Joining 2 tables on 1

[Ice]

I've got a big problem trying to join 2 tables on 1 tables in mysql

I have 3 tables:
-news
-category
-user

Im trying to take a category name and picture from one table and the username and mail from another table,
youll see:

So far ive produced 2 queries, none of which work.

SELECT 
  news.newsID, 
  news.header, 
  newst.ingress, 
  news.timestamp, 
  user.username, 
  user.mail, 
  category.name, 
  category.picUrl
FROM category INNER JOIN (user INNER JOIN news ON user.userID = news.userID) ON category.categoryID = news.categoryID

SELECT
  news.newsID, 
  news.header, 
  newst.ingress, 
  news.timestamp, 
  user.username, 
  user.mail, 
  category.name, 
  category.picUrl
FROM
  news,
  user,
  category
WHERE
  news.userID = user.userID
  AND
  news.categoryID = category.categoryID

the first one give me an error
and the second one just wont return anything, even though ive filled up the tables with enough dummy data to test with.

[barand]

Rearrange the first

SELECT 
  news.newsID, 
  news.header, 
  newst.ingress, 
  news.timestamp, 
  user.username, 
  user.mail, 
  category.name, 
  category.picUrl
FROM category INNER JOIN news ON category.categoryID = news.categoryID INNER  JOIN user ON user.userID = news.userID) 

Coincidentally, I've just tried one exactly like you had and had that rejected too.