JOURNALISM A PROFESSION OR A CRAFT?

JOURNALISM A PROFESSION OR A CRAFT Presentation The Oxford Advanced Learners lexicon (2010; 808) characterizes news-casting as “the work of gathering and composing news stories for daily papers, magazines, radio and TV.” There has dependably been a disarray on whether news coverage is a calling of a specialty. Reporting has dependably been seen as some sort of fine art, when contrasted with different callings. This is because of the way that when individuals consider news coverage, they constrain it to composing, showing and babble. This blog entry will examine in points of interest why Journalism is viewed as a calling instead of an art. Reporting simply like some other calling, has a few components to it, for example, the way of life of news-casting, gatekeeping in media and morals. These components will be talked about later in this post. WHY JOURNALISM IS CONSIDERED A PROFESSION The term calling is depicted as […]

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Differentiate it from the terms Development Communication and Development Journalism

Define the term Development Support Communication and differentiate it from the terms Development Communication and Development Journalism.  Development Communication Development Communication has been alternatively defined as a type of marketing and public opinion research that is used specifically to develop effective communication or as the use of communication to promote social development. Defined as the former, it often includes computerized linguistics analysis of verbatim responses to qualitative survey interviews and may, at times also involved consumer psychological “right brain” (emotional) research techniques. Defined at the latter, it refers to the practice of systematically applying the processes, strategies, and principles of communication to bring about positive social change. As most providers of “communication development” research use proprietary approaches that cannot be elaborated upon without revealing proprietary trade secrets, the remainder of this article describes the latter definition. “the art and science of human communication linked to a society’s planned transformation from […]

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