Intended for journalists in developing countries, this manual gives an account of the functions carried out in the newsroom. The first section deals with aspects of the reporter's job, including news writing and stylistics, interviewing, and press law. The second section discusses the duties of the
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news editor, including maintaining perennial sources, thinking ahead, following up on hard news items, promoting creative angles to news stories, and cultivating news from rural areas. The third section covers components of subediting, such as design and layout, typography, headline and caption writing, and elements of style. The fourth section explores developing ideas for feature writing, while the last section outlines principles of photo editing.
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"Intended for journalists in developing countries, this manual gives an account of the functions carried out in the newsroom. The first section deals with aspects of the reporter's job, including news writing and stylistics, interviewing, and press law. The second section discusses the duties of the
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news editor, including maintaining perennial sources, thinking ahead, following up on hard news items, promoting creative angles to news stories, and cultivating news from rural areas. The third section covers components of subediting, such as design and layout, typography, headline and caption writing, and elements of style. The fourth section explores developing ideas for feature writing, while the last section outlines principles of photo editing." (commbox)
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"As political freedom came to the Continent, so did press freedom disappear," is Barton's opening sentence. Although his attitude is definitely colonial, this statement is not as prejudiced as it first appears, for he attempts to put it in a historical perspective by making the case that this trend
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in Africa has happened in many non-African countries which today claim some sort of press freedom. Against this background he surveys in breadth rather than depth first the white colonial press and then the emergent black press in French-speaking Africa, East and Central Africa, Portuguese Africa, "the White South," Swaziland, and "unconquered Africa" - Liberia and Ethiopia. He omits Arab Africa because he feels the cultural differences to be too great." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 27)
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"The reader of these pages may sense what amounts to deep uneasiness underlying the words of the author — the uneasiness Frank Barton felt at the enormity of the task he and IPI undertook in Afr
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ica. His story of a six-year undertaking which was sometimes thrilling and sometimes sheer uphill slogging is told with simplicity of style and personal modesty of approach, but through it shines the sort of desperate affection he feels for the continent he knows so well. Having made his career in African journalism, Barton, first as chief lecturer and then as director, becarne the driving force of the programme für training English-speaking African journalists which Tom Hopkinson inaugurated in 1963. What Barton mentions very little and even seems deiiberately to hide, is his own leading part in the conception and operation of this programme. As an open-hearted man who knew how to translate into simple and direct terms the love of Africa which moves hirn, he was an incomparable animator of the scheme and it rests with the Director of IPI to say this with gratitude. In cold statistics, what the IPI training programme achieved in a continent of the size of Africa is srnall indeed. But the figures should not conceal from those who do not know Africa and have never lived there what patience, imagination and resourcefulness was necessary to bring together 311 students from 18 African countries and to instil into them the rudiments of modern journalism." (Foreword by Ernest Meyer, director IPI)
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"L'accès de la femme africaine à des cours de formation de journalistes, organisés par l'I.I.P. en Afrique." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 192, topic code 163.21)
"Les matières couvrent tous les aspects du journalisme depuis le reportage jusqu'au secrétariat de rédaction — La pénurie des cadres engendre des imitations mutuelles — C'est ainsi que le programme de l'I.I.P. pour l'Afrique se propose de faire prendre conscience des problèmes de la presse
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et du rôle des ministères d'information." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 193, topic code 163.20)
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"The IPI's African training programmes consist of three six-month courses in Nairobi and Lagos — Importance and purpose of these training courses — Results achieved." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 194, top
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ic code 163.21)
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"Compte rendu du ler cours à Nairobi — Liste des pays participants — Contenu des cours et des travaux pratiques." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 191, topic code 163.21)