Jan 31, 2023
Tinka Tinka India Awards, 2022
Weekly Class Report: Media, Law and Ethics
Written by-
Stuti Garg
CR, Batch of 2024
Jan 29, 2023
Weekly Class Report: Introduction to Journalism
(Disclaimer: This is a brief documentation of the classes pertaining to Introduction to Journalism, taught by Dr. Vartika Nanda and has been compiled purely for academic purposes.)
WEEKLY REPORT: 12th December-17th December,2022
A discussion was directed with the aim of allowing students to interact with the concept 'INGREDIENTS OF NEWS' and its underlying components. This included proximity, locality, timeliness, prominence, consequences and emotions.
Proximity- Events that happen within the proximity of a news organisation are of more concern to that news media, and readers who are part of the same region.
Timeliness- Refers to how freshness can enhance a story. It is believed the timely nature of a story can attract readers since there exists a need to access instantaneous news or to know what's happening now.
Emotions/Human Interest- Such stories appeal to the emotions of readers, and allow readers to engage with the story in a different way.
Prominence- Refers to how certain events are newsworthy because prominent or popular people are involved (and that might be of interest to the readers).
Consequence/Impact- Refers to the interest in readers with reference to knowing about stories that can have significant impact on their communities or society.
Jan 17, 2023
Kissa Khaki Ka: Delhi Police celebrates one year of podcasting
16 January 2023
Kissa Khaki Ka: Delhi Police celebrates one year of podcasting
• First police force in India to have its podcast
• Stories are aired every Sunday
• 55 stories broadcast in a span of one year
• Vartika Nanda is the official storyteller
Commissioner of Police, Delhi Shri Sanjay Arora facilitated the entire team of Kissa Khaki Ka at the police headquarters on 16th January. This the first and the only podcast in India which is run by the police department started on 16th January 2022. This podcast series have presented to the world unique stories of crime and humanity related to Delhi Police personnels.
Release of the book- Kissa Khaki Ka
On this occasion, CP Delhi released the book titled Kissa Khaki Ka- Varsh Ek, Smritiyan Anek at the Adarsh Auditorium, Police headquarters in Delhi. This book has a collection of all the 54 episodes broadcast till 16th January 2023.
The felicitation of storyteller and the team
The Police Commissioner felicitated Dr. Vartika Nanda on this occasion, appreciating her efforts to do this work on an honorary basis. The creative designing team of Delhi Police, Akhya, and the PRO team of Delhi Police were also felicitated along with all those police personnels who have appeared in Kissa Khaki Ka in the past one year.
Storytelling through audio platform
Kissa Khaki Ka is broadcast every Sunday at 2pm on all the social media platforms of Delhi Police. There is a wide range of stories that have been covered so far ranging from murder abduction and cybercrime. The storytelling includes both the stories of solving a crime and also tales of humanity.
The voice of Delhi Police
Kissa Khaki Ka is conceived written invoiced by media educator and prison reformer Dr. Vartika Nanda. She heads the Department of journalism at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. She also runs a podcast series, Tinka Tinka Jail Radio, the only podcast in India dedicated to prison reforms. Speaking on the occasion, she reflected upon her journey as a television journalist, her doctoral research work on coverage of rape cases by the media, work on prison reforms through Tinka Tinka foundation and her observations on the changing face of media with the perspective of a media educator. She urged the police force to disseminate the good work of police personnel by making available these podcasts as a piece of study at various police training institutes.
The Selfie Point
Delhi Police has created two special selfie points at the police headquarters so that all those who come to the headquarter make it a point to get their pictures clicked at this selfie point.
While Kissa Khaki Ka has already started appearing as a piece of question in various competitive exams, this digital storytelling has a long way to go.
#podcasting #vartikananda #delhipolice #storytelling #digitalmedia
Jan 14, 2023
Kissa Khaki Ka: Delhi Police And Vartika Nanda: First Podcast Of The Police Completing One Year
Jan 11, 2023
INGREDIENTS OF NEWS
DISCLAIMER: The notes given below are the compilation of information from various sources based on the topics that were discussed in the ‘Introduction to Journalism’ class. These notes are being compiled to help the students of Journalism enhance their knowledge.
DEPARTMENT: B.A. (Hons) Journalism
SEMESTER: I
PAPER: INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM
UNIT:I
TOPIC: INGREDIENTS OF NEWS
Time Period: The mentioned topic was discussed in class in the first week of December, 2022.
