Practical: Reporting and Editing for Print

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

This course will enable the students to -

  1. Understand the process of gathering information and writing news.
  2. Understand the nitty-gritty of beat reporting.
  3. Understand the process of feature writing and it’s types.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course

Learning outcomes

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

CJMC 202

Practical: Reporting and Editing for Print

CO32:Students would be able to understand the basics of reporting.

CO33:Students would be able to familiarize themselves with different types of reporting.

CO34:Students would be able to create understanding of specialized reporting.

 CO35:Students would be able to develop the general understanding of art culture and sports reporting and crime reporting.

CO36:Students would be able to edit the stories.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Simulation, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Field practical

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, report writing, coverage of news, translations, editing stories

 

10.00

 

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

 

 

15.00

 

  • Interviewing: research, setting up the interview, conducting the interview
  • Writing News Leads, Writing News Story: Inverted Pyramid
  • Body of the story
  • Attribution, Verification

 

 

15.00

 

  • 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

 

  • Writing editorials and other stories on edit page
  • Editing News, features and Articles
  • Comparison between supplements and pull outs
  • Column writing

 

 

10.00

 

  • Understanding media and news
  • Case studies on Trial by media.

 

 

Essential Readings: 

 

 

  • Reporting for the Media (2001-2015). Fred Fedler; Bender. Oxford University Press, USA
  • Reporting Methods (2005). S. Kundra, Anmol Publication, New Delhi.
  • Techniques of Feature Writing and Mass Communication (2011). Neha Arora, Random Publication, New Delhi.
  • Writing for the Media (2010). Usha Raman. Oxford University Press, New Delhi
  • Writing For the Media (2015). Latha Nair. Ane Books, New Delhi
  • Newspaper Vocabulary (2002). Umesh Arya,. Anmol Publication. New Delhi
  • News Reporting and Writing (2010). Brooks, St. Martin's Press, New Delhi
  • News Reporting Presentation and Style: Principles and Practices (2009). Suhas Chakravarty; Kanishka Pant. Publishers, New Delhi
  • News Writing (2006). George A Hough. Kanishka Publishers. New Delhi
  • Newspaper Feature Writing (2006). Len. Granato, Anmol Publication, New Delhi

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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