The Reporter's Companion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Reporter's Companion The proper, because the best instrument for reporting, is a gold pen - provided the writer obtains one suited to his hand, and style of writing. Pen and ink are as superior to pencil for reporting as for correspondence: in both cases the reading is as important as the writing. A pencil may be occasionally used for practice, and for actual reporting, when a pen cannot be conveniently employed, as when the writer is obliged to make a desk of his knee, or his hat, or the shoulder of the person in front of him, at a public meeting. One of the best reports of a meeting we ever remember reading, was made in a standing crowd, the reporter having to hold his note book considerably above his head. Most reporters who have had equal opportunities of judging of the relative advantages of pen and pencil, prefer the former. A small glass inkstand, two inches square and one inch high, with large mouth and screw top, will be found most convenient. Smooth paper should never be used with a pencil, nor rough paper with a pen. A pencil of medium hardness and blackness, of the quality of Faber's No. 3, is adapted for Phonographic reporting. For a report of a sermon, three or four pencils should be sharpened. Those who are unaccustomed to drawing will perhaps need to be told, that a pencil is best sharpened by cutting the wood to a long bevel, and rubbing the lead to a point upon a piece of sandstone, or a file. The pencil should be held somewhat more upright for reporting, than for longhand writing, otherwise the point will be liable to be broken off. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.