=Typographical style.= Peculiarities in such details of typographical style as abbreviation, capitalization, hyphenation, and the use of numerical figures should be noted in each story and associated with the newspaper from which the story was taken, for each paper has a typographical style of its own. One style is as good as another, but it is essential that consistency be maintained.
The printing of significant facts in a box at the beginning or in the body of a story, often in bold-face type, the method of arranging lists of dead and injured, the forms for market reports, scores in sports, and similar details should be carefully noted.
AN OUTLINE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF NEWS STORIES
1. In what paper was the story published?
2. What are the policy and the character of the paper?
3. How widely does the paper circulate outside of the place in which it is published?
4. Does the paper appeal to a particular class of readers?
5. Is the piece of news presented from the point of view of this class?
6. What, for the average reader, is the source of interest in the news contained in the story?
7. How much would the news interest the average reader? Why?
8. Do you think that the news was worth more or less space than was given to it? Why?
9. What more significant phases might have been played up or developed?
2. Where was the first record of it probably made? By whom?
3. What records and what persons may have been consulted in securing the news?
4. What reference books or material may have been used in getting or in verifying the details of the story?
5. What other possible sources might have been consulted?
1. What evidence does the story give of the methods by which the news was obtained?
2. Is there any evidence that the reporter or correspondent failed to get any of the important details of the piece of news?
1. Does the story seem to be fair and unbiased?
2. Is there evidence that any important facts were suppressed or that the story was colored to conform to the policy of the paper?
3. Is the handling of the news constructive or destructive in its effect?
4. What, if any, is the constructive purpose of the writer?
5. Is the story so treated as to tempt the reader to imitate anti-social acts?