News is an account of human activity, which seeks to interest, inform, or educate the readers but it is a pain-staking task to create, organize, write and re-create news material making it worthy of interest for the audience. A news item becomes worthy not just because of its formatting and exposure but also because of the elements which form its part. We may call them “ingredients of news”
1. Immediacy
Immediacy or timeliness is an important requisite of news. A reporter usually places emphasis on the latest angles of an event. The words ‘today’ and ‘tomorrow’ are related in most of the news stories. Occasionally a story may concern events that happened in the past. In this case, the reporter discusses some present aspects of a past event.
We are well acquainted with the term “breaking news”, which highlights the immediacy aspect of news.
2. Proximity
Proximity or nearness refers to geographic nearness. Normally a reader is more interested in an event geographically nearer than the one which has taken place in some remote part of the world.
3. Consequences
A reporter should emphasize the angle of a story that will interest most readers, listeners or viewers in terms of consequences.
4. Prominence
Prominence means persons, places, things and situations known to the public for their weather, social position, achievement or previous publicity. The reporter should always add as many prominent names and places in news stories as possible. The more renowned a particular name, place, event or situation, the more interest the news will create among its readers.
5. Drama
It also promotes the value of a news story. A reporter tries to find a picturesque background and dramatic action for his news.
(This particular aspect has been facing a lot of backlashes and criticisms in the present times as the quality has gone downhill with extremely loud subjects and unnecessary vulgarity. What our critics and audience believe is that some sprinkle of masala here and there is fine and even important, but extreme chaotic news, obscene ness and violation of people's privacy is where they draw the line)
6. Oddity
Oddity or queerness always helps to make facts interesting. The greater the degree of oddity in a story, the greater is its value as news.
7. Conflict
It is one of the most important news elements. It is inherent in nearly all news of sports, war, crime, violence and internal disputes and in all stories involving difference of opinion. Generally, the news of conflict also involves other news values such as drama and oddity and therefore, has an emotional impact, a factor that appeals to many people. Many types of stories have conflict as their underlying element: the struggle against odd. As a wise man once said, “Conflict is the adrenaline of news”
8. Suspense
People need a reason to keep reading. The news shall be able to keep their own edges all the time so that they are fully alarmed when they hear a new piece of info and eager to look into it.
9. Emotion
Anything that deals with people's experiences and conveys real emotion will help them to connect with your message, but this should be done appropriately and with authenticity. It doesn't have to be a tear-jerker of a story, nor does it need to be designed to keep your audience in stitches - sometimes it helps to just be a little bit more human in your communications.
10. Extremes/superlatives
Reporters and audiences might be interested in the first, the best, the longest, the smallest, the highest – if the media can legitimately claim one.
11. Scandal
Reporters want a scoop on the scandal – everyone wants to hear all the details whenever there is moral or legal misconduct.
12. The Bizarre
Anything with shock value seems like a click bait and we keep on clicking and clicking.
13. Celebrity
Whenever something happens to someone important or semi-famous, we tend to care more about it because we have been watching these people growing up and unknowingly a connection develops, and with that a deeper interest in their lives.
14. Impact
Impact poses a question: How will it affect the readers? A reporter emphasizes the angle of the story that interests more readers, listeners or viewers in terms of impact. The number of people affected by an event influences the story’s newsworthiness.
Example: A rise in income tax may, at first sight, seem the basis of a dull and depressing article but it has an impact because it would affect most people’s pockets.
‘The more people involved in an event, the stronger the story, the more impactful it is’.
History never actually repeats, but it does seem to repeat tendencies. Similarly, news stories never duplicate each other, but they do have a way of falling into definite categories. Analyzing them as we read them from day to day or listen to them as they come over through different sources of news like radio, TV or newspaper, we can easily distinguish elements of news interest which recur constantly. Given above are some of the most important elements, which make NEWS. However, there are always occasions when we find new situations arising and taking place as eminent news stories in media all over the world.
(This is compiled by a team of 3 students from the batch of 2026. This is published under the Media Research Cell, established by Dr. Vartika Nanda in the year 2020.)
Delhi Police: Podcasts: Kissa Khaki Ka: Episode 54
Promo of Episode 54:
Jan 3, 2023
Delhi Police: Podcasts: Kissa Khaki Ka: Episode 53
Promo of Episode 53:
Fifty-Third Episode of Kissa Khaki Ka: Released on 1 January 2023: