Category: Journalism
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The Indian Education System : Features, Pros, Cons and Way forward
Why is India still one of the developing countries and what is stopping it from being a developed one? This particular question strikes me every time when I read something about India’s education system. I see India’s education system as an obstacle towards its objectives of achieving inclusive growth. The Indian Education system: Overview …
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Emergence of journalism and Overview
Journalism Introduction The gathering of information and report news was prevalent centuries back. The advent of technology marked the inception of mass transmission of news and information with considerable change in the speed at which this information was gathered and disseminated to the public. The primitive source of transmission of news was by words of…
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Investigative journalism: Definition, Categories,role,functions
Investigative Journalism It is difficult to define the term Investigative Journalism because in one way all stories require some kind of investigation on the part of the reporter. However, an investigative reporter is expected to dig deeper beyond the facts stated in the hard news It is generally of two categories: (i) Exposure of corruption…
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Sources of News in Journalism and Importance of News Sources
Anything that provides news information for a period of time is said to be a news source. News sources can be a moving person or still documents. Such as people who have witnessed the crime would come to the news source or documents found at the suicide crime spot would be considered as a news…
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Photojournalism: Definition, Characteristics, Types, Events
It is said to be a newer concept. In photojournalism, we use words and pictures to describe the whole event, which is covered by the journalists. In photojournalism, the photographer has to click a picture that is strong and can summarize the whole event in one picture. A news photographer is very different from a…
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Purpose and Functions of News – Explained
When we talk about journalism and its functions, the few things that pop into our heads are that it helps in educating people, informing them, and guiding them in forming their opinions. In a nutshell, its primary function is to disseminate information on a larger scale and to reach people all over the world. The…
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Brief History and Timeline of Journalism
If we talk about gathering and transmitting news in this way, we are all reporters. If we go back to our older days, people verbally transmitted news, and as we can see with the progress in technology, we have new sources through which we get news. Previously, people who traveled brought news from outside their…