Course Main Objective
The course aims to give a historical glimpse of news agencies and their types including film, printed and video news and their divisions and how they are operated, the role of news agency director along with explaining media types in these agencies and how to edit a news item.
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
- 1.1 Define structure of the news agency and work divisions as well as the types of news agencies and sources of news and how to edit a news item.
- 2. Skills
- 2.1 Employ information derived from news agencies to edit news and decide on it.
- 2.2 Employ digital technology used in the news agencies observing the media policy of the agency.
- 3. Values
- 3.1 Evaluate group performance within framework of groups.
Course Content
- Definition of a news agency.
- A historical glimpse of news agencies.
- News sources in news agencies.
- Types of news agencies.
- Divisions of news agencies.
- Code of ethics for news agency journalism: role and ethics of editor and correspondent, responsibility of newspaper.
- Media types in news agencies.
- News item and its types and editing in news agencies.
- Criticizing, analyzing and applying news and professional values to reports and news of news agencies.
- Journal processing of news coming from news agencies + the political policy of news agency.
- Exercises on writing a news item of news agency.
- Photo in news agencies.
Textbook (s)
- Seham, Hassan. A. news Agencies and News Control. Dar Usama, Jordan, 2014, 1st ed.
- Al-Metwaly, Amal. (2003). The Arts of Press Editing. Dar Al-Israa, Cairo.
- Mazkour, Marei. (2002). News Journalism. Dar Al-Shorouk, Cairo.
Course ID: JOUR 405
| Credit hours | Theory | Practical | Laboratory | Lecture | Studio | Contact hours | Pre-requisite | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | - |
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