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Writing for Newspapers with stories by Ernest Hemingway

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The purpose of this book is to instruct the prospective newspaper reporter in the way to write those stories which his future paper will call upon him to write, and to help the young cub reporter and the struggling correspondent past the perils of the copyreader's pencil by telling them how to write clean copy that requires a minimum of editing. It is not concerned with the -why- of the newspaper business--the editor may attend to that--but with the -how- of the reporter's work. And an ability to write is believed to be the reporter's chief asset. There is no space in this book to dilate upon newspaper organization, the work of the business office, the writing of advertisements, the principles of editorial writing, or the how and why of newspaper policy and practice, as it is. These things do not concern the reporter during the first few months of his work, and he will learn them from experience when he needs them. Until then, his usefulness depends solely upon his ability to get news and to write it.

Early Newspaper Writings of Ernest Hemingway

This is a collection of some of the earliest published writings by Ernest Hemingway. Considered by many to be one of the greatest writers of the 20th century Hemingway started out as a newspaper reporter.

Hemingway never went to college. He finished high school at age 17 and went to work for the Kansas City Star. Hemingway worked at the star for six months before leaving on April 30 1918 to join the Red Cross ambulance service as a driver on the battlefield of the First World War.
While at the Star, Hemingway was influenced by assistant editor C.G. "Pete" Wellington, who pushed Hemingway to adopt a cleaner, more forceful writing style.
Years later, Hemingway fondly recalled The Star Copy Style sheet, a one-page list of writing rules. Here is the original list of rules for writing from the Kansas City Star. The same rules that Hemingway learned to write with.

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