Components of News Report:
There are four parts of New Report:
1. Headline
2. Byline (According to CBSE books)
3. Lead/Intro
4. Main Body
Technique To Prepare Effective Headline:
1. Use of Simple Present Tense:
Purpose: i) To maintain freshness of the news.
e.g. India beats Pak by 4 wicket
(India defeated Pak yesterday but Headline is in Simple Present)
ii) To give reader a feeling of actual presence at the place of occurence
2. Short form of Passive Voice
i) To give more importance to the 'Action' than the 'Doer'
e.g. 5 killed in accident (5 persons were killed in and accident)
ii) To make headline Short and Effective.
e.g. 5 militants gunned down in Uri
3. Use of Active Voice:
i) To show 'Doer' is more important than the 'Action'
e.g. Prime Minister visits quake victims
ii) To create feeling of urgency
e.g. Thieves grab 1 crores gems (Urgency)
4. Omission of ARTICLES ('a' , 'an' 'the' ) from the Headline :
for .e.g. Patil wants assembly meet
for .e.g. Patil wants assembly meet
(Patil wants an assembly meet) Removed 'An'
5. Use of conctrete and vivid words:
for e.g Thieves grab 1 croes gems
is prefered to
Valuable jewellery stolen
5. Use of conctrete and vivid words:
for e.g Thieves grab 1 croes gems
is prefered to
Valuable jewellery stolen
By line: Name of the News Agency or Correspondence who drafted the News:
e.g. By Press Trust of India
Or
By Zee News
Dateline : Consists of
i) City Name
ii)Month Name
iii) News Agency/Correspondence (if not mentioned after headline)
(In newspapers News Agency/correspondents name is sometimes mentioned in the headline)
e.g. MUMBAI, July,29 (PTI)
MUMBAI, JULY:
Lead/Intro : 30 to 40 words , It introduces us to the main story so it is called intro. It leads us
the main body of the news so it is called lead also.
5 persons were killed and many others were injured yesterday evening when a
bus collided into a car near Sardar Bridge, Surat killing 5 and injuring 10 others. Injureds had been rushed to civil hospital Surat two of them are reported to be in critical condition.
Lead/Intro : 30 to 40 words , It introduces us to the main story so it is called intro. It leads us
the main body of the news so it is called lead also.
5 persons were killed and many others were injured yesterday evening when a
bus collided into a car near Sardar Bridge, Surat killing 5 and injuring 10 others. Injureds had been rushed to civil hospital Surat two of them are reported to be in critical condition.
Main Body : Contains one or more than one paragraphs containing
Most important Info
More Important Info.
Important Info
Less Important Info
Least Important Info
e.g. of a News Report
Health
Ministry sends 2 teams to Gujarat, Punjab to
assist states in containing swine flu
By Press
Trust of India |
NEW DELHI , FEBRUARY: The death
toll due to swine flu in the country has soared to 226 with the H1N1 virus
claiming 31 more lives in a week till Monday, while the number of those
affected crossed the 6,000 mark.
In view of rising cases of
swine flu and deaths due to the disease in Gujarat and Punjab, the Union Health
Ministry has sent two teams to assess the situation and assist the states in
strengthening their response mechanism to contain the ailment.
Fifty-four
deaths and 1,187 cases were reported in Gujarat till February 7, while 30
deaths and 301 cases were reported from Punjab, according to data by the Health
Ministry.
“Two central teams have been sent to Gujarat and
Punjab as they have reported large number of fatalities due to the H1N1
infection,” said an official from the ministry
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