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First of its kind book to have extensive coverage of reporting, with a special focus on beat reporting. Beat Reporting and Editing: Journalism in the Digital Age offers an extensive and pioneering study of reporting for all the news beats, and news writing and editing. Besides having exclusive chapters on rural reporting, storytelling, photojournalism and cartooning, social media reporting, misinformation and fake news, and solution-based journalism, this coedited forty-eight-chapter textbook is an exhaustive resource filled with insights on traditional beats like defence, politics, court, crime, sports and entertainment. It covers all the emerging forms of journalism such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and bots, podcast, mobile journalism (MOJO), drone journalism (DOJO) and data journalism in India.  The book is structured to guide the students and teachers on the techniques of reporting on specific beats in the digital environment, role of AI and digital technologies in newsgathering and reportage as well as issues of identity, data, research and analysis in new-age journalism. Drawing on an enormous range of examples, case studies and first-hand experiences of eminent journalists and media educators, it encourages students to critically engage with all forms of journalistic writing in the digital era. Key Features: • First-of-its-kind textbook to include extensive coverage of reporting, with special focus on beat reporting  • Not only limited to print media but also covers broadcast journalism as well as digital media  • Contains chapters by highly experienced journalists who have worked in their specific beats for decades, and academicians teaching the subject in the classroom • One of the most future-ready textbooks on journalism featuring a whole section on innovations and emerging technologies in journalism

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Author:   Surbhi Dahiya ,  Shambhu Sahu
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   1.220kg
ISBN:  

9789354792144

ISBN 10:   9354792146
Pages:   636
Publication Date:   21 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Message from Hon’ble Vice-President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu Foreword by Bill Hinchberger Foreword by Devesh Kishore Preface Acknowledgements SECTION I: UNDERSTANDING REPORTING Fundamentals of Reporting - Surbhi Dahiya and Shambhu Sahu Types of Reporting - Chandrani Banerjee News Sources and Art of Gathering - V. S. Chandrasekar Understanding Beats - Prabhjot Paul Singh SECTION II. BEATS AS SPECIALIZED REPORTING Crime Reporting - Jupinderjit Singh Government and Political Reporting - Pramod Kumar Singh Parliamentary Reporting - Ashok Tuteja Legislative Reporting - Kanchan Vasdev Legal and Court Reporting - J. Venkatesan Defence Reporting - Ajay Banerjee Internal Security Reporting - Namrata Biji Ahuja International Affairs Reporting - Smita Sharma Conflict and War Reporting - Rohit Gandhi Economy and Finance Reporting - Manoj Kumar Business Reporting - Shishir Sinha Health Reporting - Aarti Dhar Education Reporting - Urmi A. Goswami Sports Reporting - Kulveen Trehan Science and Technology Reporting - Manoj Kumar Patairiya Nuclear and Space Reporting - Pallava Bagla Environment Reporting - Vibha Sharma Civil Administration, City and Mofussil Reporting - Rajeev Khanna Development Reporting - Ankuran Dutta Gender, Women and Child Reporting - Rinku Paul Rural and Agriculture Reporting - Mayank Bhardwaj Disaster Reporting - Vijay S. Satokar Arts and Culture Reporting - Tanvi Akhauri Fashion, Lifestyle and Entertainment Reporting - Sreemoyee Kundu Railways and Roadways Reporting - Arun Kumar Das Civil Aviation Reporting - Vinay Kumar Automobile Reporting - Vikrant Singh Travel and Food Reporting - Parul Mehra SECTION III. DATA JOURNALISM AND VISUALIZATION Data Journalism - Uma Shankar Pandey Data Visualization - Geeta Kashyap SECTION IV. JOURNALISM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: INNOVATION IN REPORTING AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES Emerging Technologies: MoJo, Podcast, Bots and Blockchain - Rohit Gandhi Drone Journalism (DoJo) - M. J. Augustine Vinoth and Varsha Kukreti Social Media Reporting - Sangeeta Pranvendra SECTION V. VISUAL APPROACH IN JOURNALISM Photojournalism, Storytelling and Cartooning - Tabeenah Anjum Qureshi and Mrinal Kumar Chatterjee SECTION VI. BEYOND REPORTING: OPINION AND OTHER FORMS OF WRITING Writing Editorials - Sanjay Kapoor Writing for Op-Ed page and Letters to the Editor - Martand Jha Writing Special Articles and Middles - Ujjwala S. Barve and Jupinderjit Singh Writing Features - Vichitra Sharma Writing for Supplements - Pooja Rana Writing Reviews - Bhawana Somaaya SECTION VII. CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS IN JOURNALISM: MISINFORMATION, FAKE NEWS VERSUS ETHICS Misinformation, Fake News and Data Verification - Umesh Arya Ethics in Reporting - Sambit Pal Solution-based Journalism - Pramod Kumar SECTION VIII. UNDERSTANDING EDITING Editing Concepts and Processes - Marydasan John Index

