Author: newswriters

Archana Kumari |We have discussed how vast the arena of development is. So it is not easy for a journalist to handle all the areas of development. Also if a reporter wants to be established as a good journalist, he should try to specialize in a particular area of his beat. There is a wide spectrum of development journalism from agriculture, health, social, industrial, environment, women’s and child welfare to education, culture, customs etc. one can specialize in any stream of these or more than one stream. It will help him to grow as a journalistThe concept of development journalism…

Pradeep Nair and Sandeep SharmaIn the wake of the social media, the political-public sphere is broadening. The scope of feedback from the public directly to their representatives has set a new phase in public opinion and policy formations. Social media platforms have arguably enabled the public to set the agenda for their representatives by pressing like button on their facebook updates, sharing and commenting on these updates. Communication scholars and political scientists have termed this phenomenon as ‘reverse agenda-setting’. This commentary attempts to explore and analyse how the politicians and policy-makers are managing their social media platforms, especially facebook, and…

Prof. Devesh KishoreMakhanlal Chaturvedi University of journalism, Bhopal, Research Department, Emeritus“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” – Albert EinsteinLEARNING OBJECTIVESAfter having studied this chapter you should be able to :Define research and explain its meaning;Describe the process of research;Explain qualitative and quantitative research and its steps;Discuss its scope in effective media communication;Know the process, effect and impact research.In our everyday activities we loosely use the term ‘Research’. Knowingly or unknowingly you are involved in research when you are deciding what to ‘have’ or not to ‘have’. And if someone…

Ramon Lobato (RMIT University)ramon.lobato@rmit.edu.auForthcoming in Television and New MediaApril 2017ABSTRACT This article considers how established methodologies for researching television distribution can be adapted for subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services. Specifically, I identify a number of critical questions – some old, some new – that can be investigated by looking closely at SVOD catalogs in different countries. Using Netflix as an example, and drawing parallels with earlier studies of broadcast and cinema schedules, I ask what Netflix’s international catalogs can tell us about content diversity within streaming services, and how this can be connected to longer traditions of debate about the direction…

What to avoid when reporting conflict and abuse?Reporting conflict and abuse is complex. Often the facts are not revealed in a way that offers the level of understanding the situation demands. The journalist needs to be sensitive, have an understanding of history, be aware of cultural issues, and put people before the story. Here are 10 tips for reporting conflict and abuse.1: Don’t write in clichés“The Heart of Darkness” is the title of a book by Joseph Conrad written in the early part of the 20th Century about a trip up the River Congo. It does not need to feature…

Vijay Lokapally |Sport is about celebration and reporting human endeavour and achievement, the failures and is appointments too, with absolute understanding. A reporter must bear in mind the hard work put in by sports persons. When judging his/her performance, the reporter must highlight the effort of the sport persons with objectivity paramount. Sometimes, even the best does not help. It is here that the reporter’s calibre and reading of the game comes into play.The late R. Sriman, a much-respected writer, told me once that in cricket it is quite possible that we criticise a fielder for having dropped a skier…

An idea is an angle about a subject that you believe will interest the readers of your newspaper. Without new ideas the editorial pages would be pretty dull. But where do ideas come from? And how do you find them?When you are lucky, an idea can sometimes find you. But more often you have to search for ideas. This sounds difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Every writer has their own way of developing ideas. The longer you work for a particular newspaper, the more attuned you will become to the type of ideas that will interest your readers.By…

Pradeep Nair and Sandeep Sharma |“A University is a place … where students come from every quarter for every kind of knowledge; … a place for the communication and circulation of thought … It is a place where inquiry is pushed forward … discoveries verified and perfected, and … error exposed, by the collision of mind with mind, and knowledge with knowledge. … Thus is created a pure and clear atmosphere of thought, which the student also breathes”.  John Henry Newman, 1854, The Idea of a UniversityJohn Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University is a classic work on university…

By Kalinga SeneviratneIn January 2003, French Communications Professor Ignacio Ramonet told an audience of over 5,000 young people, mainly from Latin America, attending the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in Brazil that Corporations now own and produce not only traditional media, but everything which we call culture and communication. They are also involved in leisure, pop music, cinema and sports. They have no objective of being the ‘fourth estate’ to protect the citizenry from abuse of power by governments. “They have come together as a power,” he argued. “The fourth power (estate) is now exploiting and oppressing the populations…

 COVID–19 has intensified concerns about misinformation. Here’s what our past research says about these issuesDr. J. Scott Brennen & Professor Rasmus Kleis NielsenThe production and the spread of misinformation have become major concerns for scholars, policy makers, and commentators across the world.As the outbreak unfolds, here are seven findings on the scope of information disorder worldwideUncertainty and controversy around the COVID–19 pandemic has intensified the debate about misinformation in the last few weeks. “We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic”, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. We don’t have new data on how the outbreak is changing…