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5 characteristics of a good news report

October 14, 2013 Sunil Saxena 6

Journalism is a craft, and needs to be learnt the hard way. To excel, you need to be a good craftsman. You should know how […]

5 reasons why TV coverage of Cyclone Phailin is disappointing

October 12, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

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 […]

2 characteristics web journalism shares with news agencies

October 12, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

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

October 11, 2013 Sunil Saxena 3

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 […]

5 characteristics of an anchor story

October 5, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

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

October 4, 2013 Sunil Saxena 1

Web journalism enjoys eight key advantages over print in the way it covers, publishes and stores news reports. These advantages are: # Advantage 1 Web […]

3 characteristics of multimedia stories

September 17, 2013 Sunil Saxena 0

A multimedia story is a story that uses a combination of media elements that range from text, still images, audio, video, graphics, animation to maps. […]