Practical- Reporting and Editing for Print

Paper Code: 
CJMC 202
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

This course will enable the students to understand the process of gathering information and writing news for different beats. It will also enable students to understand the process of feature writing and it’s types.

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Working on a beat; Covering of Beats- crime, courts, city reporting, local reporting, hospitals, health, education, sports. Covering speeches, meetings and press conferences, Political.

 

20.00
Unit II: 

Interviewing: research, setting up the interview, conducting the interview.

Writing  News Leads, Writing News Story: Inverted Pyramid; Body of the story. Attribution, Verification.

 

 

10.00
Unit III: 

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.

 

 

10.00
Unit IV: 

Writing editorials and other stories on edit page. Editing News, features and Articles .

Comparison between supplements and pull outs. Column writing.

 

10.00
Unit V: 

Understanding media and news. Case studies on Trial by media

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018
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