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By admin • August 31st, 2010

Three gay German blonde on an old Renault invitingly smiling and waving their arms while we were standing at the traffic lights in the neighboring bands.They wanted to get to know, but apparently not with us, but with a brand new Nissan Juke (live on it can be seen at the Moscow Motor Show !), [...]

The Sub-Editors The sub-editor plays a very important role in the publication of a newspaper. He is a very important member of the news paper’s staff. The quality and style of a newspaper greatly depend on the good work done by the sub-editor. It is the sub-editor who prepares the copy for the printer. Although [...]

The News Editors The news editor is a very important functionary in the organization of a newspaper. He is the real backbone of the newspaper. The news editor is responsible for doing the most important work in the publication of a newspaper. In certain ways, he can be called the number two Man in a [...]

Editing the news is a very important function in journalism. But there is a lot of ignorance among the public regarding the importance of editing the news. Some laymen may just think that the newspaper reporters simply have to gather enough news material to fill the columns of their newspapers. Some others may think that [...]

How to find a news story Now-a-days, editors are bombarded with a tremendous flow of news. The newspapers can hardly publish a very small part of the total news which they receive. A newspaper also gets copies from its own local reporters, correspondents and other sources. Then, the newspaper has also to give the local [...]

Testing a News Story When you have written a news story, test it with the following questions. If you can answer “yes” to each, you will be reasonably sure your story is a good one, provided that your base your answer upon real knowledge of what a good news story is. Reporter, like writers must [...]

The Profile of a Reporters Nose for News: A number of authorities feel that the instinct of nose for news in a journalist is generally inborn. But there are some who feel that this virtue can be inculcated by training and practice. Lord Northcliffe defined news by the following illustration: ‘if a dog bites a [...]

The Role of Reporters The reporter is one who observes the passing show in the widest sense of the word and pictures its detail for the benefit of the whole society. A reporter may be accurate, conscientious, a good citizen and take part in moulding the views of other people, but he cannot play his [...]

News Comments Commenting on the news enables readers to discover what the news may mean and what others say about it. It helps the readers to make sense of torrents of news events that all but overwhelm the average person. To read news without reading comments on it or reading comments without knowing or learning [...]

News analysis give more than, who what, when and where of hews. They typically include background information and the writer’s opinion, interpretation and predictions. A news analysis often appears in the news columns and can frequently be found on the front pages of a newspaper so that it can be distinguished from straight news. The [...]

Investigative Reporting One of the most important developments in news and information has been the increase of investigative reporting. Indeed, investigative reporters have become the modern heroes of journalism because they are uncovering too much inside information. By investigative reporting one can cover more than apparent events. The investigative reporter often makes news by going [...]

Interpretative Reporting It is essential to have the facts, but facts also need to be interpreted. Many indications from the world around us confirm the notion that straight news reporting may not always be enough. Interpretative reporting means to dig out and explain the news behind the news. The reporter goes beyond the visible facts [...]

Press Conferences/Meetings Reporting The press conference or news conference and meetings are the means of obtaining information, opinions and ideas besides the clarification of running events and stories. In a press conference a news source or personality calls together a group of reporters, after briefing the reporters the source/personality answers their questions. When it works [...]

War Reporting The coverage of war imposes major responsibilities on reporters. On the one hand, they must exercise the greatest care not to spread rumours and on the other hand, they must expose themselves to danger if necessary to determine the magnitude of war event. But whatever they do, they must always be conscious that [...]

Court/Crime Reporting Reporting crime news can be a demanding task and at times, if properly done, it even amounts to public service that perhaps can ever be deterrent to certain types of crimes. However, crime news reporting needs technical care on the part of reporter while covering his beat. A crime reporter should know what [...]

Parliament and its proceedings have always been the main interest of newspaper readers. Parliamentary reporting offers opportunities to the reporter to conduct first hand study of the practical working procedure, responsibilities, role and function of parliament, their members, different officials, the offices which they hold and their biographies besides the working of government. He/she remains [...]

Sports Reporting Sports reporting field is broad and interesting enough to challenge the finest talent. The sports coverage remains the life blood of most sports pages. More opinions and news analyses appear on these pages. Sports reports are read mostly due to their contents and style. Spots reporter should take into account all the compulsory [...]

