Matakuliah : O0394 – Teknik Reportase dan News Caster
Tahun
: 2010
News: One of Journalism Products
Pertemuan 01 - 02
Learning Objectives
This session is aimed at taking a glimpse of news as
an essential product of journalism, the types of
news and how news relates with mass media. This
part will be the first discussion before entering the
discussion on reporting and newscaster techniques.
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NEWS of Today (1/6)
The varied definitions of news
Doug Newsom and James A Wollert, in Media Writing:
News for the Mass Media:
News is anything that people need to know.
Delivering news means giving the required information
to the people.
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NEWS of Today (2/6)
Paul De Massener, in Here’s The News: Unesco
Associate, stated that:
News is an important information that attracts
attention from people.
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NEWS of Today (3/6)
William C Bleyer, in Newspaper Writing and Editing:
News is the ‘hottest’ or the most update information
that is picked by the journalists for people/ others to
read. Or the journalists (can) make people read the
information.
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NEWS of Today (4/6)
William S Maulsby, in Getting the News argues that:
News can be defined as a neutral description of
current events/ facts which may attract the readers.
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NEWS of Today (5/6)
As for Haris Sumadiria, in Jurnalistik IndonesiaMenulis Berita dan Feature, he referred to all the
opinion on news and stated that:
News is the fastest report on newest facts or ideas
and the report is right, interesting, and important for
the audience of newspaper, radio, television, or online
media.
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NEWS of Today (6/6)
For example:
The controversial news on KPK (Corruption
Diminishing Commission) versus The Police and the
Court that began on June 2009 not only have
absorbed much of the ‘space’ in either broadcast
and print media but also raised the pros and contras
among people in Indonesia.
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (1/8)
In line with the description of journalistic profession
whose work is closely related to the activities of
searching, analyzing and preparing news, all the
products of journalism carries out news value.
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (2/8)
There are types of journalism products:
 Editorials
 Caricature
 Short statement (Corner)
 Article
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (3/8)

Editorials
It is a form of news that provides official
statement or how the media reacts on certain
issues.
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (4/8)

Caricature
It is a method of providing news in a form of
drawing, picture, or cartoon. The pictures
contain message, opinion or social critiques and
are conveyed in humorous ways.
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (5/8)
Is cartoon effective to convey messages?
An effective cartoon is when the cartoon has
successfully created fun (without feeling offense) to
others, including the cartoonists, when they see/
read the pictures/ news.
(Sudarta)
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (6/8)
In Indonesia, there are media which also convey their
messages in cartoon/ caricature.
For example:
- The daily KOMPAS
- The daily The Jakarta Post
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (7/8)

Corner
It is a ‘creative’ form (free style) of providing
news by taking the lines from sources. The
themes of corner can vary from social
economics, politics, military, sports,
environment, and so on.
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A Slight Reminder: Products of
Journalism (8/8)

Article
It is a form of providing news by people writing
news or private opinion on something that of
their interest/ concern. The purpose of the
writing is to inform, persuade, or to entertain.
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News and Mass Media (1/5)
Mass media is a means of communication that
operate on a large scale, reaching and involving
virtually everyone in a society to a greater or lesser
degree. (McQuail’s: 1983:4).
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News and Mass Media (2/5)
Mass media:
 Newspapers
 Magazines
 Film
 Radio and Television
 Internet
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News and Mass Media (3/5)
The roles of news in informing, conveying issues
and persuading communities by using media can be
referred to Lazarsfeld (1941)’s approaches on
media theory:
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News and Mass Media (4/5)
 Critical theory
seeks to expose underlying problems and faults
of media practice and to relate them in a
comprehensive way to social issues, guided by
certain values.
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News and Mass Media (5/5)
 Administrative Theory (applied theory)
aims to connect an understanding of
communication processes to solving practical
problems of using mass communication more
effectively.
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Closing
By having a slight look at the definition of news, the
types of journalism products and how news relates
with mass media, it is expected that the students will
be ready to join the next session: the
commercialization of media.
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