Reporting and Editing for Print

Paper Code: 
CJMC 201
Credits: 
4
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. It will also make students understand the nitty-gritty of beat reporting.

 

15.00
Unit I: 

Reporters and Correspondents - role, functions and qualities. Covering of Beats- city reporting, local reporting , crime, courts, , hospitals, health, education, sports Covering speeches, meetings and press conferences; News Agency Reporting.

15.00
Unit II: 

Interviewing: research and conduction

Importance and types of News  Leads . Structure of the News Story: Inverted Pyramid; Features: types of features , human interest stories, leads for features, Difference between articles and features& editorials.

 

10.00
Unit III: 

Editorial department. Functions  and their role. Introduction to editing: Principles of editing, Importance of Headlines, functions of headlines, types of headlines, importance of pictures, selection of news pictures .Editorial page.

 

10.00
Unit IV: 

Trends in sectional news .Importance of   pullouts.  Supplements, Backgrounders. Importance of  columns in newspapers . Advertorials.

 

10.00
Unit V: 

Understanding media and news. Objectivity and fairness of news., factors affecting news treatment, paid news. Pressures in the newsroom. Trial by media. Gatekeepers.

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Baskette and Scissors .The Art of Editing,  Allyn and Bacon Publication.
  1. S.N. Chaturvedi .Dynamics of Journalism and Art of Editing, , Cyber Tech Publications.
  1. Bruce Itule and Douglas Anderson, News Writing and Reporting for Today’s Media, McGraw Hill Publication.
  1. F.W. Hodgson Modern newspaper practice: A primer on the press, Focal Press.
  1. Fred Fedler and John R. Bender .Reporting for the Media, Oxford University Press.
  1. Richard Keeble, The Newspaper’s Handbook, Routledge Publication
  1. MacDougall and Curtis Daniel, Principles of Editorial Writing, W.C. Brown Co. Publishers
  1. Mencher, Melvin .News Reporting and Writing. MC Graw Hill, NY. 2003
  1. Denis McQuail .Mass Communication Theory,  Sage Publications
  1. ;Fedler, Fred. Harcout, Bruce Jovanovich Inc Reporting for the Print media‘. (2nd ed) .NY. 1979
Academic Year: 
2018-2019
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