Cour Course se Code Code:: 5625 5625 Assi Assign gnme ment nt:: 01 Ro Roll ll#:A #:AL5 L538 38518 518 Fakhar Naeed !uestion#:01
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Man can subsist without newspaper but no newspaper can subsist without without news. News is the spinal cord of journalism journalism.. The basic assumption of journalism is the collection, presentation and interpretation of news which is meant to inform the people about new and novel.
"F$N$%$&N &F N'( News News has has been been den dened ed dier dierent ently ly by dier dierent ent exper experts ts.. Some of the denitions denition s are iven below! ". News is anythin anythin out of the the ordinary ordinary #. News is the the unusual unusual picture picture of life. $. News is anythin anythin that people tal% tal% about& the the more it excites excites the reater its value. , '. News comprises comprises all curren currentt activities activities which are are of eneral human interest and the best news is that which interests most of the reader(. ). *nythin *nythin that enouh enouh people want to read read is news provided provided it does not violate the canons of ood taste and the law of libel. +. News is li%e li%e a hot ca%e ca%e comin straiht from from oven. . News is the report report of an event event that is fresh, fresh, unusual unusual and which is interestin to a reater number of people. -rom these denitions we are now clear to have understood the elements of news. et/s see what these are. &)*e+tiit, News is the factual report of an event. 0hat the report reporter er sees is supposed supposed to report. report. 1bjectivity 1bjecti vity means t o r e p or or t t h e f a ct c t s e x a ct c t l y t h e s am am e w a y a s t h ey ey o cc c c ur u r r e d. d . 2 t oe oe s a a a in i n st s t o bj b j ec e c ti t i vi v i ty ty i f t he he r e po p o rt r t er er adds s o me th i n f ro m his own imaination. 3omment4suestion or proposal is not the tas% of a news reporter. These are considered riht in a column, editorial, etc. 2n these formats of journalistic writins t h e w r i t e r c a n p ro v i d e i n 5 d e p t h a n d b a c % ro u n d information. 2n simplest words objectivity means just to report the tip of the iceber and leave the rest to analyt ical a nd n d i n5 n5 de de pt pt h r e p or or ti ti n n . 2 t w i ll ll n o t b e a n o bj bj ec ec t i ve ve reportin if the reporter wants to anle, slant or shade the news.
Con+ise and Clear
There is a famous sentence about writin a news story ! 67revity and simplicity are the soul of journ alism.6 8ourn alism has ot a special lanuae 5 journ alistic l an u a e 5 wh ic h i s 9 ui te di ere nt f ro m a ll o th er lanuaes and particularly from the literature. 8ourn alistic lanuae is simple, easy, concise and clear. 2ts basic aim is to convey the messae in the simplest way to the masses because every person in the masses is not hihly educated. There is an appro ved writin style of achievin concisi on and brevity. 0hich is cal led :2nverted p yr am id s ty le o f n ew s; < T hi s n ew s w ri ti n s ty le h as been explained in =nit No. # of this course.
N'( -AL.( There are various factors that 9ualify an event to be a news story. et/s discu ss these factors. 1/ %im el ine ss Freshn ess Ti me factor plays an important ro le in the eectiveness of a news story. Nobody li%es to read an outdated story, even if it is very important. News is just li%e a perishable commodity havin a very short life. 0e can accommodate a past time story in literature, drama, feature, etc.. but it does not wor% in news. 8ournalism/s famous sloan is that 6Today news is today6>
2/ ro im it, o r Near nes s The importance of a news re atly depends on the place of its oriin. ?roximity in journalism does not only refer to eoraphical nearness but interest of nearness is well. -or examples, 2mran @han/s marriae too% place in =.@. but the story is .&iore interestin for the people of this part of the world. *n earth9ua%e in 3hina %illin #AA people will be less important in our newspapers than the story of earth9ua%e %illin $A persons in ?a%istan 3/ r om in en +e Be ad er s h av e i nt ere st i n n am es o f p er so ns w it h w ho m t he y a re f am il ia r. T he b i e r t he p er so na li ty
i nv ol ve d i n t he e ve nt, t he re at er i ts n ew s v al ue . Stories of lm stars, players, politicianCs philosophers and poets etc., have reater news value.
/ 4a gn it ud e The event re latin to re ater loss of life, damae o r n at ur al d is as te r c re at es i nt ere st f or t he re ad er s. Dxample! * story of re resultin in the death of o ne p er so n w il l h av e l es s i mp ac t t ha n t he s to ry o f r e resultin in the death of "AA people. 5/ Co n i+ t Dverybody ta%es interest in confrontation amon people, nations and roups. The hihest form of conEict is war and no war story fails to create interest for the readers. 6/ &dd it, .nu sua lne ss * do bites a common man is not a news but if a man bites a do it is a reat news because it is unusual. The more the event is unusual the reater its value. / Co ns e7ue n+ e The news story that a ects some chane in the life o f p eo pl e w il l h av e re at v al ue . -o r ex am pl e, n ew s about budet, rise in petrol price, electricity rates and increase in salary, etc. are read with reat interest by people. 8/ u man i nteres t Fuman interest stories deal with usual events but usually these stories involve fellow feelin, emotion of brotherhood and humanness. 0hen a person reads about joy or sorrow of others he mentally associates himself with them. Dxample! * story of a child rescued by a reman as a seven5storey buildin cauht re has reater valu e than the story of the complete loss of the buildin.
