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 editions or in the next day's issues by completing what was necessarily left incomplete for lack of time, or by giving new phases of the event that have developed since the first story was written. A reporter on a morning paper, for example, would be given a clipping of the above story taken from the afternoon edition, and would be told by the city editor to see the coroner to get the results of his telegram to Williams, the man's nephew, at Ithaca, and any other information available regarding the identity of the old man. Often unexpected and important news develops, which makes the "follow-up," or second story a bigger one than the first. Each reporter and correspondent should read carefully as many newspapers as possible before he begins his day's work so that he may get suggestions for "follow-up" stories on his "run," or for "local ends" of news stories sent in from outside the city. In large offices, one of the editors goes over all the local newspapers to clip out the stories to be "followed up," or to be rewritten in the office.

Interviewing. In obtaining the information for the foregoing story by means of conversations with several persons, the reporter's aim was to get what they said rather than how they said it; that is, he wanted primarily the facts that they had to give, not the way that they expressed these facts. In the news story it was not necessary to refer specifically to the persons who furnished the information or to quote what they said. In many instances, however, it is important to "interview" persons in order to obtain their opinions or their versions of current events and to give what they say just as they said it. The terms "interviewing" and "interview" in newspaper work are often limited to this method of reporting practically verbatim what is said by the persons "interviewed." Interviewing of this