Course Description: This course presents the basics of journalism and its ethical dimensions. It involves some practicals of writing, reporting, editing, making blogs. Journalistic terms – print and digital are clarified. Also how to create a website and how to create a YouTube channel.
Course Contents: What is Journalism? Who is a journalist? Understanding media operations, types of communication, the unwritten norms of mass media culture, present trends in Indian media, the new media, news reporting – kinds of news, news values, news Vs feature, actual news writing, fact Vs opinion, anatomy of a newspaper, press laws, ethical principles, defamation and libel.