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PEOPLEINTHENEWSROOM


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PEOPLEINTHENEWSROOM

Newsgathering involves a range of peoplethe

editorial department, pagination, printing staff

The Working Journalists and Other Newspaper

Employees (Conditions of Service) Miscellaneous

Provisions Act 1955 lists the following tasks as

falling within the ambit of working journalists.

Many of these are now obsolete because many

functions of printing have been taken over by

Desktop Publishing.


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PEOPLEINTHENEWSROOM

1. Editor

2. Leader-writer, editorial writer

3. News-editor, Sub-editor, edits the copies, in detail youwill learn in other editing classes

4. Feature-writer5. Copy-taster, production journalist who checks and

selects copy

6. Reporter

7. Correspondent, journalist covering specialist area

8. Cartoonist

9. News photographer

10. Proof-reader, now not required, earlier had to manuallycheck each page for errors


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TYPESOFEDITORSHEIRARCHY/ FUNCTIONS

Editor-in-chief/ Editor: , responsible for contentand reporters, meets with editorial staff, monitorsquality of news content and readership/ audienceresponse, gives direction to the news organisation,

hires people, could be member of professionalorganisations, adjudicates complaints againstreporters or the news content or organisation,liases with advertising and production departments,looks after necessities of production, responsible to

check for legal trouble Associate editor, executive editor, deputy editor,

resident editorindications of rank. Functionsvary with organisation


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TYPESOFEDITORSHIERARCHYAND

FUNCTIONS

City editorfor a geographical area, city. Hands outassignments, amount of coverage, lead story for the day

Managing editor, to look after administrative sidekeep to deadlines, stick to budgets, maintenance

News editor:responsible for all copy that appears in

the paper, looks after the subbing, ensuring storiesreach on time, prepares newslists and decides howmuch coverage to give a story, display and page-making

Copy-editor/ sub-editor: edits copy, providesheadlines, and designs the pages

Photo editor, responsible for photojournalists, forquality of photographs, composition, equipment,coordinates with various desks to supply appropriatephotographs, hands out photo assignments,


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TYPESOFEDITORSAREASOFWORKOR

NEWS

Rural affairs editor, only The Hindu has one

Features editor

Political affairs editor

Investigations editorall major news organisationsThe Guardian, The Observer, Washington Post,The New York Times, Harinder Baweja at Tehelka,Jyotirmoy De, Crime and Investigations Editor ofMid-Day, Ritu Sarin, Indian Express Group,

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Foreign affairs editor

Sports editor

Business editor


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GENDER(IN)EQUALITYINTHENEWSROOM?

Women were not allowed to work on the night shift

when I joined UNI as a sub-editor in Bombay in the

1980s. Some of my male colleagues protested

when I volunteered for night duty. The news editor

commented, So you dont mind being raped! andlaughed till he was breathless.

- Meena Menon, Deputy/ Assistant Editor, The Hindu,

Mumbai Bureau.


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8.5 per cent of editors are women, rest, obviously

men.Neerja Arora, Women Editors - Bridging the

Gender Gap, 2011.

Global Report on the status of Women in News

Media, in Asia male:female journalists is 4:1.

In India, in 1995 women were 12 percent of media

workforce. By 2010, it is 25 percent.

China has equal or more in some levels of reporting

and decision-making

India, Japan, Fiji and Australia, media organisations

have made strides in adopting gender policies


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According to data compiled by Ammu Joseph (2005)women often get assigned to cover lifestyle, fashion,flower shows, gender

She also records the kind of working atmospherewomen journalists face.

Women journalists report sexual harassment of variousforms: gossip, character assassination, touching,demands for sexual favours

Implementation of the Vishakha Guidelines1997 SCguidelines on sexual harassment at the workplace

Who is going to monitor implementation in the media? Situation is better now, at least in larger cities, both in

India and internationally, at least harassment on job isbeing talked about.


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Editors are responsible for handing outassignments and beats. So it is important that theeditor is free from bias and treats all journalistsequally.

Women editors: Bacchi Karkaria, Associate Editorwith Times of India; A.T. Jayanti, Editor, DeccanChronicle; Nirmala Lakshman, Joint Editor, TheHindu; Meena Menon, Deputy Editor, The Hindu,Mumbai; Parvati Menon, Chief of Bureau

Karnataka, The Hindu; Tehelka has ShomaChaudhury, Sagarika Ghose, Deputy Editor CNN-ibn; Barkha Dutt, Group Editor for NDTV.


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REFERENCEMATERIAL

Writing for Journalists by Wynford Hicks and others

for glossary of journalism terms

Key Concepts in Journalism Studies by Bob

Franklin and othersfor concepts

News editing by Bhanu Pratap Mehta

Making NewsWomen in Journalism by Ammu

Joseph

Global Report on the Status of Women in NewsMedia by International Womens Media Foundation


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TYPESOFREPORTERS

Reporters

Correspondents, those who cover a special area

Special correspondent

Freelances/ freelancers

Stringers Foreign correspondent

Reporter at large

Legal Affairs Correspondent,

Beat reporterscrime; education; women; marginalised

communitiesDalits, tribal peoples, adivasis, sexualminorities; health, science, politics and political parties,defence, aviation, government departments and localgovernenance bodies, conflictChhattisgarh, Sports

Business reporters

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