Working on a beat; Covering of Beats- crime, courts, city reporting, local reporting, hospitals, health, education, sports. Covering speeches, meetings and press conferences, Political.
Interviewing: research, setting up the interview, conducting the interview.
Writing News Leads, Writing News Story: Inverted Pyramid; Body of the story. Attribution, Verification.
Understanding Features: Writing types of features : human interest stories, leads for features, Writing Articles on current issues.
Writing headlines for various pieces of stories. Clicking pictures for news.
Writing editorials and other stories on edit page. Editing News, features and Articles .
Comparison between supplements and pull outs. Column writing.
Understanding media and news. Case studies on Trial by media
1. Reporting for the Media (2001-2015). Fred Fedler; Bender. Oxford University Press, USA
2. Reporting Methods (2005). S. Kundra, Anmol Publication, New Delhi.
3. Techniques of Feature Writing and Mass Communication (2011). Neha Arora, Random Publication, New Delhi.
4. Writing for the Media (2010). Usha Raman. Oxford University Press, New Delhi
5. Writing For The Media (2015). Latha Nair. Ane Books, New Delhi
6. Newspaper Vocabulary (2002). Umesh Arya,. Anmol Publication.New Delhi
7. News Reporting and Writing (2010). Brooks, St. Martin's Press, New Delhi
8. News Reporting Presentation and Style: Principles and Practices (2009). Suhas Chakravarty; Kanishka Pant. Publishers, New Delhi
9. News Writing (2006). George A Hough. Kanishka Publishers.New Delhi
10. Newspaper Feature Writing (2006). Len. Granato, Anmol Publication, New Delhi