The document provides a list of 16 questions about key concepts in news writing and reporting. The questions cover topics such as the inverted pyramid structure, attribution, definitions of hard news and soft news, news values, interview types, story forms like readers and packages, and elements of news stories like leads and central points.
1. Feedback:
Feedback, a term form cybernetics, the study of messages. It refers to an
inquiry, response or experiment. Feedback can be positive (when the
required result is achieved) or negative; instantaneous(when the
response is immediate) or delayed. Feedback is used to gauge the
effectivenss of a particular message put forth or situation that has taken
place.
Noise:
In all communication, there is a sender, a message/communication and a
receiver. The meaning of a message is greatly dependent on the culture
in which it is transmitted. The sender encodes a message, the receiver
decodes it. Between the sender, the message and receiver, noise gets in
the way and complicates the process. A noiseless communication does
not exist. There always is some kind of noise entering the
communication. Noise can be physical noise for example static or
psychological i.e. when culture, taboos or values come into play to
disrupt the normal transmission process of communication.
Misunderstanding of a particular message i.e. distortion of meaning is a
form of noise, example, the game of Chinese Whisper"a person starts off
with a particular message and the original message may be distorted by
the time it comes to the final player.
Uses and Effects of mass media
Chapter 2 focused on the various theories of communication and the
effects that the tools of media have on the audiences.
This chapter will focus on the several types of communication classified
on the basis of the social group in which it takes place and upon the
technical tools used for its facilitation. The various types are:
Decoder
the person receiving the message and decodes it is referred to as the
decoder
Intrapersonal Communication
Intrapersonal communication is one-way communication. Individual
2. contemplation, internal reflection, prayers, etc. are types of intrapersonal
communication. This type can also be termed as a form of internal
persuasion. There are two types of messages, nonverbal and verbal.
Examples of nonverbal
7. Crisis of the press
Do we suffer from the crisis of journalism is it true that the press is
still lagging behind the march of democratic reform in which we
live, and we first need to reform the press before we continue our
march towards political reform and reform and economic Does the
press today, the issue of whether the issue of the press is an
obstacle in order to build a democratic society that we desire and
that this the case with certain characteristics and many of them
must be identified.
We have formed the start of the press on the web phenomenon of
new media, linked to a revolution of information technology and
communications, bringing the media landscape closer to be the
property of all, and accessible to everyone, after he was confined
to a certain class of people, and became more widespread and
faster access to the largest number of readers, and thus the
electronic media has opened up many, and have become easier
and closer to the citizen, and here began the process of large
broadcast news sources electronic address different topics and
dive in the number of subjects varied and its impact and
conviction of its importance I joined the majority of newspapers
and broadcasters and television prestigious this router to become
the media e-mail in an envelope and a brief very serious and
profound impact both on decision-makers on the one hand, or the
formation of public opinion is no longer a government censor as it
was yesterday, without monitoring the ethics of journalism and
media message of substance.
The rapid spread of the arrival of information to a larger segment
of society, whether domestic or international lowest cost plays a
role in promoting democracy in that community journalism is
electronic not limited to a certain segment regardless of color,
sex, nationality, political party, religious and the poor and the rich
and the Contact Person and the citizen, whether reading or
participating, or show opinion shall press and the role of
government control by subtracting the problems of society and
ways to solve them and the views of citizens and their
suggestions and criticisms on the government and the presidency
any or private sector Vbikun electronic press does not apply the
8. law of the publishing and publications shall be the pot large
community strengthens its role in participating in decision-making
and promotes the concept of democracy and that the response
speed of the continental or the recipient of the information
expresses the confidence in and the comfort and tank volume
electronic press Faarb his mind and writes Pendants and publish
very quickly then your built strong relationships between members
of the community, both among the press and citizens or between
citizens and the other, or citizens and journalists to re-comment or
criticism to the comment or the possibility of contact citizen Press
Foundation, which works in the electronic press to ask about any
issue published and ask when Venture Pendants after revision
while not able reader and citizen to comment on the written press
or visual or unable to comment with the same Opinh and between
the members of his family and in the work but can not in most
cases of Pendants transfer and participation in decision-making.
Supporters of the freedom movement postpone the campaign to
liberate prisoners of the revolution for the Sabbath instead of
Thursday.
Supporters of the Movement for freedom across the front page of
the official social networking site Face book to postpone the press
conference, your campaign liberation of prisoners of the
revolution and who was supposed to be held on Thursday, the
Bar Association will be held on Saturday.
It also indicated that the cause of the movement to postpone the
conference and exposure to some of the obstacles on Thursday
and confirmed that the deadline set on Thursday to meet on a
social networking page is now active and can not be edited due to
the increase in the number of attendees for the limit.
