Unit 1 – News Processing & Editing Class Notes | MA Journalism & Mass Communication

July 17, 2018

Unit 1:Â Newsroom

17th century - english news papers started
From 19th century - the tradition of having commentaries along with the news started
News style needs to be distinct style of its usage of the language
Newsman language helps the newspaper to inform, instruct and entertain
Structure of news - simplifying it as 5Ws and 1h
Concise in nature and straight forward and presents the news briefly as a summaries
Opening paragraph is called a lead
Evolved into its own structure, style
No emotional overtones
Evaluative in nature
Supposition of facts
Suppose writing in a crime story about a murder -
Attribution to the news

Editorial - collecting, processing of news item
- Publisher:
- Editor: Heads editorial dept. - Responsible and Accountable - Complete control
  - Editorial - Page Editor
    - Editorial Writers
- Managing Editor: - Day-to-day operations
  - City Editor
    - Assistant City Editor
      - Reporters
  - State/Regional Editor
    - Assistant State/Regional Editor
      - Reports
  - Chief Copy Editor
    - Copy Editor
  - Business Editor - International News comes via Wire / News Agencies
    - Assistant Business Editor
      - Reports
  - Photo Editor
    - Photographers
  - Sports Editor
    - Assistant Sports Editor
      - Reporters
  - Graphics Editor
    - Graphic Reporters/artists
  - Lifestyle Editor
    - Assistant Lifestyle Editor
      - Reporters
  - Design Editor
    - Layout Editor
Business
- Advertising Dept.: Display Ads and Classifieds (Series of Ads)
- Production Dept.: Printing, Machinery, Skilled people, Schedule printing on time, quality of the newspaper - improving the printing quality, etc.
- Circulation Dept.: Distribution and delivery of the newspaper - news agencies - subscription-based or single copy sales - 20-40% of the revenue comes from the circulation department - delivery trucks
- Administrative Dept.:Â Operations, purchasing, day-to-day routine activities of maintenance, storage, coordination, human resources, security, public relations, etc.