News Sources
• In journalism, a source is a person, publication, or other record or document that gives timely information. Sources of news are everywhere.
• Eg - Official records, publications or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, witnesses of crime, and most importantly involved people.
• Most sources are not confidential. Research indicates that anonymous sourcing undermines credibility. When a source requests anonymity, they are referred to as a "confidential source".
• The phrase on the record is used to refer to making an audio or video recording, making a transcription, or taking minutes.
• ACADEMIC JOURNALS: Research by academics, published in journals is a frequent source of news stories.
• COMMERCE & TRADE: business organizations can be useful source of news stories or comments about anything from interest rates, shares to shopping.
• LIBRARIES: Though it is hard to believe but the truth is that not everything is available on the Internet. Libraries retain a useful role in providing access to reference books, company reports, local history achieves, indexes of local societies, community notice boards and so on.
• NEWS AGENCIES: They are the foot soldiers of journalism at a national and international level, allowing media organizations to cover stories in areas where they have few or no staff. Agencies keep a check on offices and local bodies and look out for news stories here.
• NEWS RELEASES: News or press releases are point of reference for the journalists while covering an event.
• Attributions-
• In journalism Attribution is the identification of the source of reported information.
• Attribution means to tell your readers or listeners the name and title of the person you interviewed or document you got the information from.
• Sometimes, attributions can be avoided. This simply means that the information given can be used but the source must not be identified. Individuals can be quoted and depending on the source, their general occupation can be named. For instance, someone may be named as a "senior Justice Department official" or a "spokesman" without the speaker's name.
• Byline-
• BY LINE: When the staff reporters or correspondents of the newspaper file news stories, there are three ways of mentioning it. First, credit is given by mentioning the name of the journalist. This is called giving by-line and is used only in special cases when the journalist has done something more than the usual.
• Second, designation of the person who has filed the story is given. EXAMPLES: Our Special Correspondent, Our Correspondent, Our Staff Reporter, HT Correspondent, etc.
• Credit Line-
• CREDIT LINE: Credit line contains information about the source from where the news has been taken for publication. The news may be taken form a news agency and the abbreviated form of the name of the agency is used.
• When the news has been picked from more than one news agency either the names of all the agencies are given or Agencies is mentioned in the credit line. In some newspapers the name of the agency is given at the end of the news.
• EXAMPLES: PTI (Press Trust of India), UNI (United News of India), Bhasha (Hindi), Varta (Hindi), AP (Associated Press), Reuter etc.
• Embargo-
• Embargoes are typically used by government or corporate representatives working in publicity or public relations, and are often arranged in advance as part of a formal or informal agreement.
• Sometimes publishers will release advance copies of a book to reviewers with the agreement that reviews of it will not appear before the official release date of the publication.
• Complex scientific news might also require advance notice with an embargo. Governments also have legitimate reasons for imposing embargoes, often so as to prevent news reports being an unfair or undue influence over votes in legislative bodies.
• Artists' names and locations of performances are sometimes embargoed pending the official announcement of the scheduled performance tour.
• It’s a Mandatory deadline for the release of a story. A news embargo is a request by a source that the information or news provided by that source not be published until a certain date or certain conditions have been met.
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