Shut Up and Listen: Getting the Most from Your Interviews

Preparation
1. Select the right person to interview. Early in your research on a story, you might need to talk to someone who can give you general background. Later, you might seek someone with a particular experience or viewpoint to fill your last hole or two. Use all the resources you can to find and [...]

Covering Meetings

A reporter’s life sometimes seems like an endless series of meetings. But those meetings are sources of many bread-and-butter stories.

If you have never covered one, you will probably feel ill at ease the first few times. Here is some advice that will help keep you from feeling lost.

Before You Go

When your editor gives you an [...]

Writing tips

The building blocks
As a Northern Star reporter, you’ll do the same things and take on the same responsibilities of a reporter at any ‘real world” newspaper, because the Star is just that: a real newspaper, read by thousands of people every day. Your audience is mostly students, but it’s also NIU faculty and staff, alumni [...]

Developing and Cultivating Sources

 

Be available. Let people on your beat know you’re interested in hearing tips, suggestions, complaints, whatever. Make sure they have your phone number and e-mail. If it’s appropriate, give them home, cell and pager numbers, too. Make rounds frequently in person and by telephone.
Be honest. Never mislead a source. Be honest about the direction a [...]

Related Websites on Bangladesh Politics

Students can visit the following websites to get background information on Bangladesh politics:
http://www.virtualbangladesh.com/bd_politics.html
http://www.politicalresources.net/bangladesh.htm
http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/94.htm
http://www.bangladeshpolitics.org/

Bangladesh Political Crisis: 2006-2007

From wikipedia, free encyclopaedia
The 2006–2007 Bangladeshi political crisis began in October 2006 when a caretaker government — designated by the constitution to oversee the vote — assumed power without exhausting the provisions of selection of Chief of Caretaker government at the end of October. Its purpose was to steer the country through the scheduled [...]

Politics of Bangladesh

Politics of Bangladesh
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_of_Bangladesh)
Politics of Bangladesh takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Bangladesh is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. The Constitution of [...]

Course Outline: MSJ 418 – Political Journalism

Course title: Political Journalism
Code – MSJ 418
University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh (ULAB), Fall 2007Mondays: 10:00am to 11:20am (may be changed!)Wednesdays: 10:00am to 11:20am Room no: 405 Shameem Mahmud E-mail: shameemdu@yahoo.com
 COURSE DESCRIPTION:
General aim:This course assumes that students have basic knowledge of news values, and they have also skills of news gathering and writing.  Rather than [...]

Welcome

Hello,
This is our class blog for the course MSJ 418 – Political Journalism. We will use this site to share handouts, links to important sites and also to publish your works – political reports. So, it is mandatory to have a look in this blog regularly. Hope we will enjoy the next 13 weeks.
Until October [...]

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