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An Introduction To Journalism (Demo Teaching)

Journalism involves the production and distribution of factual reports about current events to inform citizens and support democracy. It exists in various forms including print, broadcast, and digital and serves the important purpose of providing people with information needed to make decisions. Key parts of newspapers are the front page, editorial page, feature page, sports page, and other sections like arts and comics.

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An Introduction To Journalism (Demo Teaching)

Journalism involves the production and distribution of factual reports about current events to inform citizens and support democracy. It exists in various forms including print, broadcast, and digital and serves the important purpose of providing people with information needed to make decisions. Key parts of newspapers are the front page, editorial page, feature page, sports page, and other sections like arts and comics.

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An Introduction to

Journalism
Journalism is….
• the production and distribution of
reports on current events based on
facts and supported with proof or
evidence. The word journalism applies
to the occupation, as well as citizen
journalists who gather and publish
information based on facts and
supported with proof or evidence.
What is the purpose of journalism?
• Not defined by technology, nor by
journalists or the techniques they
employ.
• the function news plays in the lives of
people. - Bill Kovach and Tom
Rosenstiel in The Elements of
Journalism.
What is the purpose of journalism?
• provide citizens with the
information they need to make
the best possible decisions
about their lives, their
communities, their societies,
and their governments.
What is a Newspaper?

• Publication containing news,


information, and advertising,
usually printed on low-cost paper
called newsprint.

Content may be
general or special
interest, and is most
often published daily
or weekly.
First printed newspapers appeared in the
seventeenth century, until the late twentieth
century.
Parts of a Newspaper
Front Page
Shows were
everything is Editorial Page
located such as
news articles. An article in which
the people who run
a newspaper give
Feature Page their opinion on an
Detailed report important issue.
on a person, an
issue or event
Literary Page
Sports Page arts and leisure, poems
or story, article about
contains news about sports religion, entertainment
events, articles about people section, comics and
well-known in sports reviews.
Fields in Journalism
Three areas written, oral,
Example of written :
and visual news writing, editorial
writing, feature writing,
sports writing

Examples of Oral
journalism: Radio
broadcasting and reporting

Examples of visual
journalism are
movies, and
documentaries
Why Journalism is Important?

Its role is to inform society


with the information they
need to live their lives.

Gives current and relevant


information and news to the
public.
Individual Activity

identify the parts of the


newspaper in order.
1. Define and explain journalism and its types.
2. Write a sample of any of the following: News Writing, Sports
Writing, Feature writing and editorial writing

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