Foundations of Journalism
The 5 W's of Journalism that are used to address or cover the fundamentals of a story
What are Who, What, When, Where, Why?
This first principle of Journalism states: journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods. This is
What is Obligation to the Truth?
This type of Journalism is about collecting news about business around the globe, the launch of new products in the market, unions, and procurement of companies, the performance of companies and economic ups and downs.
What is Business Journalism?
This part of the news contains the 5 W's and comes first
What is the Lead?
These Stages of Journalistic Writing must be followed.
What are Gathering---Writing---Publishing?
To whom must a journalist always be loyal?
Who is the readers or the public?
This type of journalism is one of the serious types of journalism. This field can be divided into three categories such as local political news, national political news, and international political news.
What is Political Journalism?
A story, event or situation that is interesting as a reflection of human nature
What is Human Interest?
Rarity, Impact, Proximity and Prominence are critical to Objective Reporting. They are known as
What are the Elements of News or Value of Journalism?
Journalism is storytelling with a purpose. It should do more than gather an audience or write the important information. It should display this principle
What is Relevance?
This type of journalism is related to covering a sports event, sports series or a sports person. This field of journalism is fun to work for, with additional benefits like traveling to different countries, chance to watch live-sports events and opportunities to meet sportsperson.
What is Sports Journalism?
The record of the things you click on, post and do online
What is Digital Footprint?
Providing accurate, concise, credible and timely information to the public that are used in decision making are some of the main
What are Purposes of Journalism?
Truthfulness, accuracy, fairness, impartiality and objectivity
What are Principles of Journalism?
This field is for the art lovers. There are various forms of arts such as dance, music, literature, films, drama, painting, poetry, and many more. The job of this journalist is to analyze the trend of the art world and share news related to it with the audience.
What is Arts Journalism?
This has to do with a citizen's rights to request (get) information from their government.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
One way to verify credibility is to
Use previously reputable sources, have at least two sources and verify the news item with another source.
Each journalist must use their own?
What is Conscience or Morality?
This type of journalism includes finding the facts, studying the cases, exposing scandals and making headlines. Sometimes a story is published as the facts are being found in daily newspapers. Sometimes a case can take months to years to find information about.
What is Investigative Journalism?
This is a Constitutional law that protects Religion, Free Speech, Press, Assembly and Petition of the Government
What is the First Amendment?