Category: Sociology and Media
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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…