Reporting and Editing in Journalism
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. News reporting: 1. The concept of news. 2. Reporter: interface with environment and society. 3. The news story. 4. News gathering sources of news. 5. Press releases press notes or press statements: an sources of news. 6. Reporting speeches. 7. Reporting press Conference. 8. Reporting Parliament. 9. Various beats. 10. Interview as source of news. 11. News features: human interest and depth reporting. 12. Interpretative reporting. 13. Investigative reporting. 14. Crime reporting. 15. Government media and social responsibility. 16. Academic and miscellaneous news. II. Editing: 17. The editing jobs. 18. Newspaper and Magazine page make up. 19. Photo journalism. 20. The copy reader. 21. Improving the story. 22. What makes a story newsworthy. 23. A theory of news. 24. Press service copy. 25. The changing story. 26. Writing headlines. 27. Editing todays news. 28. The quotable quotes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.
Ever since the author started teaching Journalism at Dayanand College of Communication and Management in 1997 one of the over sixty colleges owned by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan affiliated to the Bhavans Rajendra Prasad Institute of Communication and Management Mumbai and during his participation in various occasional or sometimes regular participation at seminars conferences and in personality development programmes he realized the fluent communication apart there was strain felt by the participants students managers faculty even the office staff that stemmed from their inadequate vocabulary insufficient knowledge of grammar and thereby inability to write well. There is not dispute in saying that a Journalist must be able to converse and write. Knowledge of English language is necessary at least for interviewing the affected people and more particularly the elite and those in authority including industry and business icons even if one is working for vernacular paper or magazine.
As the media sector has since been opened up for foreign entry by permitting equity participation to the extent of 24% and this extent is going to be increased to 49% and then in the next phase to 74% and ultimately to 100% when there would be no restriction in Foreign Direct Investment under the WTO compliance. Mass Communication has taken firm roots throughout the world there are very few closed economies and authoritarian politics is still persisting but there also some change towards opening up is observed. In a democratic society information has to flow so free as air. Media is conscious of its duty to the public it has to function truly as eyes and ears of the society. As watch dog of society it has to bring wrong doings and popular defects into public notice and for corrective action on the part of the Government.
Well appreciating the need of a book on reporting and editing in simple language with Indian ethos, the authors tried to write this book to serve the media and readers and students. All important topics have been included in their own style and precisely. There is new trend to do more in the areas of interpretative and investigative journalism, therefore these topics have been included in the book. The book will be useful to the Journalism and Mass Communication students apart from those having love of reading and teachers. (jacket)
