Reflection Journalism Innovation Leads

Question: Discuss about the Reflection Journalism Innovation Leads. Answer: Introduction: The aim of this reflective journal is to reflect the progress achieved with the completion of the course. The paper is divided into three major parts. The first part talks about the role of journalism in the society of Singapore, the next part reveals the skills that I have developed throughout the time and the third part deals with a comparison of the Newswriting and Feature Writing learnt during the course. Discussion: Role of journalism in Singaporean society, its evolution, future, challenges, and importance Singapore acts as one of the key strategic media centre in the Asia Pacific region. Reading, it has been found that the Government has been found to make an aggressive push towards making Singapore as the media hub of the Pacific region (Tapsell, 2014). The media industry of Singapore follows strict regulations and guidelines. It is the Minister of the State who decides the stakeholders if the media houses (Karppinen, 2015). The Print media are largely controlled by Singapore Press Holdings. The industry faces certain challenges because of a number of government regulations that largely decides the publishing and the availability of the contents of the media to and from abroad (Dobbs, 2014). Most of the local media are directly or indirectly falls under the control of the government. Collectively about 38, 000 employees are engaged with the media industry and there is an annual growth rate of S$ 10 billion ((Dobbs, 2014). Therefore, it can be easily assumed that the future of the media industry is bright and shinning. If the development journalism is considered, it has to be said that the South east regions deal with the development journalism since its independence in the need of building an independent nation and to strengthen the political stability. Sometimes, things are glamorized using media as a tool but these approaches are made for the purpose of strengthen the national identity (Fernandez, 2015). Two skills developed over the years I have learned lots of things throughout the course and have enriched my skills by many folds. I have understood that the most important skill needed for journalism is to become a good observer and a good listener. One cannot just go with the flow and write a news report or a feature on a particular issue or a topic (Ketterer, McGuire Murray, 2014). A good journalist is the one who understands the situation and then does the investigation very thoroughly and then come down to a conclusion and informs public correctly on the particular issue (Gynnild, 2014). Of the many skills that I have learnt during my Journalism course, two of the most important skills are investigation the situation and listening to people. Ideally, I should confess that I do not consider me as a good listener. Many times I have faced issues because I have unheard many things and derived at the conclusion. Another useful skill that I have developed is about investigating a matter. I have understood that it is indeed important to understand the situation well and then deriving at a particular conclusion. Comparison of the lessons learnt between Journalism 1 (Newswriting) and Journalism 2 (Feature writing) along with the progress of the writing skill Journalism 1 was concerned with writing News. These types of news are mostly event or incident related. On the other hand, Journalism 2 taught about writing a feature, where focus is made on developing a story. If a comparison is made between the two methods, it has to be said that the writing styles varies invariably. I have understood that while Newswriting, we should always follow the inverted pyramid structure and thereby, putting the most important part of the news above and the relevancy decreases as the news gradually descends (Malaysia, 2016). While writing the News, the 5W 1H format is indeed important to make the readers aware of the gist of the news. As Newswrting deals with events and incidents, primary sources and investigative reporting holds great importance. Therefore, at the time of interviewing a person, close ended questions are more preferable because it is important to know how the incident happened rather than getting someones opinion or view point (Protess McC ombs, 2016). If the feature writing style is taken into consideration, it has to be said that there a number of unique things that has to be consider at the time of writing a feature. It has been known that features cover both hard and soft news. However, the feature stories are planned and a lot of research is conducted before writing a feature. The concept of the inverted pyramid is not so strong here but the feature has to be written in a way that it keeps the readers attracted towards the story (Xie, 2015). Moreover, narrative features with the use of personifications create more interests among the readers. If any supporting information is provided by the means of interview, it is recommended to ask open ended questions because in feature writings, there lays the importance of knowing view point of others. This way an argumentative or critical approach can also be made towards the feature story. Conclusion: The reflective journal has focused on the major areas that have been taught during the course and the skills and knowledge that I have developed by this time. 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