3. Editor-in-Chief
Editor / Managing Editor / Executive Editor
Resident Editor
Edit Page Editor
Assistant Editors
News Editor City Editor Sports Editor Business Editor Lifestyle Editor Design Editor Political Editor Photo Editor
Chief Sub-
Editor
Sr Sub-Editor
Sub-Editor
Chief Reporter
Senior Reporter
Staff Reporter
Sr Sports
Reporter
-cum –
Sub-Editor
Sports
Reporter-cum-
Sub-Editor
Sr Business
Reporter
-cum-
Sub-Editor
Business
Reporter-cum
Sub-Editor
Lifestyle
Reporter
-cum-
Sub-Editor
Bureau Chef
Sr Photographer
Special Correspondent
Photographer
Layout Editor
Illustrator
Stringer
News gathering News processing News gathering + processing Overall supervision + Direction
4. Qualities of a Reporter
• Well informed
• Keen to find out things
• Good command over language
• Should be sceptical
• Persistence
• Friendly and reliable
• Willing to work long hours
5. Qualities of a Sub-editor
• Well informed
• Strong command over language
• Good news sense
• Questioning attitude
• Alert and orderly mind
• Willing to work at unearthly hours
6. Sources of information
•1 • Organisation’s News gathering
team
• At
• Publishing centre
• State capitals/metros
• Small towns
7. Sources of information
•2
• Wires Services/News Agencies
• A. International wire services
• AP, AFP, Thomson Reuters, DPA,
Xinhua
• B. National wire services
• PTI, UNI, ANI, IANS
