Abstract:
Journalists picked news stories from the society. Then these news stories are not totally
new for the readers. News exert from the readers own experiences, from the reality. But
journalists analysis it and present it in totally new way. Journalist selects a story from
common experience and analysis it with a new dimension. In that way he can create
completely new news for his readers.
News is mostly defined by its qualities. The qualities are timeliness, proximity, prominence,
consequence, rarity and human interest. Sometimes we can categorize news as hard news
and soft news.
According to this explanation crime reporting is related to timeliness, proximity and human
interest. And we can identify it as a category of hard news. Newspapers report crimes just
after it happened; not after few days or few weeks.
When some one writes a good news story he/she follows an action plan. But when a
journalist reports a crime incidence, he/she can not follow all theoretical structures. Crime
is an unexpected instant incidence. Nobody cannot control its nature. Journalist should
adjust to report crime incident with its own nature and own characteristics. With any of
these difficulties, when journalist report crime news, that news should follow the basic
concepts of reporting.
According to these 5 crime stories this study, we can have an idea of news reporting in
Indian news papers. If there is an unknown personal crime, news media will cover it in
a balance and fair manner. But if it is connected with powerful social classes or political
society, then the news media start to work with their institutional agendas. They look at the
incident through the frame of their owners political agenda.
