Chapter 2 : Types of Journalism
Topics covered in this snack-sized chapter:
Journalism is no longer restricted to coverage of breaking news. The journalists also have to deliver content belonging to various fields.
Journalism has to cover news and happenings taking place in various fields.
Journalism aims to uncover the truth, expose all the possibilities and reveal the real face.
It also aims to create impact on the society and generate needs in the society.
For the same, various types of Journalism have been defined. These are as follows:
- Business and finance Journalism
- Feature writing Journalism
- Yellow Journalism (or sensationalism)
Writing to advocate particular viewpoints or influence the opinions of the audience.
Ambush journalism refers to aggressive tactics practiced by journalists to suddenly confront and question people who otherwise do not wish to speak to a journalist.
Writing or speaking which is intended to be distributed by radio or television broadcasting, rather than only in written form for readers.
Here, the journalist covers news and happenings related to the business and finance field.
The news are related to latest developments, stock markets, budget decisions, new business deals and market rates as well.
Finance journals, business channels and finance related magazines are related to business and finance journalism.
It refers to journalism about covering news and happenings taking place in the professional and personal life of celebrities.
This type of journalism is possible with magazine, televisions and newspapers.
The content is more of gossip type in celebrity journalism.
It also includes covering news about celebrities from sports, entertainment and art field also.
Churnalism is the creation of articles from press releases, wire stories and other unoriginal material.
The concept of citizen journalism (also known as "public", "participatory”, “democratic", "guerrilla “or "street" journalism) is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information."
Community journalism is locally oriented, professional news coverage that typically focuses on city neighborhoods, individual suburbs or small towns, rather than metropolitan, state, national or world news.
An emerging form of journalism, which combines different forms of journalism, such as print, photographic and video, into one piece or group of pieces.
Use of drones to capture journalistic footage.
It is all about articles, news and happenings related to the fashion world.
The people covering fashion journalism are known as fashion journalists.
There works can be found out or read in lifestyle and fashion magazine.
Their primary job is to cover all the latest developments in fashion world.
It also covers fashion shows, inaugurations and new designs as well.
It has highest word count in all types of journalism.
It covers in depth interpretation, coverage of stories in related issues as well.
Cover stories with interviews are also included in feature writing journalism.
It provides a different perspective about the subject on which writing is done.
First championed by journalist Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalism is a "highly personal style of reporting".
Gonzo journalism is a style of journalism that is written without claims of objectivity, often including the reporter as part of the story via a first-person narrative.
This kind of journalism refers to investigating, exploring more about a particular case or scandal.
It tends to reveal and expose unknown facts.
- Example: Murder case, Mystery case etc.
It uncovers and solves cases.
It requires more efforts, and may even take months or years to get completed.
It is highly challenging job.
- It may even have risk of life.
Storytelling through images.
They are partly opinion and partly fact based content.
Review includes writing about the nature, presence of the content as movie review as to what they are how they were presented.
In review, one also has presented their opinion, point of view from their own side.
The reviews can be biased or unbiased.
Science journalists must understand and interpret very detailed, technical and sometimes jargon-laden information and render it into interesting reports that are comprehensible to consumers of news media.
Here, the journalists spend time reporting about sports events and regularly gives updates.
The time duration depends upon length of the match or sports event.
Writing which uses opinionated or wild claims.
Writing which emphasizes exaggerated claims or rumors.