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Surbhi Dahiya née Bhalla is presently working as a Professor and Course Director in the Department of English Journalism at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) (under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India). She is the Faculty Ambassador for International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in India. She is the former editor of the reputed journal, Communicator. She started her career as a correspondent with The Tribune 20 years ago and later shifted to academics. Dr Dahiya holds a PhD in media studies and a dual master’s degree. She has as an MSc in mass communication and technology and an MBA in human resources. She was a gold medallist during her graduation. Professor Dahiya was the SUSI Scholar from India for the Study of the U.S. Institutes in the year 2017. She studied journalism at Ohio University during that period and was also certified by the US State Department. She was elected as the Liaison Chair for Academia and Industry by the South Asian Communication Association (SACA) in Chicago, where she also participated in Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference (2017). She was an invited delegate for a roundworkshop conducted by Economic and Social Research Council and Indian Council of Social Science Research on social media research held in January 2015 in London. She chaired a number of sessions and presented many research papers nationally and internationally. She was a UNESCO panellist on Safety of Journalists in Montreal, and paper presenter at International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) at Canada (July 2015), Asian Media Information and Communication Centre conference at American University in Dubai (June 2015), World Press Freedom Day at Helsinki, Finland (May 2016), Journalism Education at IAMCR, Leicester, UK (July 2016); ICA-SACA, Prague, Czech Republic (May 2018), and 5th World Journalism Education Congress held at Paris Dauphine University, Paris (July 2019). She compiled ‘Connecting Threads: A Compendium of Media Educators of India’. She also won many awards for excellence in the field of journalism education like Women Economic Forum (WEF) Award 2019 for ‘Iconic Woman’ as an Exceptional Leaders of Excellence, PRSI National Award and Lifestyle Journalistic TLJ Jury Awards among others. Dr Dahiya is writing extensively on Indian media organizations. She is the author of The House that ZEE Built and Indian Media Giants: Unveiling the Business Dynamics of Print Legacies (forthcoming). Shambhu Sahu is an Assistant Professor at Vivekanand School of Journalism and Mass Communication (VSJMC), Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies (VIPS), New Delhi. Previously, he worked as a teaching associate at Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, and as a project manager at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He has 15 years of experience in print journalism and book publishing. As a journalist, he has worked with The Times of India, The Indian Express and the Press Trust of India (PTI) and has done both reporting and editing. He has over 200+ byline articles in various national dailies. During his stint in book publishing, he has commissioned/edited over 200+ academic and trade titles for SAGE and Rupa Publications. He also has three research publications in a peer-reviewed journal and a monograph. He is an MPhil/PhD scholar at the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He qualified UCG-NET in 2018. He has an MA in mass communication from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology (GJUS&T), Haryana, PG Diploma in English Journalism from IIMC, Dhenkanal, Odisha, and BSc from Ramjas College, University of Delhi. He has also done certificate courses in film appreciation and radio jockeying.

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