Essays on Journalism

Firstly, there are many reasons why journalists have lost trust throughout the years and a lot of it I believe comes down to social media and 24/7 news. 24/7 news requires a high demand of content, this means that journalists must gathered information, facts and...

10 years ago, journalists were simply people who made a living from creating editorial material that was then published to reader, listeners or viewers. In today’s digital age it is not as easy to say what I journalist is with. Nowadays with the internet and...

Ladies and Gentlemen my name is Mike Richards. Welcome to my master class on how to write a persuasive biography with a hidden motif. Now a little bit about myself: I started my working life as a journalist with the Age then in the 90s...

In 2017 well known activist and journalist Gauri Lankesh was killed in front of her house when she was returning from her office on 5th of September, Lankesh was the editor of her own magazine Lankesh Patrike, which is a weekly magazine. On the evening...

There are five news sites that have comparisons and contrasts with their written and visual content: ABC, CNN, USAToday, New York Times and the Huffington Post. Their agenda-settings differ in majority of content, because a small fraction of the news sites focuses on certain events...

As readers, we generally presume journalists are a reliable source for news and information. Given this general assumption, it is important that journalists uphold a certain standard of ethics to ensure they are a trustworthy source for their readers. Spreading false information or withholding certain...

Absence of Malice is a film released in 1981 that deals with ethical issues in journalism. The story revolves around a murder case in which Michael Gallagher, a deceased criminal’s son, is the main suspect. In the film, there are various ethical issues with regards...

PRESENTATION I am Akib Akhlak, bachelor of journalism and mass communication, from Amity University, Noida. I got a chance of doing temporary position with Sahara India News Network from nineteenth JUNE 2017 to nineteenth July 2017 under Supervision of Mr. Zameer Hashmi. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I offer...

We currently live in a society where people render inaccurate information just to manipulate others. If we’re going to take a glance on the contemporary world that we live in, it is noticeable that inappropriate speech acts such as manipulation, defamation, and negligence still exists....

There are several watchdog organizations in all over the world who always keep an eye on the worldly affairs in a particular area, in which their teams works upon every single aspect of that particular area, like if will talk about the journalism or news...

What is Journalism? The term Journalism means to do an investigation of useful news and assembling and revealing of that news such that it changes general society perspectives or give them a review of any occurrence. It is fundamentally crafted by advising society about the...

Being a person with flawless language and great writing skill, it is no wonder that Aravind Adiga bagged Britain’s most prestigious literary award – The Man Booker Award for his book ‘The White Tiger’. From a proven student to a journalist and then to a...

“Journalists often subconsciously engage in essentially the same process when they decide how to describe the political world. They choose images and words that have the power to influence how audience interpret and evaluate issues and policies”. Agenda setting increases the accessibility of an issue,...

As we discussed above the cases of Indian journalists where they were dead in some cases the Assailants shoots them in front of their houses and some other was died when they cut their throat but in every cases it was clear that why they...

We live in a world, where many of us are not aware of the difference between original news and politically edited news. “We have a free press”, is just a saying. Our daily news that we read in newspapers and magazines, or the news that...

The International Federation of Journalists is the world’s largest organisation of journalists. First established as the Fédération Internationale des Journalistes (FIJ) in 1926 in Paris, it was re-launched as the International Organization of Journalists (IOJ) in 1946, but lost its Western members to the Cold...

A culture that values training and education does more than improve the quality of news coverage. It contributes to higher levels of satisfaction on the job and to lower turnover-not to mention the prospect of increased trust among readers and viewers. Aspiring journalists in universities...

Investigative Journalism assumes a key part in serving society by recognizing defilement, improving straightforwardness, and fortifying general feeling. Investigative Journalism of value and pertinence is significant in itself in what it can improve the situation common people and for society, ordinarily holding up truth to...

In 2005, over 10 million Indians switched online for news or information; web and mobile was the ‘big thing’. With credibility and authenticity ‘Data Journalism’ is the ‘survival’ today in online journalism. Data Journalism is all about the presentation of facts, visuals, and investigations of...