RADIO JOCKEYING AND

NEWS READING
SEMESTER III
BA (JMC) 207

GUIDELINES, CODES & ETHICS

FOR PRESENTATION

Tinam Borah

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 READING LIST
McLeish, R. (1999). Radio Production: A manual for
broadcasters. Oxford: Focal Press.
Adams, M. H., & Massey, K. K. (1995). Introduction to
Radio: Production and Programming. Madison, WI: Brown &
Benchmark.

Boyd, A. (2001). Broadcast Journalism

Techniques of Radio and Television News. Oxford: Focal
Press.

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LECTURE OBJECTIVES
•To familiarise students with guidelines, code
and ethics for presentation in radio

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It is the duty of the media to keep the citizenry informed of the
state of governance which mostly puts it as odds with the
establishment.

A media that is meant to expose the lapses in government and in

public life cannot obviously be regulated by government since it
would lack credibility.

It is a fundamental paradigm of freedom of speech that media

must be free from governmental control in the matter of content.

It therefore falls upon the journalist profession to evolve

institutional checks and safeguards, specific to the electronic
media that can define the path that would conform to the highest
standards of rectitude and journalistic ethics and guide the media
in the discharge of its solemn constitutional duty.
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There are models of governance evolved in other countries
who have seen an evolution of the electronic media
including the news media much before it developed in India.
The remarkable feature of all these models is self
governance, and a monitoring by a “jury of its peers”.

The interference by the government, however well

intentioned, would imperil not just this method of
independent journalism, but the very process of investigation
itself. It therefore becomes imperative that the news
channels lay down guidelines, procedural safeguards and
establish a body that would act as a watchdog and a
grievance redressal forum

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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND
SELF REGULATION
Impartiality and objectivity in reporting

Ensuring neutrality

Ensuring crime and violence is not glorified

Privacy

National security

Superstition and occultism

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 WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED?

•Criticism of friendly countries

•Attack on religions or communities
•Anything obscene or defamatory
•Incitement to violence or anything against maintenance of law&
order
•Anything amounting to contempt of court
•Aspersions against the integrity of the President, Governors and
the Judiciary.
•Attack on a political party by name
•Hostile criticism of any State or the Center

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•Anything showing disrespect to the Constitution or advocating
change in the Constitution by violence; but advocating changes in a
constitutional way should not be debarred

•Appeal for funds except for the Prime Minister National Relief
Fund, at a time of External Emergency or if the Country is faced
with a natural calamity such a floods, earthquake or cyclone.

•Direct publicity for or on behalf of an individual or organization

which is likely to benefit only that individual or organization

•Trade names in broadcasts which amount to advertising

directly(except in Commercial Services).
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