Mastering Beats in Journalism (Specialized Reporting, Editing and Emerging Technologies in the Digital Era), Ist Edition

Mastering Beats in Journalism: Specialized Reporting, Editing and Emerging Technologies in the Digital Era, aims to equip budding journalists with the tools and best practices related to different thematic specializations in journalism. Written by eminent journalists and leading media scholars, this text is an exhaustive resource filled with insights on traditional beats like defence, politics, court, crime, sports and entertainment besides exclusive chapters on rural reporting, storytelling, photo journalism and cartooning, social media reporting, misinformation and fake news, solution based journalism, among others.

The content is designed as per NEP 2020 and chapter contributors are reputed senior journalists from AajTak, India Today, Amrit Bazaar Patrika, The Tribune, The Statesman, The Hindu, Outlook, BBC, NDTV, and many other leading media houses.

Features –

Emerging forms of journalism like blockchain and bots, podcasts, mobile journalism (MOJO), drone journalism (DOJO) and data journalism

Role of AI and digital technologies in news gathering and reportage besides issues of identity, data, research and analysis in new age journalism

Enormous range of examples, case studies and first hand experiences of eminent journalists and media educators