​This course combines the standards of news writing and editing with recent trends in news writing in digital media. It deals with the concept of news, the values of news, what makes events news, templates and forms of writing news, methods of writing news in traditional journalism, methods of writing news in digital journalism, sources of information and news gathering, media processing and verification, and the proper use of language in writing news and rules of summarization. On the technical side, students learn to formulate news headlines, write various types of introductions, and deal with forms of news narration and quotations and citations.​