Writing and Editing for Print Media Explained in Journalism

Journalism is much more than merely getting the required information. Processing this information and then putting them together in the right order is vital while preparing the news reports. You will learn about what journalists require to develop their news reports. Watch the following video to understand how the professor wrote and edited the information that was collected.

Gathering and selecting information is followed by the writing and editing process. This is concerned with correction, organisation, condensation and improving collected materials. 

In this segment, you also learnt about the inverted pyramid and the elements of news writing.

Now that you have learned about the 5 Ws and 1 H, you can read the day's news articles in your local newspaper and identify the six questions and which other additional information was reported by the journalist. 

Click here to read the full article: Kolkata Cycling Ban Is Overturned by Dipanjan Sinha. You can also find the final article's PDF and early draft displayed in the video given below.

Additional reading: A day in a journalists life

That brings us to the end of this session. We hope you are now all set to attempt writing an article of your own as a part of the end of the course assignment.