News Reporting ll

Credit hours: 3
Instructor: Qaiser Rafiq
Lecture Timings: Thursday 10:00am-1:00pm
Class Room: 104
Email: kasier.warraich@outlook.com

Course Aims

The aims of this course are to give you an understanding of the role of the journalist
in the society, attributes of a reporter and an understanding of how to report for both
the print and broadcast media. These broad aims will be achieved by:

Introducing you to journalism, and the basic principles of news reporting.

Demonstrating how these principles can be applied.

Acquainting you with the legal and ethical rules guiding your job as a reporter.

Course Objectives

Here are the wider objectives for the course as a whole. By meeting the objectives,
you count yourself as having met the aims of the course. On successful completion of
the course, you should be able to:
Define what news is

State the roles of the journalist in the society

List the attributes of the reporter

Explain some theories of the press

Identify sources of news and how to gather news

Write news stories for the print and broadcast media

Understand Internet journalism

Know some laws guiding you job as a journalist

Differentiate between ethics and law

Discuss the code of ethics for Pakistani journalists

Discuss some ethical problems in Pakistani journalism

week wise course content

Weeks Topics

1 Role of The Journalist in Society

2 The Reporter and His Attributes Gathering the News

3 Theories of the Press

4 Print Journalism

5 News and Components of News

Writing for News Paper: The Lead
The Body

Covering Speeches, Meetings and News Conferences

6 Broadcast Journalism

7 Broadcast Style Book Preparing Broadcast Copy Interviewing

Online Journalism

8 Midterm

9 What is the Net? Computer-Assisted Journalism Legal Pitfalls

on the Internet

10 The Journalist and The Law

11 Regulation and Press Freedom Disclosure of Source of Information

Contempt of Court

12 The Ethical Journalist

13 Ethics and Journalism

14 Codes of Journalistic Ethics

15 Ethical Issues and Enforcement of Ethics in Pakistani Journalism

16 Final Term
Evaluation criteria:

Class participation & attendance 10%

Assignments 30%

Mid-Term 30%

Final Term 30%

Suggested readings

Bonder, F. F.; Davenport, J. R, & Drager, M. W. (2005). Reporting for the Mass
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Media (8 ed.). New York: Oxford University Press.

Harper, C. & the Indiana Group (1998). Journalism 2001. Madison: C

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Mercher, M. (2003). News Reporting and Writing (9 Ed.). San Francisco:
McGraw-Hill.

Moemeka, A. (2000). Reporters Handbook: An Introduction to Effective

Journalism. Kearney, USA: Morris Publishing.

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Rich, C. (1999). Writing and Reporting News: A Coaching Method, (3 Ed.).
New York: Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Stovall, J. G. (2006). Writing for the Mass Media. New York: Pearson
Education.

Uyo, A. (1987). Mass Media Messages in a Nutshell. New York: Civiletis

International

Note: Instructor can change the evaluation criteria and all the students will
be timely informed.