All of you must be reading newspapers. Why is it called a newspaper ?
Because it contains news. Have you ever thought about how we get news?
There are various sources of news . You can hear it on the radio, view it on a
television channel, read it in a newspaper or surf it on internet in a computer.
News is something that you come across everyday in your life.
What makes news? John Bogart has given this comment that became
synonymous with news . When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because
it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. Though this may
seem true, sometimes, when a dog bites a man that can also become news.
Suppose a dog bites a famous filmstar, it definitely makes big news.
It is said that the letters in the word “NEWS” is derived from the four
directions as indicated below:
N orth
E ast
W est
S outh
This shows that news can come from anywhere. News is the report of a
current event, something that was not known, information of recent events
and happenings.
DEFINITION OF NEWS
News is a report of a current event. It is information about something that
has just happened or will happen soon. News is a report about recent
happenings in a newspaper, television , radio or internet. News is something
that is not known earlier. From all these, we can safely define news as a
development that has happened in the past 24 hours which was not known
outside and which is of wide interest to the people and that which generates
curiosity among listeners.
Let us consider a few examples.
You have heard a news broadcast on the radio .Twenty people died in a train
accident. You don’t consider it as news concerning you. Lots of accidents
happen in various places every day. But after some time you hear that
passengers in the compartment which met with the accident are from your
village. Now you become more alert. The news becomes important for you.
You are anxious to know the condition of passengers. Are they safe? Is
anyone hurt or hospitalised?
Fig 6.1: Accident Report
At least 34 people were killed and around 50 injured in a head-on collision between two
passenger trains in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab on Tuesday.
The collision occurred between the Jammu Tawi Ahmedabad express and Jalandhar-
Pathankot Diesel Multiple Unit passenger train at Mansar, around 40 km from Jalandhar,
at noon.
Sources said both trains were given the green signal on the single-line Jalandhar-
Pathankot section of the Northern Railway. While the local train was cleared from the
Bangara railway station, the Ahmedabad-bound express train was given the go ahead
from Chak Kalan.
General Manager, Northern Railway, Satish Mohan Vaish, said: "It's obvious that one of
the two stations involved goofed up."
Paramjit Singh Saraho, DIG (Jalandhar range), told NDTV India from the spot that 28
bodies were removed from the wreckage. The injured, he said, were admitted to the Civil
Hospital in Mukerian and Army Hospital in Pathankot.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, in a statement in the state assembly, put the
number of fatalities at 50.
You are in no way connected with the presentation of the central budget in
parliament. But when the Finance Minister, while presenting the budget,
announces a hike in the prices of petroleum products, you suddenly become
interested in the news. You want to know how much is the increase. Will it
affect your pocket? How much is the increase for a cooking gas cylinder?
The news becomes quite important for you.
Counting of votes is going on in your constituency. Election to the state
assembly is going on. As the counting progresses, you become eager to know
the lead positions. At the end of the counting, you want to know who has
won the seat. So it is news which you wanted to know without delay.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEWS AND INFORMATION
In the railway station, you might have noticed the board displaying the train
timings. That is not news. That is information. But information becomes
news when news value is added to it. For example, if a new train time table
is issued by the railways replacing the existing one with changes in train
timings, that becomes news. Similarly, the different slabs of income tax rates is not news. But when the
government decides to increase or lower the rates, it becomes news.
You might have seen weather reports in the newspapers. It gives the day’s
temperature or rainfall. It does not make news. It becomes news when there
is a sudden change in weather, or when heavy rains lead to floods or when
continuous absence of rain leads to drought.
So information is different from news. News should give something new to
the readers, viewers or listeners.
WHAT MAKES NEWS ?
It is generally said that if a news report provides answers to six questions,
then it is a perfect news item. These six questions include five Ws and one
H. The five Ws are When? Where? What ? Why? and Who?.The H is How?
Suppose you hear a news like this. A boy is kidnapped while coming back
from the school. Naturally the first question that arises in your mind will be
when it had happened and where? Then you are keen to know what the full
story of the incident was . Then you ask the question, why has it happened?
Also you want to know about the kidnappers . Who were they? And finally
the news becomes complete only when you get from the news how the
kidnapping happened. Unless a news item satisfies all these six questions of
the reader or listener, the news is incomplete.
A tragic end for kidnapped Delhi child
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: A 10-year-old school boy who was kidnapped from Rohini in
Delhi this past Monday for a ransom of Rs.1.5 crore had a gruesome end: he
was strangled by his kidnapper who developed cold feet on discovering the
child unconscious in the boot of his car. The police have recovered the
child’s body at Sonepat in Haryana and arrested the kidnapper.
Vipul Kansal, a Class IV student of G. D. Goenka Public School in Rohini,
went missing on Monday afternoon soon after he was dropped near his
house in Neel Kanth Society by the school van. Even as his relatives
launched a frantic search for Vipul, his mother received a phone call saying
he had been kidnapped. The caller made the child talk to his mother and
demanded Rs.1.5 crore for his release.
