COMPUTERIZED NEWS EDITING SYSTEM

COMPUTERIZED NEWS EDITING SYSTEM

ABSTRACT

Those people out there, who are familiar with journalism will better appreciate how difficult it is to produce or develop well edited news. This project Design and implementation of a computerized News Editing system, distinguish itself as it provides solution to the teaming problems facing today’ journalist as for as news editing is concerned.  The concept of this project is divided into five (5) chapters which gave an ample opportunity for the study of the existing system in order to be able to design a new system that is far better than the former system. In this work, I looked at the traditional news editing system with a view to implementing of a new editing system which will ease the works of news editor in the field of journalism.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

The advent of computer Technology has completely changed the way things are done globally. These effects of computer Technology can be in all field of study, consequently giving birth to the automation of process of activities in this study will seek to usher in automation of the news editing system. It is believed that the traditional news editing system is grossly inefficient and   ineffective. These have been the reason behind the epileptic news presented on daily basis by journalists to their teaming audience globally.  

This study is carried out with the view of designing a new system that will take good care of the ineffectiveness that characterized the existing system and automation of the entire process of news editing by doing this we don’t have to be there to gather news, it can be done through the help of calls, internet, YouTube which makes it easy for the masses, instead of going to buy newspaper from the vendor, they can read the news through their internet or phones. 

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, editor come from the Latin phrase “editus’’ which means “to put forward’’.  Therefore, News Editing is the process of preparing language, News, for presentation to the audience, through correction, condensation, organization and other modification.  News editing ensures that News is of good quality. In large media houses, experienced writers are dedicated to the News editing function.

News items can be gathered manually through so many sources or methods which include official records, Archives, journals, documentaries, tipsters or those you can also call experts, eyewitnesses, publication or broadcasts, officials in government or business, organizations or corporations, information gathered from other media like newspaper and people involved with or affected by a new event or issue.

The old and traditional way of editing news has some problems that make them inefficient and ineffective compared to the new system of editing news and these includes:

1. The documentaries gathered might have unlimited information that the news editor might find very hard to work with.

2. The tipsters or experts in news editing are very hard to find.

3. Other media houses like newspapers and eyewitnesses may be unreliable because they can present non-authentic information.

4. It was very stressfully and time consuming to edit news manually in the sense that sometimes, you have to be at the crime scene to gather information manually. But this new system deals with computability, complexity and correctness. And all these will be discussed as we go further into this work.

1.2     STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

The problems that characterized the existing system are actually responsible for the fall in the quality of news production and presentation. The problems with the existing system include:

i)  Reviewing of reports submitted by reporters on the field

ii) Identification of errors in the reports, this includes: grammatical errors, spelling errors, punctuation errors etc.

iii) Condensation of reports into meaningful and concise piece

iv) Organization of the reports in an orderly manner for presentation to the audience.

v) And other modifications.

TOPIC: COMPUTERIZED NEWS EDITING SYSTEM

Chapters: 1 - 5
Delivery: Email

Number of Pages: 67

Price: 3000 NGN

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