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 for publication when it becomes public. For example, when a copy of the speech to be delivered by the governor of the state at the laying of a corner-stone at eleven o'clock in the morning on Washington's Birthday, is obtained a day or two in advance, it is marked "Release 12, Feb. 22." The result will be that in the first edition of the afternoon paper published after 12 o'clock noon on February 22 as much of the speech as is desired can be printed, perhaps a few minutes after the governor has concluded his address. Newspapers always regard most scrupulously the release date which the reporter or correspondent puts at the top of his advance story. To violate the confidence of men who furnish news in advance by publishing it before it should be released, is considered by newspaper men a serious breach of trust. Reporters and correspondents should, therefore, mark plainly at the top of the first sheet of copy the word "release" followed by the hour and date when it can be printed. If the date and hour at which the news will become public cannot be fixed in advance, the copy is marked, "Hold for Release, which will probably be at 12, Feb. 22"; and the reporter or correspondent notifies his paper of the exact time of release as soon as it is fixed.

Getting News by Telephone. The telephone, both in local and in long distance service, is extensively used in getting news and in communicating it to the newspaper office. Editors often telephone their instructions to reporters and correspondents. Newspapermen use the telephone to "run down" rumors and "tips," to verify news reports, to get "interviews," and, in short, to obtain all kinds of information. Although some men refuse to be "interviewed" over the telephone, it is often possible to get "interviews" more easily by this means than by any other. Reporters, or "watchers," at