5 reasons why TV coverage of Cyclone Phailin is disappointing
The build up is incredible. Every television channel is focusing on Cyclone Phailin. You are being repeatedly told that the danger posed by the storm […]
Journalism
2 characteristics web journalism shares with news agencies
Web journalism is closer to news agency journalism than to print journalism. Both have instant deadlines, require constant updation and feed users across geographic locations […]
How to use punctuation marks in headlines
You cannot write a sentence without using a punctuation mark. The same is true of headlines which are skeletonised sentences. The punctuation marks perform two […]
How to club news reports
Digital editing may have made the art of clubbing copy — a newspaper term for joining news reports — easier, but it is a skill […]
5 characteristics of an anchor story
The Front Page of a newspaper showcases the best news reports of the day. Invariably, these are reports that in newspaper parlance are called hard […]
8 key advantages web journalism has over print
Web journalism enjoys eight key advantages over print in the way it covers, publishes and stores news reports. These advantages are: # Advantage 1 Web […]
What is a banner headline
“Rahul Trashes Ordinance, Shames Government” The Jaipur edition of The Times of India ran this headline across eight columns on its front page on September […]
How headline writers save space
Over the decades, headline writers have developed a grammar of their own. The headlines that they write are more like “skeletonised” sentences that are written […]
How to use attribution in headlines
One of the first things that cub journalists are taught is to source reports. By doing so, they establish the credibility of their reports. The […]