NEWS SOURCES AND

DEVELOPING OF STORY IDEAS

By- SamiUllah Salimee

System ID- 2019008551
MJMC 1st sem
 What is news source ?
 Anything that provides news information for a period of time
is said to be a news source. News sources can be a moving
person or still documents. Such as people who have
witnessed the crime would come to the news source or
documents found at the suicide crime spot would be
considered as a news source. There are several news sources
such as official documents, governmental officials, witnesses
of the crime scene, the victim itself etc. News sources are
required for the both, the journalists and for the audiences.
Here we are going to discuss the news sources for both.
 How to develop story ideas ?
 Put your idea in writing. 
 Propose specific ideas. 
 Propose relevant ideas.
 Explain context.
 Consider national comparisons.
 Consider local impact. 
 Consider previous coverage. 
 Tell what you know.
 Consider usefulness. 
 Consider photos and graphics. 
 Consider computer analysis.
 Consider other beats. 
 Keep the ideas coming.
 What is crime beat ?
 Crime reporting teaches some of the essential techniques of
journalism. You learn how to dig for a story, how to follow
leads, how to interview people to extract information and
how to write crisp, clear, interesting stories under pressure of
a deadline.

 In small newspapers, radio and television stations, general

reporters cover crime stories, while in bigger organizations
there may be a specialist crime reporter or team of reporters
who cover nothing else but crime.
 16-year-old boy ties up teen cousin to bed,
rapes her

Gurgaon: A 16-year-old boy tied up his cousin to bed and

allegedly raped her in Gurgaon's Sector 51 area, police said on
Saturday.

The incident happened on Thursday, but was reported to the

police on Friday after the 15-year-old girl fainted in school and
narrated it to her teacher.

The girl's mother has filed a complaint at the Woman's Police

Station against the son of her sister-in-law, a Gurgaon police
official said.
The woman had sent her daughter to her sister-in-
law's home to help her with daily chores as she was
not keeping well.
When the sister-in-law went to doctor leaving behind
her son and niece, the boy groped his sister, tied her
hand and legs to the bed and raped her, the official
said.
The boy has been arrested and a case has been filed,
he said, adding that further investigations are
underway.

Source: Internet.
That’s all folks.