JOUPRIP MODULE 6

News
Production

Instructor: Toni Tiemsin

5 July 2024
Module 6 Overview

• The news team

• The news production
process
• News selection
• Areas journalists normally
report on
• News gathering
The news team
 • Publisher
• Reporters
NEWSPAPER • Photojournalists
TEAM • Editors
• Graphic Artists
• Editor-in-Chief
 • News Division Chief
• Reporters
• Producers
BROADCAST • Desk Editors
NEWS TEAM • Copy Editors
• Graphic Artists
• Video Editors
The news production process
 News Preview/ Airing/
Selection/ News News News Approval of Publishing
Story Gathering Writing Editing News of News
Planning Report Report
News selection/Story planning
 • The beat
• Clippings
• Tips
• A hunch
SOURCES OF • Documents
• Databases
STORY IDEAS • Friends and neighbors
• Direct observation
• Advocacy
organizations or NGOs
 • Primary sources
• offer the best and most
reliable information on a
topic
• Secondary sources
TYPES OF • offer reliable second-hand
SOURCES information on a topic
• Anonymous sources
• offer “inside” information
that other sources might
not otherwise offer
 • Primary sources
• Examples:
• newsmakers
• an expert on a particular
TYPES OF topic
SOURCES • someone with firsthand
information on a topic
• an original document
• an official report
 • Secondary sources
• Examples:
TYPES OF • reference books
• reliable Web sites
SOURCES • people with informed
opinions on a topic
1. Start local.

STORY IDEAS
2. Start provincial, regional,
national, or global.

STORY IDEAS
3. All the players approach.

STORY IDEAS
 • The under-reported
story
QUALITIES OF • An injustice
SUCCESSFUL • Corruption or crime
• A faulty system or
DEPTH process
REPORTING • A human element
• A story appropriate to
your audience
“Successful journalists don’t
wait for the story to come to
them, they go out and dig up
stories that are of interest to
the public.”
 MAKING ASSIGNMENTS AND
CHOOSING ANGLES

ANGLE
- approach to a
story
News gathering
NEWS GATHERING
• Observation
• Phone
conversations
• Research
• Interviews
Questions?
Thank you!