How to be a Journalist in the 21st century

by Andre Gouws and NWU students

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This textbook is an introduction to journalism, in the African and South African context, written for digital natives. The textbook is unique in the sense that students and the lecturer wrote it together, it is therefore a resource that focuses on learning through the eyes of students in Africa and the things they would like to learn to become journalists.

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Publisher
North-West University
Subjects
Social Sciences, Communication
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
Who can read
Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. 1: Journalism in the 21st Century
  7. 1.1: The Role of Journalism in the Digital Era
  8. 2: The Mass Media and Mass Communication
  9. 2.1: The Public Sphere
  10. 2.2: Technology and Mass Media
  11. 2.3: Books – The beginning of Printed Mass Media
  12. 2.4: Newspapers
  13. 2.5: Magazines
  14. 2.6: Radio
  15. 2.7: Television
  16. 2.8: The Internet
  17. 2.9: Who are the audience?
  18. 2.10: Media Effects
  19. 2.11: The Functions of the Mass Media
  20. 2.12: Some Functions of Journalism
  21. 2.13: Media Qwnership
  22. 3: What is News?
  23. 3.1: Some News Values
  24. 3.2: What do the audience want?
  25. 3.3: Types of News
  26. 3.4: News beats
  27. 3.5: How to find the News
  28. 4: The Work of the Journalist
  29. 4.1: Journalistic Roles in Newsrooms
  30. 4.2: News Providers and their Structures
  31. 4.3: Journalistic Genres
  32. 5: Finding and Compiling your Story
  33. 5.1: Objectivity, Fairness, and Credibility
  34. 5.2: Story Types
  35. 5.3: The Information you need for a News Story
  36. 5.4: Gathering Information
  37. 6: Telling News Stories
  38. 6.1: Focus
  39. 6.2: Good News Writing
  40. 6.3: Introductions
  41. 6.4: Story Structure
  42. 6.5: Feature Stories
  43. 6.6: Sub-editing
  44. 6.7: Broadcasting- Telling Audio and Audio-Visual Stories
  45. 6.8: Graphics
  46. 6.9: Managing Social Media
  47. 6.10: The News Day
  48. 7: Being an Ethical Journalist
  49. 7.1: Ethical Principles
  50. 7.2: Ethics Codes and Laws
  51. 7.3: Legal Issues
  52. 7.4: Ethical Decision-making
  53. 7.5: What happens if you make a mistake?
  54. 7.6: Ethics Handbooks
  55. 8: Media and Information Literacy
  56. 8.1: The five areas of Media and Information Literacy
  57. 8.2: Fake News and Disinformation
  58. 9: Become a Journalism Entrepreneur
  59. 9.1: Independent journalism creators
  60. 9.2: Create a community news platform
  61. 9.3: Freelancing
  62. 9.4: News Influencers
  63. 10: Appendix
  64. 10.1: Student Stories
  65. 10.2: YouTube page
  66. 10.3: References
  67. Back Matter
  68. Index
  69. Glossary
  70. Detailed Licensing
  71. Detailed Licensing