Because it contains news. Have you ever thought about how we get news?
There are various sources of news . You can hear it on the radio, view it on a
television channel, read it in a newspaper or surf it on internet in a computer.
News is something that you come across everyday in your life.
What makes news? John Bogart has given this comment that became
synonymous with news . When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because
it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. Though this may
seem true, sometimes, when a dog bites a man that can also become news.
Suppose a dog bites a famous filmstar, it definitely makes big news.
It is said that the letters in the word “NEWS” is derived from the four
directions as indicated below:
N orth
E ast
W est
S outh
This shows that news can come from anywhere. News is the report of a
current event, something that was not known, information of recent events
and happenings.
DEFINITION OF NEWS
News is a report of a current event. It is information about something that
has just happened or will happen soon. News is a report about recent
happenings in a newspaper, television , radio or internet. News is something
that is not known earlier. From all these, we can safely define news as a
development that has happened in the past 24 hours which was not known
outside and which is of wide interest to the people and that which generates
curiosity among listeners.
Let us consider a few examples.
You have heard a news broadcast on the radio .Twenty people died in a train
accident. You don’t consider it as news concerning you. Lots of accidents
happen in various places every day. But after some time you hear that
passengers in the compartment which met with the accident are from your
village. Now you become more alert. The news becomes important for you.
You are anxious to know the condition of passengers. Are they safe? Is
anyone hurt or hospitalised?
Fig 6.1: Accident Report
At least 34 people were killed and around 50 injured in a head-on collision between two
passenger trains in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab on Tuesday.
The collision occurred between the Jammu Tawi Ahmedabad express and Jalandhar-
Pathankot Diesel Multiple Unit passenger train at Mansar, around 40 km from Jalandhar,
at noon.
Sources said both trains were given the green signal on the single-line Jalandhar-
Pathankot section of the Northern Railway. While the local train was cleared from the
Bangara railway station, the Ahmedabad-bound express train was given the go ahead
from Chak Kalan.
General Manager, Northern Railway, Satish Mohan Vaish, said: "It's obvious that one of
the two stations involved goofed up."
Paramjit Singh Saraho, DIG (Jalandhar range), told NDTV India from the spot that 28
bodies were removed from the wreckage. The injured, he said, were admitted to the Civil
Hospital in Mukerian and Army Hospital in Pathankot.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, in a statement in the state assembly, put the
number of fatalities at 50.
You are in no way connected with the presentation of the central budget in
parliament. But when the Finance Minister, while presenting the budget,
announces a hike in the prices of petroleum products, you suddenly become
interested in the news. You want to know how much is the increase. Will it
affect your pocket? How much is the increase for a cooking gas cylinder?
The news becomes quite important for you.
Counting of votes is going on in your constituency. Election to the state
assembly is going on. As the counting progresses, you become eager to know
the lead positions. At the end of the counting, you want to know who has
won the seat. So it is news which you wanted to know without delay.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEWS AND INFORMATION
In the railway station, you might have noticed the board displaying the train
timings. That is not news. That is information. But information becomes
news when news value is added to it. For example, if a new train time table
is issued by the railways replacing the existing one with changes in train
timings, that becomes news. Similarly, the different slabs of income tax rates is not news. But when the
government decides to increase or lower the rates, it becomes news.
You might have seen weather reports in the newspapers. It gives the day’s
temperature or rainfall. It does not make news. It becomes news when there
is a sudden change in weather, or when heavy rains lead to floods or when
continuous absence of rain leads to drought.
So information is different from news. News should give something new to
the readers, viewers or listeners.
WHAT MAKES NEWS ?
It is generally said that if a news report provides answers to six questions,
then it is a perfect news item. These six questions include five Ws and one
H. The five Ws are When? Where? What ? Why? and Who?.The H is How?
Suppose you hear a news like this. A boy is kidnapped while coming back
from the school. Naturally the first question that arises in your mind will be
when it had happened and where? Then you are keen to know what the full
story of the incident was . Then you ask the question, why has it happened?
Also you want to know about the kidnappers . Who were they? And finally
the news becomes complete only when you get from the news how the
kidnapping happened. Unless a news item satisfies all these six questions of
the reader or listener, the news is incomplete.
A tragic end for kidnapped Delhi child
Staff Reporter
NEW DELHI: A 10-year-old school boy who was kidnapped from Rohini in
Delhi this past Monday for a ransom of Rs.1.5 crore had a gruesome end: he
was strangled by his kidnapper who developed cold feet on discovering the
child unconscious in the boot of his car. The police have recovered the
child’s body at Sonepat in Haryana and arrested the kidnapper.
Vipul Kansal, a Class IV student of G. D. Goenka Public School in Rohini,
went missing on Monday afternoon soon after he was dropped near his
house in Neel Kanth Society by the school van. Even as his relatives
launched a frantic search for Vipul, his mother received a phone call saying
he had been kidnapped. The caller made the child talk to his mother and
demanded Rs.1.5 crore for his release.
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