Course contents:
Unit 1-Understanding News
- Ingredients of news
- News: meaning, definition, nature
- The news process: from the event to the reader (how news is carried from event to reader)
- Hard news vs. soft news, basic components of a news story
- Attribution, embargo, verification, balance and fairness, brevity, dateline, credit line, byline.
Unit 2-Different forms of print-A historical Perspective
- Yellow journalism
- Penny press, tabloid press
- Language of news Robert Gunning: Principles of clear writing Rudolf Flesch
- formula- skills to write news
Unit 3 Understanding the structure and construction of news
- Organising a news story, 5W's and IH, Inverted pyramid
- Criteria for news worthiness, principles of news selection.
- Use of archives, sources of news, use of internet
Unit 4 Different mediums-a comparison
- Language and principles of writing: Basic differences between the print, electronic and online journalism
- Citizen journalism
Unit 5- Role of Media in a Democracy
- Responsibility to Society
- Press and Democracy
- Ethics in journalism
- Contemporary debates and issues relating to media
Readings:
Bruce D. Itule and Douglas A. Anderson. News writing and reporting for today's media; McGraw Hill Publication, 2000,
M.L.. Stein, Susan Paterno& R. Christopher Burnett. News writer's Handbook: An
Introduction to Journalism: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
George Rodmann. Mass Media in a Changing World, Megraw Hill Publication, 2007.
Carole Flemming and Emma Hemmingway. An Introduction to Journalism; Vistaar Publications, 2006.
Richard Keeble. The Newspaper's Handbook; Routledge Publication, 2006
Additional readings:
Vartika Nanda: Media Laws and Ethics: Kanishka: 2018
Vartika Nanda: Radio Journalism in India: Kanishka: 2018
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