Fundamentals of Reporting and Editing' covers all professional aspects of journalism. For the students of journalism it's a textbook and for practicing journalists it's a handbook. Thouth it deals with conceptual part of journalism, more emphasis is laid on the practical aspect. Thus, it might serve the purpose of a work book. The relevant aspects of reporting and editing have been covered in a manner that you will always find journalism in action in this book. For developing an understanding of news it has been defined in the words of scholars, the qualities of news and its elements have been discussed and the new value or the determinants of news have been underlined. The structure of a news report-inverted pyramid and 5Ws as also the lead writing has been discussed with some new insight. The book focuses on both the essetinal aspects of reporting-news gathering and news writing. It includes news sources, sourcing or attribution, objectively in reporting and social responsibility. It also talks about characteristics of a reporter, his/her functions and responsibility. About The Author: Dr Ambrish Saxena is Consultant at the Centre for Media Studies, Guru Gobind Sigh Indraprastha University, Delhi. He is also the Coordinator of PG Diploma in Electronic Media at the same centre in the University. Earlier, he has held the post of the University Course Coordinator of BJ (MC) programme for three years. He has also been the Director of Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies for past five years. He has done his M.A. (Pol. Sc.) and L.L.B from Allahabad University and BJ and MJ from Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi. He joined journalism as a full-timer in 1979 and served in some of the widely circulated Hindi and English dailies to name the most prominent of them, The Pioneer and Aaj in various capacities. In the electronic media, Dr Saxena has worked as a correspondent for the first TV Hindi news magasine PARAKH produced by veteran Vinod Dua

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