Willard Grosvenor Bleyer’s Types of News Writing is a textbook from one of the founders of American journalism education. Through annotated examples, it surveys the forms of newspaper writing — the straight news story, the feature, the interview, and the editorial — and the techniques behind each.
Bleyer helped establish journalism as a university discipline, and this practical guide reflects the standards he set for clarity, accuracy, and structure. It remains a valuable record of how the craft of reporting was systematized in the early twentieth century. Download the free EPUB of this foundational journalism textbook.