Course Name: NEWS WRITING
The course will introduce the students to news writing and reporting: How to write the lead/intro, techniques of news writing and reporting, news sources and techniques for news gathering This course is designed to train you to become skilled in writing publishable news stories. The course examines the basic definitions of news, types of news, news values, structures of news, and journalistic news presentation formats. The course also examines the various types of headline, leads, and the inverted pyramid, transitions and news structure.