presentation on types of journalism

1. TYPES OF JOURNALISM
By – Omkar Rajaram
Kudache

2. What is Journalism ?
•Journalism is the activity of gathering,
assessing, creating, and presenting news and
information. It is also the product of these
activities.

3. Types of Journalism
• Yellow Journalism
• Interpretative Journalism
• Investigative Journalism
• Developmental Journalism
• Advocacy Journalism
• Community journalism
• New journalism
• Film journalism
• Sports journalism
• Photo/Pictorial Journalism
• Citizen journalism

4. Yellow Journalism
• Yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized
news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase
circulation.
• The phrase was coined in the 1890s to describe the tactics
employed in the furious competition between two New York City
newspapers, the World and the Journal. Yellow journalism.
• William Hearst is considered the “Father of Yellow Journalism”.
• The term was coined in the mid-1890s to characterize the
sensational journalism in the circulation war between Joseph
Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York
Journal.

5. Examples of Yellow Journalism
•Spanish American War
•Samsung and Apple court case
•Ebola is Coming
•Prime Minister called a traitor

9. Interpretative Journalism
• Interpretive journalism or interpretive reporting requires a journalist to go
beyond the basic facts related to an event and provide more in-depth news
coverage.
• Interpretive journalists must have a typical awareness with and comprehension
of a subject with their work involving looking for systems, rationale and
influences that explain what they are reporting.
• Definition : "It goes beyond the basic facts of an event or topic to provide context,
analysis, and possible consequences."
- Brant Houston

10. • Book: Interpretative Reporting (1938) by Curtis Daniel MacDougall
• The 1920s the Great Depression
• Nazi threat to global stability
• In 1923, Time magazine launched as the first major publication to
provide readers with a more analytical interpretation of the news.

11. Developmental Journalism
• “a type of reporting and writing on topics related to the process of
economic development”
• social, cultural and political aspects of development
• humane development, which focuses on helping people meet their
basic needs, empowering people to articulate their concerns and
manage their development
• First coined in Press Foundation of Asia by Alan Chalkley and Juan
Mercado in 1960

13. Advocacy Journalism
• Advocacy journalism is a genre of journalism that adopts a
non-objective viewpoint, usually for some social or political
purpose.
• Corporate crime, government criticism, corruption and social
issues are the topics raised by advocacy journalism
• Crosses the line
• No balance or fairness
• Communalism Combat magazine by Javed Anand and Teesta
Setalvad.

15. Community Journalism
• This is journalism designed to serve distinct communities,
particularly small towns, suburbs or urban neighborhoods, as
well as specific communities and short term goals.
• focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small
towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news.
• Circulation is less than 50000

16. New journalism
• Emerged in the 1960s
• Name given by Tom Wolfe in 1973
• Why “ NEW JOURNALISM”- Telling story using scenes, Dialogue in full,
third person point of view, recording everyday details
• Quality coverage and vivid illustration of social conflicts
• Definition by Seymour krim , “ A free non fictional prose that uses
every resource of the best fiction.”
• Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Norman Mailer and Truman Capote are the
most prominent writers of this genre.

18. Film Journalism
• Origin – Hollywood
• Gossips about films
• Paparazzo- photographers who follow famous people around in
order to get pictures of them to sell to a newspaper or magazine
• Film magazines
• In India film journalism started from 1950

20. Sports Journalism
• Sports journalism is a form of journalism that sports on sports topics
and events.
• Deadline pressure
• Different of from other forms of journalistic writings
• More space for subjective analysis
• High quality photography
• Joseph Hoover (TOI), Suresh Menon (Freelancer), Ramchandra Guha
(sports historian)
• Cricket and Indian sports journalism

22. Photo Journalism
• Photojournalism is the process of story telling using the medium of
photography as your main story telling device. While a journalist will
use their pen and paper to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their
camera to capture the visual representation of a story
• Henri Cartier-Bresson Father Of Modern Photojournalism
• Erich Salomon, whose candid pictures of political figures were novel
in the 1930s.
• Started from mid 19th century

23. • The "Golden Age of Photojournalism“ 1930 to 1950
• 35mm Leica camera in 1925, and the first flash bulbs between 1927
and 1930, which allowed the journalist true flexibility in taking
pictures

24. Indian Photo jouralists
• Homai Vyarawalla 1930, first Indian woman Photo Journalist

25. • Raghu Rai

26. Investigative Journalism
• Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters
deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes,
political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative
journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a
report.
• Freelancers or newspaper agencies and TV news channels
• Topples with high officials
• Arun Shourie is the father of Indian investigative journalism

27. Citizen Journalism
• Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory
journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street
journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the
process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news
and information." Similarly, Courtney C
• Started in 1988 at the time of Presidential election of US

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