In the book you will find a unique course on teaching reporting techniques from a journalist from Russian Reporter, a leading all-Russian magazine specializing in the reporting genre. You will learn how to choose a topic for a report, propose it to the editor, act effectively on the scene of an event, find the right heroes, write a headline and lead that will attract the reader's attention. An entire section is devoted to effective communication at the scene of an event - how to learn to talk with difficult interlocutors, help them talk about their feelings and reduce the number of refusals to communicate to a minimum. When preparing a report for publication, you will achieve the most vivid impression from your text, using methods for the most advantageous composition of report elements. The manual contains more than a hundred examples of working with the text and characters of the best reports published in the domestic press in recent years. For students majoring in Journalism, as well as for correspondents and editors of print media.