This book, which is primarily addressed to the high school journalism student and teacher, discusses what depth reporting is and how it is done. Depth reporting is understood to be a relating of the facts so that the reader can fully understand them. It includes such activities as observing, supplying background information, humanizing the news, investigating a situation, explaining the meaning of the facts, orienting the reader, and analyzing or discovering general principles. The author discusses why such reporting is necessary; some of the subjects and topics for in-depth reporting; how to do the necessary research; the style of writing best suited to depth reporting; how to edit and produce the story; how to display the story; the analysis, background, interpretive, and follow-up kinds of depth reporting; and how such reporting can help to accomplish social and political change. (Author/DI)