing - Grant Milnor Hyde

Excerpt from Newspaper Editing: A Manual for Editors, Copyreaders, Readers, and Students of Newspaper Desk Work
This book has been prepared as a manual for newspaper desk men and a textbook for editing classes in the schools of journalism. Although a number of good handbooks on journalism have appeared in the past few years, the writers of such books have been so interested ill the needs of the reporter that they have rather generally neglected the copyreader - a man of even greater responsibilities. It is to fill this need a need that has been impressed upon the author by five years experience as teacher of journalism that this book was written. And, just as in his "Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence," published three years ago, the author hast not tried to cover the entire field of newspaper work, but has confined himself to the particular branch.
The intent of the book is not only to present the tools and methods of the copy editor but to show, as well, the interesting possibilities in his work. Too many newspaper men, especially reporters, regard desk work as unimaginative drudgery and feel that to be placed "on the desk" is to be pushed back out of the firing line. To counteract such a feeling is sufficient reason for the writing of a book.
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