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JOURNALIST
1. What is journalism?
2. What makes journalism different than other
forms of communication?
3. What does a journalist do?
4. What is the purpose of journalism?
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1. What is journalism?
- Journalism is the activity of gathering, assessing,
creating, and presenting news and information. It
is also the product of these activities.
- Journalism can be distinguished from other
activities and products by certain identifiable
characteristics and practices.
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2. What makes journalism different than other forms of
communication?
That value flows from its purpose, to provide people
with verified information they can use to make better
decisions, and its practices, the most important of which
is a systematic process – a discipline of verification – that
journalists use to find not just the facts, but also the
“truth about the facts.”
5. Journalism can be produced by anyone. At the same time, merely engaging in journalistic-like
activity – snapping a cell-phone picture at the scene of a fire or creating a blog site for news and
comment – does not by itself produce a journalistic product. Though it can and sometimes does,
there is a distinction between the act of journalism and the end result.
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3. What does a journalist do?
The journalist places the public good above all else and
uses certain methods – the foundation of which is a
discipline of verification – to gather and assess what he
or she finds.
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4. What is the purpose of journalism?
“The purpose of journalism,” write Bill Kovach and Tom
Rosenstiel in The Elements of Journalism, “is not
defined by technology, nor by journalists or the
techniques they employ.” Rather, “the principles and
purpose of journalism are defined by something more
basic: the function news plays in the lives of people.”
JOURNALIST
8. The purpose of journalism is thus to provide citizens
with the information they need to make the best
possible decisions about their lives, their communities,
their societies, and their governments.
9. Q1. Is there a recent news story that you read or saw on TV that you felt was a bad or incorrect
piece of journalism? what is it about?
- Chose an detailed news story
- Analyze the story by 5W+H and 5 key questions analyzing message media
- Present your view about the news story
Q2. Is there a recent news story that you read or saw on TV that you felt was a very good piece of
journalism? what is it about?
- Chose an detailed news story
- Analyze the story by 5W+H and 5 key questions analyzing message media
- Present your view about the news story
Prepare for the next Session?
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10. Content of the Course
Chapt 01: Media Literacy
Chapt 02: Types of Media
Chapt 03: Journalisim & Mass Com
Chapt 04: Becoming a Journalist
Chapt 05: News - Next week
Chapt 06: Interviewing & Researching
Chapt 07: Reporter
Chapt 08: Features
Chapt 09: Editing
Chapt 10: Headline - Title
Chapt 11: Backgrounding & Media
Course - Syllabus
Chapt 12: Newspaper
Chapt 13: Magazines, Broadcasting journalism
Chapt 14: Online Newspaper
Chapt 15: Photojournalist
Chapt 16: Media Bias
Chapt 17: Multimedia
Chapt 18: Media in Today’s world
Chapt 19: Journalism present and future
Chapt 20: Media Law and Ethics
Chapt 21: Mass communication
Chapt 22: Professional Codes of Ethics in Public Relations
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