Print Journalism- EDITING. EDITING DEFINED MEANING OF EDITING EDITING INCLUDES * Deciding the length of item, * The nature of item, * Display of item, * Time taken in editing. * Process of editing. * Arranging for tools of editing.* Deciding what will and what will not be published. * Making the selected stories palatable and presentable. Shaping it to project the publication's policies and philosophies. EDITING : SOUL OF JOURNALISM

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Print Journalism II- 24203
PRINT JOURNALISM II
By: Ayushi Sachdeva
Assistant Professor

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INTRODUCTION
Whatever one sees and reads in
newspapers, magazines, or any
other periodicals, isn’t , exactly what
was written by the reporter for the first
time. The first draft goes a number of
changes, before being presented in the
newspaper.

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EDITING
Editing means preparing a piece of writing for publication, it includes
selection of the copy, taking out grammatical corrections, improving the
expression, checking the facts and figures, adjusting the length, deciding
the display or placement, putting the headline and so many other things .
Editing is the process of selecting an preparing written , visual , audible
and film media used to convey information
The editing process can involve correction, condensation, organization, and
many other modifications performed with an intention of producing a
correct, consistent, accurate and complete work

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EDITING DEFINED
• Editing is a multifarious job which is very difficult to define ,
it includes selection of a copy taking out grammatical
corrections ,improving the expressions , checking the facts and
figures , adjusting the length, deciding the display and
placement of headline so many other things which make it a
perfect copy.
• An editor checks for completeness, accuracy, consistency,
word choice, writing style and spelling errors. While a writer
may accept, negotiate or reject individual edits, the efforts of
an editor always enhance the final product.

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CONTD..
• Editing is a stage of writing process in which a writer strives to
improve the news item by corrective errors and by making
words and sentences more precise and effective.
• The selection and correction of a news story is called Editing.
Editing is putting a news story in a required shape and size.
• Editing involves minor changes and minor revision. A word
change, sentence shortened, a long word replaced with simpler
one.

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MEANING OF EDITING
Editing is a process by which a text, audio, video,
image, or any other material is prepared for final
presentation through correction, condensation,
organisation, and modification.

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• It means preparing a written piece for any
publication, that has originally been written by
someone else.
• Editing can also mean doing the work of
planning and directing the publication.

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EDITING INCLUDES
.* Deciding the length of item,
* The nature of item,
* Display of item,
* Time taken in editing.
* Process of editing.
* Arranging for tools of editing.
* Deciding what will and what will not be published.
* Making the selected stories palatable and presentable.
• Shaping it to project the publication's policies and
philosophies.

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EDITING : SOUL OF JOURNALISM
Editing is done with specific motives of checking and improving the
Punctuation, Spelling, Sentence Structure, Subject and Verb Agreement,
Proper Word Use, Clarity, Point of View, Dialogue, Flow, and Format.
In simpler terms, editing is done to improve news stories grammatically,
structurally, style-wise, factually, and in terms of readability.
Sub editors or copy editors do the editing. It is often thought that
editors do editing. No, the editor does not do editing.
The sub-editor is the unsung craftsman who works hard to improve
the write-ups of the reporters. And the reporters’ names appear with the
news stories. Sub editors do not get any credit for their hard work.
Editing, or sub editing, as it is popularly known, includes many
activities.
These are arranging, reducing, adding, translating, selecting, checking
and adapting of news and other materials for publication.

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SUGGESTED READINGS
 A. Saxena Fundamentals of Reporting & Editing
 M V Kamath Modern Journalism
 M L Stein and Susan F. Peterno The News Writers’ Handbook
 George A Hough News Writing
 Jan R. Hakemulder, Ray Ac de Jonge, News Reporting and Editing
P.P. Singh
 M K Joseph Basic Source Material for News Writing
 Wainwright David Journalism made Simple,
 Hohnberg John The Professional Journalist

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