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Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journalism. Show all posts
Sunday, January 8, 2017

If newspapers die, what would happen to allied media fields? What would happen to, say, PR and advertising?

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THE NOTE I SENT OUT TO MY STUDENTS JUST NOW: Hindustan Times is shutting down its Kolkata edition as well as its editions in Ranchi, B...
Friday, January 6, 2017

Can you write a three-word intro? Do three-word intros work?

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Here is the three-word intro Sam Borden wrote for a golf story in The New York Times : It was in. To understand why it is a great i...
Thursday, October 13, 2016

Can you imagine a Reuters copy editor not knowing the difference between "it's" and "its"?

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Last evening I spotted a typo in a caption for a picture accompanying a story on the Reuters website. So I scrolled down to the "Correc...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

When both reporter and copy editor screw up big-time

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Page 3 of Bangalore Times today — that should be "greenbacks" ( a colloquial term for the US dollar ), not "green bags...
Saturday, August 20, 2016

Who are these people who get bombed while doing their work but keep going back?

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And who are the people bringing us their stories? Physicians working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) have saved co...
Saturday, July 16, 2016

"I'll drill you, I'll grill you, so that the industry won't kill you"

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What makes a journalism professor tick? This short video perhaps provides the answer: This profile was produced by Commitscions Shrist...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

When Commitscion Prema Sridevi's Times Now story became the talk of Parliament

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Prema Sridevi (Class of 2005)  interviews the former Home Secretary ... ...and the next day the story is  brought up in Parliam...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

We can't ignore typos in a blog post by a sub-editor, can we?

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A few days ago I came across a terrific blog post titled "A day in the life of a sub-editor". Everything written in the piece spok...
Thursday, March 3, 2016

Once a journalist, always a journalist

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Commits alumnus Ayushman Baruah (Class of 2008) on why, after a brief stint as a corporate communications professional, he has returned to h...
Friday, February 26, 2016

Why you should listen to this spellbinding podcast interview with the mother of one of the Columbine shooters

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On April 20, 1999, when Sue Klebold heard about a shooting incident at Columbine High School, her thoughts immediately turned to her 17-yea...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Golden words of advice for journalism students

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Earlier this month Commits student Sudeshna Dutta (Class of 2017) began publishing her blog, Journalism 101. Her first post is titled ...
Friday, November 20, 2015

This media student's answer to a question about "burglary, robbery, and theft" gives a whole new meaning to the word "misappropriate"

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What is the difference between ‘burglary’, ‘robbery’, and ‘theft’? (a) Burglary means forcible entry with intent to commit a crime. (b) Ro...
Thursday, November 19, 2015

Listen in as Rukmini Callimachi, the remarkable journalist who is tracking ISIS, talks about possibly the most difficult of media assignments

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RUKMINI CALLIMACHI How on earth does she do it? Rukmini Callimachi, who began her freelance career in New Delhi with Time magazine and ...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Why Jonathan Bach wants to be a journalist, come what may

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Here is a relevant excerpt from a recent op-ed feature in The New York Times : "...the best journalists connect with readers, viewers...

Surely "etc." has no place in a news report?

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Here is a portion of a badly written press release (something I made up for a news-writing exercise at Commits): The ten categories at th...

Give me full names (at first reference), please

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It is important to give full names (at first reference) in a news story. Or isn't it? I have some difficulty in persuading a few of my...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015

You can learn so much from listening to these fascinating podcasts

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If you're an aspiring media student or a young journalist or a writer-in-the making, there are few better ways of learning the cra...