Intro covers the topics all journalists need to know for a career in journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, including: Finding and writing news, reporting specialist rounds (like politics and sport), radio and TV journalism, media law and ethics, web-based reporting, digital news photography, using social media to find and develop stories, reporting Maori affairs, reporting on diversity.

Written by experienced journalism educators and journalists, it includes extensive advice from working journalists. Online exercises are also available for all the book's chapters.