04-09-2017, 02:21 AM
QUESTION PAPERS:-
SYLLABUS:-
Unit I [News]
1. What is Journalism?
2. Journalism as Fourth Estate
3. Who is a Journalist?
4. Role and responsibilities of a Journalist
5. What is News?
6. Elements of News
7. News Values -Timeliness, Proximity, Size, Importance, Conflict, Human interest, Novelty
8. Types of News
9. News Sources: types; credibility and protection
10. News versus Information, Hard vs. Soft News
11. Difference between article, news, feature, backgrounder, editorial.
Unit II [News Writing]
1. Inverted Pyramid style of news writing-Why & How
2. Various types of leads/intros
3. Headline writing: Types & Functions
4. The WHAT formula for news writing
5. 5Ws and 1H of news writing
6. Good (The exact, apt, simple, unambiguous words), Bad (redundancies jargons, verbosities), Ugly of news writing.
Unit III [News Reporting]
1. What is news reporting?
2. Various types of reporting (Objective, Interpretative, Investigative, In-depth, straight)
3. Reporting for Newspapers, News Agencies and Magazines.
4. Pitfalls and problems in reporting-attribution, off-the-record, embargo
Unit IV [Reporter]
1. Reporters: Qualities and Responsibilities
2. Set up and functions of a city reporting room in a daily and bureau
3. Reporting staff: News Bureau, Bureau Chief, Chief Reporter, Correspondent, Stringers, and freelancer.
4. Reporting for different beats
SYLLABUS:-
Unit I [News]
1. What is Journalism?
2. Journalism as Fourth Estate
3. Who is a Journalist?
4. Role and responsibilities of a Journalist
5. What is News?
6. Elements of News
7. News Values -Timeliness, Proximity, Size, Importance, Conflict, Human interest, Novelty
8. Types of News
9. News Sources: types; credibility and protection
10. News versus Information, Hard vs. Soft News
11. Difference between article, news, feature, backgrounder, editorial.
Unit II [News Writing]
1. Inverted Pyramid style of news writing-Why & How
2. Various types of leads/intros
3. Headline writing: Types & Functions
4. The WHAT formula for news writing
5. 5Ws and 1H of news writing
6. Good (The exact, apt, simple, unambiguous words), Bad (redundancies jargons, verbosities), Ugly of news writing.
Unit III [News Reporting]
1. What is news reporting?
2. Various types of reporting (Objective, Interpretative, Investigative, In-depth, straight)
3. Reporting for Newspapers, News Agencies and Magazines.
4. Pitfalls and problems in reporting-attribution, off-the-record, embargo
Unit IV [Reporter]
1. Reporters: Qualities and Responsibilities
2. Set up and functions of a city reporting room in a daily and bureau
3. Reporting staff: News Bureau, Bureau Chief, Chief Reporter, Correspondent, Stringers, and freelancer.
4. Reporting for different beats