MCM 3QQ REPORTING AND SUB EDITING ASSIGNMENT NO 1 SPRING 2017

REPORTING AND SUB-EDITING (MCM-311)

Assignment No 1

Q No.1          Suggest a catchy caption for given pictures. (6)

SOLUTION:

CAPTION:

Islamabad:  The Joint Armed Forces Impressive Review of “Pakistan Day Parade” on 23^rd March held at Islamabad.

CAPTION:

Lahore:  Festival of “Jashan-e-Baharan” held at Defense Housing Society to celebrate the entrance of spring season with full zeal and zest

Suppose yourself as a Sub-Editor of renowned daily; critically analyze the impact of
each picture on your target audience and support your answer with logical arguments.
(6)

SOLUTION

PAKISTAN DAY PARADE

Pakistan Day Parade is a closed public holiday in Pakistan to indulge in the memories of Lahore Resolution on March 23 every year. All Administrative institutions, banks, workplaces, banks, postal services, educational organizations, trades and industries remain closed, excluding few global establishments. Moreover, Partial transportation is also observed on this day, and might be totally inaccessible on various routes. A large number of people visit recreational area of Islamabad on Pakistan Day, that’s why traffic jamming is normal issue in large cities. Resolution of Lahore is perceived a significant landmark in the Muslim endeavor for a sovereign state in exclusive subcontinent. A foremost element of Pakistan Day festivity is a review parade at Constitution Avenue Islamabad. A prize ceremony is planned where the president gives military and civilian awards to distinguish receivers’ successes and endeavoring for Pakistan.

JASHN-E-BAHARAN

Lahore is a richest cultural city of Pakistan and organized a various kind of festivals during the year. The leading, or conceivably the well-known, festival is Jashan-e-Baharan which is held in every year. Jashan-e-Baharan is a festival organizing the commencement of the spring season. This festival is an Entertaining program celebrated with flower competition. The colorful ceremony is arranged and participated by a great amount of floriculture mistresses from all over the city. Collection of sales booth and other exhibitions at the thriving placed out location is planned in the festival. Award distribution ceremonial program is also arranged for the champions in numerous groups and classes who contested in preparations of cut flowers, dry flowers, and preservation of their relevant grasslands, organizations, and residences the prizes. The selection of winners is decided in accordance with the decision of the panel which is composed of DHA administrators, inhabitants, and people from the Parks and Horticulture Authority. This festival attained more and more significance whole the years and utilized to fascinate people from all over the country.

Q No.2          Discuss the elements of news that make it more effective by stating the example of
political news of any famous English newspaper of Pakistan.

SOLUTION:

ELEMENT OF NEWS

Good news must have some elements to come up to the required standard of news. These elements of news are appended below:-

·         Accuracy

·         Meaningfulness

·         Interesting

·         Speed

·         Factual

·         Objectivity

·         Conciseness

·         Clarity

·         Comprehensiveness

·         Cohesiveness

1. Accuracy:

A piece of news must be perfect and correct. Whatever the news is, just it should be accurate in every aspect of its particulars

Ø  The names of the persons mentioned in the news must be accurate

Ø  The names of right places must be mentioned in the news

Ø  If mandatory to be mentioned in the news, the age of the peoples must be mentioned with accurate figures.

Ø  Date, Time and Days of happening, accident, incident or speech that is being reported in news must be exactly written.

Ø  Language in respect of grammar, vocabulary, structure and pronunciation must be correct.

2. Meaningfulness:

The news which is being reported must be meaningful and understandable and give some clear sense of its meaning for viewer/ listener/ readers.

3. Interesting:

The viewer/ listener/ readers must not get bored from the news story that is being broadcasting and it must be prepared in the attracting and inviting format so that people take attention towards news. It’s a little bit tough job but interest is the major element of news.

4. Speed:

Speed is very significant element of news and perfect and correct news must be reported well in time and speed. Late reporting of news means that news is reported by any other person.

5. Factual:

The news of any happening, incident, accident, statement or opinion must be real and which has truly occurred. Broadcasting something fabricated or concocted will surely bring bad image to the channel. It is the most significant element to be cared and taken into severe deliberation while putting news on air is its being factual and truthful.

6. Objectivity:

Objectivity means a news story is required to be to-the-point. Unneeded contents or information even though it might be component of occurrence or incident should be disregard and ignored.

7. Conciseness:

A news story should not be unneeded relatively long in duration and it must be expressing much in few words. Where inessential information is avoided, pointless phrasing must also be trim out. Excessive and empty words always waste the goal and this is conciseness that is consistently approved upon to be soul of wit.

8. Clarity:

The foremost aim of news is to hold the target public in sense of what is occurring in their circle and in the world. The goal is attained merely if clarity is there clarity. Easy Vocabulary, easy on dialect order of the words, and precise and flawless pronunciation are the fundamental element retaining which the objective of producing news clear and comprehensible may thriving be accomplished.

