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Print Journalism Course Overview

This document provides an overview of the course "Print Journalism" which is worth 5 credit units. Module I focuses on introducing key concepts like the definition and scope of journalism, the roles and responsibilities of journalists, and characteristics of print media. It also includes a brief history of the newspaper industry in India and worldwide. The module outlines changing trends in the newspaper industry from post-Independence to post-Globalization and identifies sources of innovation in journalism like new technologies, citizen journalism, and reaching remote audiences.

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Print Journalism Course Overview

This document provides an overview of the course "Print Journalism" which is worth 5 credit units. Module I focuses on introducing key concepts like the definition and scope of journalism, the roles and responsibilities of journalists, and characteristics of print media. It also includes a brief history of the newspaper industry in India and worldwide. The module outlines changing trends in the newspaper industry from post-Independence to post-Globalization and identifies sources of innovation in journalism like new technologies, citizen journalism, and reaching remote audiences.

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Course Title: Print Journalism

Credit Units: 5 (L-3, SW-4)


Course Level: UG
Course Code: JMC118

Module I: Introduction (15% Weightage with no PSDA)


1. Definition, Nature and Scope of Journalism – Qualifications, Duties and Responsibilities
of Journalists – Journalism as a profession – Characteristics of Mass Media, Print
Media Newspaper & Magazine

This topic is very specific, so there won’t be any problem for the faculty to decide as what to
teach

2. Journalistic Terminologies

We can focus on the below terminologies only, as these are the most common ones:
Add, Assignment, Attribution, Banner, B copy, Beat, Break, Bright, Bulldog, Byline, Cold type,
correspondent, Crony journalism, Crop, Cut, Cutline, Dateline, Enterprise copy, Exclusive,
Feature, File, Flag, Folo, Futures calendar, Graf, Guild, Handout, Hard news, HFR, Insert,
Investigative reporting, Jump, Kill, Lead, Localize, LTK, Makeup, Masthead, Morgue, News
hole, Off-the-record, Op-ed page, Overnight, Pool, Press release, Puff piece or puffery, Roundup,
Rowback, Running story, Sell, Shirttail, Sidebar, Situation, Slant, Source, Split page, Stringer,
Tight, Tip, Verification, Wire services

3. Brief History & evolution of Newspaper Industry in India, worldwide

For history of newspaper industry in India, this link provides sufficient information -
[Link]
1496304408-1

For history of newspaper industry in worldwide, this link is useful -


[Link]
industry-history

4. Changing Trends of Newspaper Industry from Post-Independence to Post Globalization

There are two links, which summarizes the main points, in this topic -
[Link] and
[Link]

5. Sources of Innovation

We can stick to below points:


 With content now available, it’s easier for everyone to produce it via mobile media
devices
 New electronic media and print
 Technological boom resulted in prosumer culture
 Citizen journalism
 Creativity using softwares
 Remote masses are now reachable with the use of various technology and mobile devices

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