The Techniques (Bullet Points)

1. Traits required in Writers, Editors and Journos 
2. The Thrilling realm of writing 
1. What is simple writing
2. What is creativity
3. You have many hurdles ahead of you
4. How you can eliminates the hurdles 
5. The golden rules for becoming a creative writer 
6. Discipline to be observed
7. A writer is a manager of a unique kind 
3. The writing process 
1. Get vital inputs 
2. Plan
3. Organise
4. Staff
5. Direct
6. Control
7. Submit
8. Edit the first proof 
9. keep in touch with publisher for subsequent proof 
10. Go through the final proof 
11. Pray for a good CRC
12. Pray for the article or book to succeed
13. Get remuneration or royalty 
4. Writing Magazines 
1. What you can write for a magazine 
2. How to write an article for a magazine 
3. How to judge an article 
5. How to write short story 
1. Major feature of a short story
2. what you can write in short story 
3. How to write a short story 
6. How to write a long story 
7. How to write a novels 
8. How to write story for children 
1. Writing for a children of age 2-5 years 
2. Writing for a children of age 6-12 years 
3. Writing for the age group of 12- 16 years
9. How to write editorials of newspaper 
1. How to write guest column 
2. How to write an article for a news paper 
3. How to cover events in a newspaper or magazine 
10. specialist areas of journalism 
1. Pack journalism 
2. Public journalism 
1. Areas of public journalism 
3. Yellow journalism 
4. Crime reporting 
1. Types of crime 
2. Some legal terms and procedure that a journo must know
3. Contempt of court
4. Examples of crime reporting 
5. Procedures of a crime reporting 
5. Depth reporting 
1. Definition 
2. Classification of depth reporting 
1. Depth reporting in the print media 
1. Investigative journalism 
2. Feature writing 
1. Types of features 
2. How to manage a feature 
3. How to write a feature 
3. Column writing 
1. Types of column 
4. Book review 
5. Editorial Writing 
2. Depth reporting in broadcast media 
3. Depth reporting in online journalism 
6. Investigative journalism 
1. Three levels of reporting 
2. What is a dispute 
3. Types of reporters 
4. Definition 
5. Why should we nature this concept 
6. types of investigative journalism 
7. It is a risky business 
8. Quality and traits desired in an investigative journalist 
9. What an investigative journalist is not supposed to do 
10. Procedure of investigative journalism 
11. History of Investigative journalism 
7. Development journalism 
1. Constraints  on the coverage of development news 
2. Definition of development journalism 
3. Prerequisites for becoming a development reporter 
4. Electronic media and development journalism 
8. Cheque Book journalism 
11. Syndicates
12. Freelancer or stringers
1. Definition of freelancing 
2. Problem faced by freelancers 
3. How to operate as a stringer 
4. Advantages of using freelancers 
5. Disadvantages of using freelancers 
13. News agency and press organisation operating in India  
1. Press Trust of India (PTI)
2. United News of India 
3. Non-Aligned News Agencies Pool (NANA)
4. Press Council of India 
5. Research reference and training division
6. Photo division 
7. Publication division