Tuesday 26 January 2021

Journalism - Mass Communication and Media

Hello Readers!

Journalism is not a new word, but it has many interesting facts to know about.

Many of you might be interested in reading newspapers and watching news on television. In print media, report writing is a part of print journalism and in audio visual media briefing is a part of video journalism. Both, print and audio visual serve the purpose of journalism in better ways. Afterall the key role of journalism is to provide unbiased review of government. It is also said that journalism and media works as watchdog of the power.

Let's see what is report writing.

Any incident can be recoded in reports, penned in journals and published in newspapers. But newspaper  editors select the news which covers the larger public interest and print those reports in papers.

Report writing roughly consists of two parts. 1. Lead writing and 2. Fact checking.

Whenever we think about breaking news, we read many interesting words which attract the reader to read the entire news report. Title and intro are so catchy and straightforward that it compels the reader to read further.

In newspaper, we might have seen a great deal of big titles and headlines. Here's an example of a Gujarati newspaper lead on a whether forecast.

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One more example from English newspaper.

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Here you'll be able to understand that this news report consist of three parts, 

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