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BLOCK 3 : SPECIALISED REPORTING
Unit 1 Features and Interviews

Unit 2 Reporting Politics, Economy, Sports, Development and Governance,

Crime, Disasters
Unit 3 Investigative Reporting

Unit 4 Social Media as a Source for Stories, Citizen Journalism

BLOCK 4 : WRITING FOR MEDIA
Unit 1 Language and Style of Journalism for Various Print and Broadcast Media
Unit 2 Language and Style of Journalism in Convergent Formats (Online)
Unit 3 Legal and Ethical Framework of Reporting and Editing
Unit 4 Leads, Body and Conclusion (Print, Tv, Radio and Online)

BLOCK 5 : NEWS EDITING
Unit 1 Principles of Editing
Unit 2 Workflow of an Editorial Section in a Newspaper
Unit 3 Packaging, Value Addition and Other Roles of a News Desk
Unit 4 Writing Effective Leads, Editorials and Columns, Editing Exercises

BLOCK 6 : HEADLINING AND PAGE LAYOUT
Unit 1 Types and Functions of Headlines
Unit 2 Writing Effective Headlines
Unit 3 Writing Cutlines, Captions, Blurbs and Infographics
Unit 4 Principles of Layout and Designing
Unit 5 Pagination Softwares

References

1. Lorenz & Vivian: News Reporting and Writing
2. M V Kamath: Professional Journalism
3. Fred Fedler et al: Reporting for the Media
4. Itule & Anderson : News Writing and Reporting for Media
5. Carole Rich: Writing and Reporting News
6. Jason Whittaker: The New Media Handbook –The Cyberspace Handbook
7. Tapas Ray: Online Journalism, A Basic Text.
8. Sunil Saxena: Broadcasting News: The craft and technology of online Journalism.
9. Jason Whittaker: Web Production for writers and journalists.
10. Anna Evertt, John T. Caldwell: New Media: Theories and practice of Digitexuality.

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