The document provides an overview of key concepts in journalism, including types of sources, roles in newsrooms, and headline writing. It discusses conventional sources like press conferences and books, as well as modern sources like social media. It also outlines roles like news editors, sub-editors, and copy editors. Caption writing guidelines emphasize using present tense and avoiding unnecessary words. Headline styles include banners, direct/indirect, news, how-to, question, and command formats.

1. *JOURNALISM*
Reporting

2. *Caption writing*
• 1.Do not begin with the words a an or the.
• 2.Use present tense to describe action in a
photo.
• 3.Do not begin a caption with names.
• 4.”Above” and “pictured here” are
unnecessary.
• Captions should not repeat information
contained in the lead.

3. *Cartoons*
•Editorial cartoon: An
editorial cartoon of
Andrew Johnson and
Abraham Lincoln, 1865,
entitled “the” rail splitter at
work repairing the union”.

4. *Source *
• In journalism a source is a
person, publication or other
record or document that gives
timely information. Source is
also called a point from where
something is derived or
obtained.

5. *Types of source*
• We can divide the sources in
two categories.
• Conventional sources.
• Modern sources

6. *Conventional sources*
• Press conferences.
• Budget
• Sports
• Books
• Airports
• Sea
• Roads
• Travel

7. *Modern source*
• Friends
• Family issues
• Animals and pets
• Shopping
• Fashion
• Farming
• Diary and club +entertainment

8. *Sources in newsroom*
• Newsroom itself is also an important
source of news.
• Low dictionaries and legal encyclopedia
can also be termed as sources of
information.
• Digests of cases, freedom of information
act and state information act can also be
good source of information.

9. *Meet the press*
• Meet the press is a weekly
American television
news/interview program
that is broadcast on NBC.

10. *News agency*
• A news agency is an organization
that gathers news reports and
sells them to subscribing news
organization, such as newspaper,
magazines and radio and
television broadcasters.

11. AMERICAN BROADCASTING
COMPANY
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED
PRESS
*International news
agencies*

12. *Types of interviews*
• Informal, conversational
interview
• General interview guide approach
• Standardized, open-ended
interview
• Closed, fixed-response interview

13. *Reporting*
• Reporting is just a genre of writing,
alongside essays and stories and bloggers
most certainly fall into that genre.
• 1.Interviews, research
• 2.Assemble a story
• 3.Fact- checking and editing
• 4.Publishing

14. *Types of reporting*
• General reporting
• Political reporting
• Environment reporting
• Religious reporting
• Speech reporting
• Cultural reporting
• Sports reporting

15. *News editor*
• The news editor is one of the
most important persons who
plan a daily newspaper. His
role in any newspaper office –
whether it be weekly or daily –
is all pervading.

16. *Sub editor*
• The editor’s job is one of the
most important in journalism.
The editor takes on the
responsibilities of the
publication. An editor assumes
the responsibility of making
that collaboration work.

17. *Editor*
• Editor a person who has
some responsibility for the
news organization and how it
function; editor are in charge
of the process of journalism.

18. *Copy editor*
• Copyeditor a person charged with
checking the writing that
reporters and other editors
produced; these people must
have a wide range of knowledge
as well as an expertise in how the
language is used.

19. *Newspaper headlines*
• Headline this is a word or phrase
in large and bold font at the top
a news story or an article. The
main purpose of a headline is to
grab the reader’s attention and
make the reader want to read the
article or news story.

20. *Types of headline*
• Banner: Headline across or near the top
of all or most of a newspaper page.
• The direct headline
• The indirect headline
• The news headline
• The how to headline
• The question headline
• The command headline