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Journalism Syllabus JOURNALISM SYLLABUS I SEMESTER: REPORTING FOR PRINT Theory: 4 Hours/week Marks: 70 Practical: 2 Hours/week CIA : 30 Practical: 50 Unit I: Introduction to Communication 5 hours Definition, Process , Purpose, Principles Kinds: Intra personal, Interpersonal, Group, Organizational, Mass, Mass-line, Interactive Models of Communication: Linear and Non-linear, Western and Indian Unit II: Introduction to Print Medium 10 hours A brief history of the Press in India Major newspaper and magazine organizations: An analysis of major publications Unit III: Introduction to news writing 15 hours News: Definition, types, news value, techniques of newsgathering, interviewing skills, attribution, problem of planted stories Sources of News: Traditional Sources, Media Sources, Cross Media Sources including Radio, TV and internet, ethical issues regarding sources, Gate-keeping and validation of news sources. Structure of a news report: Types of leads: inverted pyramid style, hour glass style and nut graph Covering beats, press conferences, speech reports seminars, press releases Reporting for a news agency, specialized reporting like investigative journalism, etc. Unit IV: Introduction to feature writing 10 hours Definition, structure, characteristics, types Process: Ideas and research, tools and techniques Kinds of features: Profiles; middles, columns, human interest stories, travel writing, opinion pieces and editorials; book reviews, movie reviews, music reviews, narrative writing Magazine reporting: Current trends, style and future Unit V: Challenges and Trends 10 hours Responsibilities of a reporter and challenges: Professionalism, constraints on objectivity, influence of PR and spin doctors, intra-organizational controls; owner and editor’s relationship. Trends in journalism: Paid news, fake news, post-truth, AI in journalism etc PRACTICAL COMPONENT 26 hours Practical component: Photo-essay Reading List: 1. Mass Communication: A Critical analysis, Keval J Kumar 2. Professional Journalism, M V Kamat 3. Theory and Practice of Journalism, B N Ahuja 4. Professional Journalist, John Hohenberg 5. Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan 6. Journalism in India,Nadig Krishnamurthy, Mysore University Press II SEMESTER: EDITING AND DESIGN Theory: 4 Hours/week Marks: 70 Practical: 2 Hours/week CIA : 30 Practical: 50 Unit I: Introduction to editing 5 hours Newsroom hierarchy and organization: Roles and responsibilities of the sub-editor, chief sub-editor, news-editor and editor Editing: Need and purpose Unit II: The editing process: Grammar 15 hours Sentences and their structure, Subject verb agreement; agreement of nouns and pronouns, Tense in news writing, Negative and double negative expressions, Adjectives, modifiers, split infinitive, Gerunds and verbs, Punctuation, Paraphrasing, Transition devices in news writing, Editing and proof reading symbols Unit III: The editing process: Content 15 hours Attributions and identification of news sources, Tight writing, rewriting, checking facts, condensing stories, slanting and localising news, handling wire and correspondents copy Editing/ revising press releases and handouts Editing opinion pieces/ columns and readers’ letters Style sheets and house styles Magazine editing Unit IV: Headlines and captions 5 hours Headlines: Kinds, functions Writing headlines and sub-heads Writing captions Unit V: Fundamentals of newspaper design 10 hours Typography: types and uses of fonts, white spaces, character count Layout: Importance, types; elements, contemporary styles vs traditional styles Technicalities: Paper sizes, grids, margins, columns, left and right flush, centering, justification, rulers, scaling, page numbering, texture, colour Selection and use of photographs: Dos and don’ts Introduction to DTP software: Adobe Indesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator PRACTICAL COMPONENT 26 hours Lab journal Reading List: 1. Acques Barzum 2002. Simple & Direct, London Harpar And Row 2. John Ostnous 2004 Better Paragraphs, London Harper And Row 3. Basket, Scissors And Brooks (Eds), 2002.Book Of Art Editing, London,Harper And Row. 4. Joseph 2002.Outlines Of Editing, New Delhi. Amol Publication. 5. M V Desai & Sevanti Nainan 1996. Beyond Those Headlines, 6. Jeorge 1998.TJS, Editing, A Hand Book For Journalist, New Delhi IIMC. 7. Quinn 1999. Digital Sub Editing & Design, New Delhi, Sage Publication. 8. Elements of Newspaper Design: Steven E. Ames 9. Designing for Newspapers and Magazines: Chris Frost 10. Read All About It: Write and design your own newspaper!: Alice Bowsher 11. The Best of News Design, 36th edition: Society for News Design 12. Author Adobe, Adobe Photoshop: Techmedia 13. Adobe InDesign CC Classroom in a Book: Kordes Anton Kelly and Cruise John 14. Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book: Wood Brian III SEMESTER: BROADCAST JOURNALISM Theory: 4 Hours/week Marks: 70 Practical: 2 Hours/week CIA : 30 Practical: 50 Unit 1: Radio in India 5 hours A brief history of radio in India Types of programmes on radio Impact of radio on society Unit 2: Radio Production 10 hours Principles of writing for radio Script-writing basics: news, drama, documentary Basics of sound Microphone, types Unit 3: Television in India 5 hours Development of television in India Types of programmes on television and scheduling Impact of television on society Unit 4: Introduction to television production 15 hours Principles of writing for television Recent concepts: Tyranny of distance, CNN effect, Al Jazeera effect, Media Circus, Missing white woman syndrome, Feiler Faster Thesis, Trial by Media Basics of light, types of lighting Lighting equipment Camera: Types, working Use of computer-generated graphics Unit 5: Production Process 10 hours Pre-production: ideation, research and planning, location scouting Production: Shot composition, shot breakdown: voiceovers, narration, sound effects; floor manager, set design Post-production: Linear and non-linear editing, principles of editing Unit 6: Laws related to electronic media 5 hours Prasara Bharati Act Cable Network Act PRACTICAL COMPONENT 26 hours News Capsule Reading List: 1. Herbert Zettle, Handbook of Television Production. 2. Frederich Shook, Television Field Production and Reporting. 3. Rudy Bretz, Techniques of TV Production, Focal Press 4. Gerald Millerson, Techniques of Video Production. 5. Effective TV Productions by Gerald Millerson, Focal Press. 6. Gerald Millerson, Video Camera Techniques. 7. David Lusted and Christine Geraghty, The Television Studies Book. 8. Jonathan Bignell, An Introduction to Television Studies, Routledge 2007. IV SEMESTER: NEW MEDIA Theory: 4 Hours/week Marks: 70 Practical: 2 Hours/week CIA : 30 Practical: 50 Unit I: Introduction to new media 10 hours Brief history and evolution of the internet Internet as a medium of communication New media terminologies: websites and portals; cyber space, cyber culture, cyber journalism, digital divide, blogs, blogosphere, vlog, webisodes, webinars, podcasts, search engines and search engine optimization, user-generated content, content curation, hits, page views, users, unique users, sessions, contextual advertising Unit II: Characteristics of online journalism 15 hours Immediacy, interactivity and universality Language and style of online journalism News determinants in cyberspace Dos and don'ts of internet reporting Ethical issues in online journalism: obscenity and privacy, copyright, cyber laws, IT Act A look at online sites of leading media organizations Unit III: Conceptualizing websites 10 hours Components of a website Different types of websites Web layout: Design, layout, colour, graphics, visual information Writing for online medium: Interactivity of form and content in new media, Linear writing versus interactive writing, grammar of interactivity, multimedia storytelling, hypertext Writing copies that can be fetched by Search Engines; keyword writing How to analyze traffic of a site? Exposure to Google Analytics Unit IV: Mobile journalism and social networking 15 hours Mobile journalism: Using the mobile for stories; apps and tools for reporting; mobile-based story telling ideas and projects Smartphone photography Facebook and social media: The newsfeed of tomorrow? Twitter as a means of disseminating news. Creating handles and using Twitter to generate traffic to stories News writing for apps, robotic news and rewriting. PRACTICAL COMPONENT 26 hours A simple website and blog Reading List: 1. Craig, Richard.: Online journalism: reporting, writing and editing for new media. Belmont: Thomson/Wadsworth. 2. Nick, Heap Ray & Thomas Geoff: Information technology & society. New Delhi: Sage Publications. 3. Polonsky, Brett.: Official Microsoft Frontpage 2000 book. Washington: Microsoft Press 4. Snellned, Temple Bob & Clork T.Michoel: Internet and web basics all in one. Indianapolis: Pearson Educations. 5. Srivastava, Chetan.: Fundamentals of information technology. New Delhi: Kalyani Publishers 6. Satyanarayana, R., Information Technology and its facets, Delhi, Manak 2005. 7. Sunder, R., Computers Today Ed.2, John Wiley, 2000. 8. Benedikt, M., Cyberspace: First steps, ed. Cambridge, MA. MIT Press. 1991. 9. Chapman and Chapman, Digital Multi media, Wiley Publication. SEMESTER V: CORE: GEOPOLITICAL ISSUES Theory: 3 Hours/week Marks: 70 Practical: 2 Hours/week CIA : 30 Practical: 50 Unit 1: Political Forms 10 hours Introduction to Geopolitics: real politics vs. ideologies, political realism, power politics, soft power, hard power, techniques of power politics
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