ZUR130 Introduction to news reporting

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
1/2. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jaroslav Čuřík, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Rudolf Burgr, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Pavel Galík (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavel Gejdoš (seminar tutor)
Anežka Michnová (assistant)
Guaranteed by
Ing. Rudolf Burgr, Ph.D.
Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Ing. Bc. Pavlína Brabcová
Supplier department: Department of Media Studies and Journalism – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 8:45–9:30 AVC
  • Timetable of Seminar Groups:
ZUR130/01: Tue 9:45–11:15 PC54, J. Čuřík
ZUR130/02: Thu 8:00–9:30 PC54, P. Galík
ZUR130/03: Tue 13:30–15:00 PC54, R. Burgr
ZUR130/04: Thu 9:45–11:15 PC54, P. Galík
ZUR130/05: Wed 9:45–11:15 PC54, P. Gejdoš
Prerequisites (in Czech)
ZUR105 Introduction to news reporting
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 75 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/75, only registered: 0/75
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course offers basic information about news reporting. In particular, the aim is to familiarise students with basic news genres in printed media both theoretically and practically, to teach them how to work with sources, and familiarise them with essential rules of editing journalist texts written by other authors, as well as agency news.

After completing the course, the students will have the knowledge of contemporary news reporting and characteristics of genres, and will have an overview of using the genres in contemporary (mainly Czech) printed media. In the course, the students will also gain and acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for producing texts on a professional level. The course focuses mainly on the currently most frequently used news genres.
Syllabus
  • Basic themes of lectures:
  • 1. Defining the issues of news reporting, basic terms, news genres used in printed media, and a short news item.
  • 2. News reporting requirements (objectivity, balance, and impartiality), language of news, overlapping of genres, and a news report.
  • 3. Selection of sources and working with them, survey.
  • 4. Selection of topics, relevance, news values, columns and sections, thematic areas of news, and agency news.
  • 5. News editorial team, reporter's profession, organisation of work, routines, and emergency and crisis situations.
  • 6. Journalism and public relations, press releases issued by authorities, offices, institutions and organisations, and press conferences.
  • 7. Impact of technologies onto news reporting and multimedia news reporting.
  • 8. News feature and emotions in the news.
  • 9. Ethics and law in the news and authorisation.
  • 10. News interview.
  • 11. Investigative journalism.
  • 12. Editing.

    Seminar content:
  • 1. Presenting the seminar content and assigning tasks.
  • 2. Short news report (in brief, local report, and notice), exercise and practical test.
  • 3. News report, exercise and practical test.
  • 4. Survey, exercise and practical test.
  • 5. Working with agency news, exercise.
  • 6. Transcribing agency news, exercise and practical test (transcribing a news items issued by the Czech News Agency).
  • 7. Working with press releases issued by offices, authorities, institutions, and organisations, exercise.
  • 8. Working with the documents obtained at a press conference, exercise and practical test.
  • 9. News feature, exercise.
  • 10. News feature, exercise and practical test.
  • 11. News interview, exercise and practical test.
  • 12. Elements of editing, exercise.
  • 13. Final practical test.
Literature
  • BECH-KARLSEN, Jo. Být přitom :reportáž jako žánr a metoda. 1. vyd. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1991, 208 s. ISBN 82-7147-094-9. info
  • BROOKS, Brian. News reporting and writing. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999, xxiv, 579. ISBN 0312180195. info
  • BURNS, Lynette Sheridan. Žurnalistika : [praktická příručka pro novináře]. Translated by Hana Antonínová. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2004, 186 s. ISBN 8071788716. info
  • CAPPON, René J. The Associated Press guide to news writing. 3rd ed. Forest City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 2000, vii, 136. ISBN 0028637550. info
  • Making the local news : local journalism in context. Edited by Bob Franklin - David Murphy. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1998, xi, 273 s. ISBN 0-415-16802-3. info
  • JAMIESON, Kathleen Hall and Paul WALDMAN. The press effect : politicians, journalists, and the stories that shape the political world. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003, xvii, 220. ISBN 0195173295. URL info
  • MALLETTE, Malcolm F. Příručka pro novináře střední a východní Evropy. Praha: Lidové noviny, 1994, 161 s. ISBN 80-7106-045-3. info
  • MCQUAIL, Denis. Úvod do teorie masové komunikace. Translated by Jan Jirák - Marcel Kabát. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 1999, 447 s. ISBN 80-7178-200-9. info
  • MENCHER, Melvin. News reporting and writing. 9th ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003, 1 v. ISBN 0072491949. info
  • OSVALDOVÁ, Barbora and Alena LÁBOVÁ. Zpravodajství v médiích. Vyd. 1. V Praze: Karolinum, 2001, 155 s. ISBN 8024602482. info
  • RUSS-MOHL, Stephan. Žurnalistika : komplexní průvodce praktickou žurnalistikou. Translated by Hana Bakičová. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2005, 292 s. ISBN 8024701588. info
  • SCHWARTZ, Jerry. Associated Press reporting handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002, ix, 219. ISBN 0071372172. URL info
  • STOVALL, James Glen. Web journalism : practice and promise of a new medium. Boston: Pearson Education, 2004, xv, 239. ISBN 0205353983. info
  • TRAMPOTA, Tomáš. Zpravodajství. Vyd. 1. Praha: Portál, 2006, 191 s. ISBN 8073670968. URL info
  • TUŠER, Andrej. Ako sa robia noviny. 2., upr. vyd. Bratislava: SOFA, 2003, 163 s. ISBN 8089033261. info
  • VEĽAS, Štefan. Teória a prax novinárskych žánrov. 2. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2000, 66 s. ISBN 80-223-1493-5. info
  • TUŠER, Andrej and Mária FOLLRICHOVÁ. Teória a prax novinárskych žánrov. 2. vyd. Bratislava: Univerzita Komenského, 2001, 106 s. ISBN 80-223-1555-9. info
Teaching methods
Theoretical preparation.

Practical journalistic assignments.
Assessment methods
Lectures in which students are familiarised with individual topics according to the course syllable. Producing texts in individual genres is subsequently the content of seminars.

The course may be completed successfully by only those students who submit, within deadlines and in sufficient quality, all the tasks assigned in lectures and seminars, pass the final test based on the lectures and, receive a sufficient number of points for practical tasks assigned in seminars (it is not allowed to use tasks prepared in another course), and pass the final practical test of journalist skills.

In case of practical task (articles) the lecturers evaluate the formal requisites, factual correctness, grammar, originality, style and respecting the genre.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Přednostní právo zápisu mají studenti oborové specializace "žurnalistika", a to i v případě, že se přihlásí později než studenti jiných specializací a oborů.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Spring 2011, Autumn 2011, Spring 2012, Autumn 2012, Spring 2013, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Spring 2015, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019, Autumn 2019, Spring 2020.
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