Unit 1: Newsroom
Introduction
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17th century – english news papers started
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From 19th century – the tradition of having commentaries along with the news started
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News style needs to be distinct style of its usage of the language
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Newsman language helps the newspaper to inform, instruct and entertain
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Structure of news – simplifying it as 5Ws and 1h
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Concise in nature and straight forward and presents the news briefly as a summaries
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Opening paragraph is called a lead
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Evolved into its own structure, style
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No emotional overtones
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Evaluative in nature
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Supposition of facts
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Suppose writing in a crime story about a murder –
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Attribution to the news
Organizational Structure of a Newspaper
- Editorial – collecting, processing of news item
- Publisher:
- Editor: Heads editorial dept. – Responsible and Accountable – Complete control
- Editorial – Page Editor
- Editorial Writers
- Editorial – Page Editor
- Managing Editor: – Day-to-day operations
- City Editor
- Assistant City Editor
- Reporters
- Assistant City Editor
- State/Regional Editor
- Assistant State/Regional Editor
- Reports
- Assistant State/Regional Editor
- Chief Copy Editor
- Copy Editor
- Business Editor – International News comes via Wire / News Agencies
- Assistant Business Editor
- Reports
- Assistant Business Editor
- Photo Editor
- Photographers
- Sports Editor
- Assistant Sports Editor
- Reporters
- Assistant Sports Editor
- Graphics Editor
- Graphic Reporters/artists
- Lifestyle Editor
- Assistant Lifestyle Editor
- Reporters
- Assistant Lifestyle Editor
- Design Editor
- Layout Editor
- City 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.: Operations, purchasing, day-to-day routine activities of maintenance, storage, coordination, human resources, security, public relations, etc.
Editorial room
Functions of news editor and sub-editor