Cultural Reporting Cultural reporting requires a reporter to cover not only individuals i.e. artists, craftsmen etc. but also to cover different cultural organizations, institutions and other events by upholding public interest. For this he/she has to dig out that how many cultural organisational setups exist in the city. The cultural reporter is actually a cultural [...]

Speech Reporting Speeches are the basic for sound stories published daily in the press. All those speeches taking place from time to time in the city are important to the participants but few are worthy of news coverage. Advance stories are also being written about speeches through which the readers are informed about the person [...]

Religious Reporting Religious news are also part of the media contents. It is one of the most sensitive beats, and demands great care and responsibility on the part of the reporter covering various religious events. However, impartiality is the only effective means to deal with this beat. The reporter has to report in fair, factual, [...]

Environment Reporting The environment affects everyday life. People, sensitive about it, demand the due coverage of environment and the factors causing pollution, etc. Therefore the environment reporting can become a human service reporting. What are the government measurements for the prevention of pollution and what is public part in creating and preventing the pollution. Nowadays [...]

Education and Research Reporting Research and education go together. Through research one can add new knowledge which in necessary for educating the nation and also for national development. The research programmes of different institutions and their findings and achievements should be reported. The education system, its merits and demerits are the main sphere of education [...]

Political Reporting Generally the coverage of a political campaign or a political personality is not sufficient. Much time and coverage needs to be given in following a candidate around and listening to the political speeches over and over again. Most of the political reporter’s time is spent while covering the purely political aspects of government [...]

Reporting News Reporting means gathering facts and presenting them objectively with all news writing skills. It is an active, creative, long and tough process of news gathering, ideas and opining collection, fact finding in order to serve the general public by informing them and enabling them to make judgement of the issues of the time. [...]

Source of News Newspaper get news, features and photos of state, national, and international interest by teletype or mail from the international and national wire services. In addition, the newspaper have full time staff reporter in many major cities. In other cities, newsmen to work on papers which are members of the network are assigned [...]

Inverted Pyramid role in Journalism Journalism instructors usually describe the organization or structure of a news story as an inverted pyramid. The journalist top-loads essential and most interesting elements of his or her story, with supporting information following in order of diminishing importance. This structure enables readers to quit reading at any point and still [...]

Terms and Structure of Journalism Journalism prose is explicit and precise, and tries not to rely on jargon. As a rule, journalists will not use a long word when a short one will do. They use subject-verb-object construction and vivid, active prose. They offer anecdotes, examples and metaphors, and the rarely depend on colorless generalizations [...]

News Style or News Writing News style or news writing is the particular prose style used for news reporting as well as in news items that air on radio and television. News style encompasses not only vocabulary and sentence structure, but also the way in which stories present the information in terms of relative importance, [...]

Hard News and Soft News Hard news is the actual report of what has happened in a simple, clear, and accurate manner. This type of news story never distorts, misrepresents or gives wrong facts. It draws no conclusions, ,makes no accusations, offers no opinions and does not indulge in any speculations. Hard news are facts [...]

Difference between Elements and Value of News A report of an event may be written concisely, objectively and a professionally sound style but even then it may not be news if it does not possess the news values. The basic difference between news values and elements is judged on the grounds that what qualities in [...]

News Values News values determine how much prominence news in given by a media outlet. In practice such decisions are made informally by editors on the basis of their experience and intuition, and analysis shows that several factors are consistently applied across a range of news organizations. In 1965, Galtung and Rung enumerated these factors. [...]

Elements of News Accuracy Facts given in the news story should be acceptable to the readers without any question. What accuracy actually means is that all statements, names. Ages, quotation, etc. must be accurate. Accuracy also means use of proper word, sentences and expressions at proper situations. You will have problem of accuracy when you [...]

Definition of News “News” developed as a special use of the plural form of “news” in the 14th century. In Middle English, the equivalent word was ‘news’. Based on the French ‘nouvelles’. It is not, as is often claimed, an acronym for north, east, west, south. News has been defined differently by different experts. Some [...]

News Writing NEWS is any new information or information on current events which is relayed by print, broadcast, internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience. The reporting and investigation of news falls within the profession of journalism. News is often reported by a variety of sources, such as newspapers, television, [...]