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Questions to study and to know what its means;

1.who’s journalist?
2.what are journalism?

  1. Types of journalism? *JOURNALISM* Journalist is someone whose job is to notify and work effectively on a critical issues concerning particular nation, region, district, town,community and etc. Journalist Purposive is someone who’s job is to investigate issues and report and write on a particular platform either radio, television, social media, newspapers, magazines etc.

Journalism are the professional activities of gathering, assessing, creating, and presenting news and information on a required platform. Journalism can be distinguished from other activities and products by certain identification.

Types of Journalism
We have several types of journalism

  1. Column writing journalism
  2. Sports presenter journalism
  3. Investigative journalism
  4. Editor
  5. Photography
  6. Watchdog
  7. Online
  8. Opinion etc.

What’s Characterized A Journalist?
A journalist should be;

  1. Always look around for what’s happening to the environment.
  2. Always think outside box.
  3. Always be a good listener.
  4. Always speak clearly or sunlit on issues popping up in the confines environment.
  5. Always be a good communicator.
    Etc

. REPORT
Report simply means to act or announce of investigating situation and to interprets through a certain platform either electronic media or print media. *TYPES OF REPORTING*

OBJECTIVE REPORTING
Objective reporting refers to the plain presentation of facts as they have happened. Objective reporting does not involve contextualizing, backgrounding, analyzing or opinionating. Here the reporter only reports what he has seen or observed without any kind of subjective inputs.
The following points can well summarize the concept of objective reporting:

1.Balance and even handedness in presenting different sides of an issue
2.Accuracy and realism in reporting
3.Presenting all main relevant points
4.Separating facts from opinions, but treating opinion as relevant
5.Minimizing the influence of the writer’s own opinions, attitudes or involvement.

INTERPRETATIVE REPORTING
Interpretative reporting combines facts with interpretation. Many a time the reporter has to interpret certain events for better understanding of the readers. It means providing background information relating to a particular incident or happening. it.
As such, the reporter delves into reasons and meanings of a certain development and gives information along with an interpretation of its significance.
And it is the reporter, who interprets the event by telling the readers about the past history or the course of action that led to the happening of the event. This adds more insights into events and the reporter has to keep a track of all the events of the past, present and also at times should be able to forecast the future. Thus, interpretative reporting brings out the hidden significance of an event and separates truth from falsehood.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
When a news reporter has to dig deeply beyond what is stated in the hard news in order to find out the exact facts of an event, or, in short, investigates beyond what meets the naked eye, then it is called investigative reporting. Investigative reporting means investigating on
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TYPES OF REPORTING
any happening. Investigative journalism is in-depth and involves long- term research and reporting. It reveals information not known to the public and which others want to keep secret. Mostly investigation is done in case of major happening or when larger public concern is involved or in matters that involve public figures or celebrities. In any kind of reporting, the reporter does some sort of investigation to dig out information which otherwise is not available. Without preliminary investigation the reporter cannot make a sound copy or report. However, in case of some stories, especially relating to certain scams or misappropriation of public money, the reporter has to investigate properly to get the relevant information in order to come out with a good copy. Also, in such cases, information is difficult to come by and the reporter has to invest both time and energy to dig out facts.

WHERE TO GET A REPORT
Every journalist is a reporter.
Let’s check through this areas or where we can get a report for our good listeners.

  1. Presidency dairies
  2. Road
  3. Books/pictures
  4. News site
  5. Cameras
  6. Experts
  7. Conference
  8. Friends/ strangers
    Etc.

HOW TO WRITE A REPORT
Not all journalist is a writer. For a journalist to be a good writer he/she must have certain knowledge about reports(reporting) based on that can help write a story or report on a platform.
Let’s quickly focus on this when writing a report or story

  1. Heading
    The story heading should be very
    I. Simple with a vital meaning.
    II. It should be catchy.
    III. Capitalize it
    IV. Short statement.
    Example: SIMON DIEDONG DOMBO OF UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS AND INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT STUDIES ARE ON VACATION
  2. Tailing :refers to the main statement of the story or the report. It can be heading too. It gives vital information to the story. Sometimes bloggers copy the main subject matter and paste it as their heading. Example: students of UBIDS are on vacation

3.Introduction and body should correspond with the evidence based on the Objectivity or the incidence.
Your introduction should have
I. Time
II. Date
III. Place and you need to make things very clear for understanding.