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MAC121:Introduction to news Reporting and Writing
MAC121, ‘Introduction to news writing and reporting’, is a three credit unit course offered in the first year to students of the undergraduate degree programme in Mass Communication. There are twenty-five Study Units in this course. There are no prerequisites for studying this course. It has been developed with appropriate local examples suitable for the Nigerian audience.
What Will You Learn?
The aims of this course are to give you an understanding of the role of the journalist in the society, attributes of a reporter and an understanding of how to report for both the print and broadcast media. These broad aims will be achieved by:
- Introducing you to journalism, and the basic principles of news reporting.
- Demonstrating how these principles can be applied.
- Acquainting you with the legal and ethical rules guiding your job as a reporter.
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Includes
- Define what news is
- State the roles of the journalist in the society
- List the attributes of the reporter
- Explain some theories of the press
- Identify sources of news and how to gather news
- Write news stories for the print and broadcast media
- Understand Internet journalism
- Know some laws guiding you job as a journalist
- Differentiate between ethics and law
- Discuss the code of ethics for Nigerian journalists
- Discuss some ethical problems in Nigerian journalism
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Lessons Of Course
The Reporter and his Attributes
12:11:00 pm
Writing for News Paper: The Lead
9:58:00 am
Gathering the News
12:17:00 pm
Writing for Newspaper: The Body of the News
9:53:00 am
Covering Peaches, meetings and News Conferences
12:28:00 pm
Broadcast Style Book
8:48:00 am
Preparing Broadcast Copy
6:09:00 am
Interviewing
6:20:00 am
The Net
7:46:00 am
Computer Assisted Journalism
4:03:00 am