9. Comprehensiveness

Incase somewhat is inclusive it means that it is comprehensive in all respect. A news item is measured complete merely when it replies the all possible question that might arise in the minds of viewer/listener. As a general principal to make a news story comprehensive and complete – five Ws and one H are to be satisfied. They actually stand for: what, when, where, why, who and how.

·         What happened?

·         When happened?

·         Where happened?

·         Why happened?

·         Who did it? And

·         How did it happen?

Occasionally in convinced news, correspondingly it becomes essential to reply additional W, and that is who for.

10. Cohesiveness

The last but not the least one is the element of cohesiveness. In case talking of an order, a sort of balance; a well-knit, well-thought-out, well-ordered and even end-product, we actually talk of cohesiveness. News details must be put in proper sequence and proper order.

EXAMPLE OF POLITICAL NEWS OF DAWN NEWSPAPER

Imran’s bribery allegation stirs up a hornet’s nest

Despite calls from PPP and PML-N, PTI Chief refuses to name middleman By Kalbe Ali & Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan’s incendiary allegation that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif tried to bribe him to not pursue the Panama Papers case drew a sharp reaction from the government on Wednesday.       A day earlier, speaking to party members in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mr Khan had alleged that PM Sharif had offered him Rs 10 billion to back off from the case.      During a series of TV appearances on Wednesday, he went further, claiming that the proposal came from a close friend of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif.      Appearing in an ARY News show, he did not name the person that brought the “offer from the Sharif family” but said it happened only two weeks ago, when the judgment in the Panama Papers case had been reserved, but not announced.      “He is very close to Nawaz Sharif’s brother,” he replied when asked about the man who brought the offer. “He came to see me about two weeks ago and told me about the offer. Let me tell you that the Sharif family had even made him a very good offer and promised to ‘entertain’ him if he could convince me,” the PTI chief claimed.      He said the offer reflected the desperation of Sharif family which felt threatened because of the Supreme Courte verdict.      “Such offers are never made through direct contract. For instance, Nawaz Sharif cannot call me directly and make an offer; it’s always conveyed through different contacts. The same channel was used in my case,” he said.      The PTI chief lauded the Supreme Court judges who came up with such a judgment, despite knowing the Sharif family’s history.           “They always want to buy people. They have a history of bribing people [to protect] their illegal businesses and vested interests,” he added.      “This Rs10 billion was just a starting point; if I had showed some flexibility, they could have offered me more than that,” he conclude.

have also demanded that the PTI chief reveal who offered him money on behalf of PM Sharif, but the party seemed reluctant to disclose the middleman, who is said to be a common friend of Imran Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.      When contacted, PTI spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry refused to divulge the identity of the person who approached Mr Khan with the offer, saying: “Such allegations have already been leveled against Prime Minister Sharif in the past.”      “It was recounted by the late journalist Azhar Sohail in his book; mian Sharif had offered Gen Asif Nawaz a BMW car and a diamond key ring that cost more than the car,” he added.      The PTI spokesman said the prime minister had also been accused of getting monetary assistance from Osama bin Laden, founder of Al Qaeda, and the money was used to topple the government of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.      The PTI spokesman said Mr Khan had already disclosed this in an informal chat with some friends at his nephew’s wedding recently, a video of which went viral some ago.      Asked why Mr Khan was not disclosing the name of the person who offered him the money, the spokesperson said: “We will disclose the name of the person at appropriate time.”     To respond to the government’s allegations, the PTI announced that it would hold a press conference at the official PID premises today (Thursday). This would be PTI’s second press held on the government’s stomping ground.      Meanwhile, PPP leader Qamar Zaman Kaira termed it the “legal and moral responsibility of Imran Khan to disclose the name of the person who tried to buy his loyalty. Mr Kaira said this was the most appropriate time for the PTI to reveal the name of that person.      A similar demand was made in a press statement, issued by the PPP central secretariat.      But in the words of Ms Aurangzeb, who also called on Mr Khan to name the middleman; “I think Imran Khan is fixing his own price.”

Govt response      To refute the allegation, State Minister for information Marriyum Aurangzeb held a press conference at the Press Information Department (PID) on Wednesday, where she criticized both Mr Khan and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), whose leader had also trained his gun on the ruling party a day earlier.      Accusing the PPP of having drifted away from its ideology, Ms Aurangzeb, remained critical of Mr Khan, describing him as being “naïve about politics”.      “He is a juggler; he started with the slogan of election rigging, moved on the phrase that an umpire is set to raise his finger, and has now resorted to criticizing all state institutions, including the Election Commission and judges of the apex court,” she said.      After branding Mr Khan “a liar” for making the Rs10 billion claim, she said the government was not interested in getting him to quiet down.      “Whatever he says in indirectly beneficial for us; whenever he criticizes us, he makes mockery of himself,” the minister said, adding: “This lends credence to the more mature, sober and responsible PM Nawaz Sharif, who also heads the largest political party in the country.”      She claimed that the petitions filed by Senator Sirajul Haq, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad and Imran Khan had been rejected by the Supreme Court due to a lack of credibility, whereas the judgment had cleared PM Sharif. Reaction to Khan’s Claim Other political parties, such as the PPP