Punjabi University Courses

Certificate Course in Reporting for Newspapers and Television

Course Details:-

Paper-I : Introduction to Journalism

(Ist Month)

• Journalism : Definition, scope and concept
• News : Definition and concept
• Elements of News
• Sources of News
• Classification of News
• News gathering

Paper-II : Media Writing

(IInd Month)

• Characteristics of print media
• Characteristics of Television Journalism
• News writing for print and audio-visual media
• News reports, features, analysis etc.
• Investigative and interpretative journalism

Paper-III : Media Production

(IIIrd Month)

• Introduction to newsroom/studio (newspapers and TV)
• Rewriting, sub-editing and production of print news
• Packaging and production of television news and reports
• Producing news based programmes