Name of Student - Anoushka Chowdhary

Enrolment No.- LA20MCE005

BENNETT UNIVERSITY, GREATER NOIDA

NEWS WRITING CLASS TEST II
Date: 02-02-2021
COURSE NAME: NEWS WRITING MAX. DURATION: 2 HOURS
COURSE CREDIT: FOUR MAX. MARKS: 20

Instructions:
1. Please email the answer sheet to your respective Faculty, groupwise.
2. Please work on this document itself.
3. Don’t forget to write your name and roll number in the space given on the
top.
4. All questions are compulsory.

Question 1: (Marks 7)
Your editor asked you to file a report on increase in vegetable prices in
your city. You went to a local vegetable mandi and interacted with traders and
customers to assess the situation. Given below are some of your observations.
Based on it, write a 150-word news report in two paragraphs. Follow inverted
pyramid style and include one quote (either trader or customer). You can use
imaginary name for the attribution.
 Rates of almost all the vegetables are on the rise across India.
 In January, the retail prices witnessed increase of up to 200% over the
previous month.
 The skyrocketing prices are proving very costly for a common man.
 The weekly budget of a household of five has increased nearly by Rs 400
on vegetables.
 According to the traders, farmers protest, unseasonal rains, restricted
movement of transport, expensive diesel, unavailability of local produce
are some of the factors that led to increase in prices.
 Rates of the vegetable are unlikely to cool down soon.
 Price rise in the wake of job losses due to pandemic has forced many
families to curtail their vegetable consumption.

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 Ans. New Delhi, Feb 2: The rates of vegetables are on a high rise across
India. The farmers protest, unseasonal rains, restricted transportation,
expensive diesel and unavailability of local produce have led to the increase
in prices of the veggies.

The retailed prices witnessed increase of up to 200% in December. These

skyrocketing prices have become very costly for a common man. The weekly
budgets of houses have been jeopardised with increase of nearly Rs 400 on
the staples. Ram Prasad, a wholesale trader from Pimplapur Mandi tells how
the rains have increased the problem. He said, “Due to the abrupt rains the
early crops were destroyed, now it will take a longer time for new crops to
grow, leading to increased rates in the market.” The rates are unlikely to cool
down soon. This price rise in the wake of job losses during pandemic has
forced families to curtail their vegetable consumption.

Question 2 (7 Marks)
An interdisciplinary team of four Ph.D research Scholars from Bennett
University: Mr. Sumit Sharma (Biotechnology), Mr. Tushar Bansal (Civil
Engineering), Mr. Abhinav Nair (Biotechnology) and Mr. Manish Chauhan
(Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) had filed a design patent in June 2020
for developing "An advance protective gear against COVID-19 and related
disease transmission”. Recently, they were awarded the design patent and it is
the first patent of any kind awarded to the University. 
You have been given task of interviewing them for the TOB. Suggest five
questions that you would ask these scholars on their achievement.

Q1- How did you come to the idea of developing this gear?
Q2- What are the advantages of using this, which a normal mask won’t have?
Q3- You all are from different field, what were the difficulties you faced during
the making of this gear, how did you communicate, coordinate and execute?
Q4- How much time and money did it take for you to come up with the whole
idea and then the further process and how much would the gear cost now?
Q5- How did getting of the patent encourage you and what are your further
plans after this?

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Question 3 (Marks 2 each)
Write short notes on the following topics:
1. Impartiality and objectivity – Impartiality is presenting unbiased news.
Impartial news reporting is the balanced, fair and accurate reporting where
all sides of a controversy are presented. It is the foundation of any news
story.
Objectivity is when you don’t inject your own feelings or opinions while
writing any report. It requires the journalist to not be on either side of any
argument.

2. News elements –
Timelines – Current news has more interests of the audience than a news which
is a week old. Past events become stale when there is fresh news.
Proximity- If an event is happening nearby, it’ll have more of audience attention
rather than the event happening somewhere else.
Impact- The more people involved during any event, the more newsworthy it is.
Prominence- A famous person, place or event has stronger news worth than
something the audience isn’t familiar with.
Conflict- Any conflict, Ideas, legal issues, policies from boardrooms to
warzones, even a neighbourhood squabble can make news.
Unusual- Anything that’s offbeat or which doesn’t happen every day makes
good news.

Question 4 (Marks 1 each)

1. Name two newspapers started by Mahatma Gandhi.
Ans. Young India, Harijan.
2. Who is considered as the father of modern Indian language journalism?
Ans. Ramananda Chatterjee.

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