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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Teror, Past and Present
Jumat (17/7/2009); Hari pendek… kata orang-orang. Pendeknya di mana? Sama saja dengan hari-hari lainnya, panjangnya 24 jam. Namun, ’hari pendek’ pekan ini menjadi sangat istimewa. Bukan karena pasaran Jawa-nya Legi, tapi hari ini menjadi tonggak aksi teror masih saja terjadi. Dulu, teror dilakukan penguasa dengan cara menekan aktivis menggelar aktivitas yang dinilai merongrong kekuasaannya (sekarang pun masih terjadi dengan cara yang lebih halus), diskusi yang membicarakan persoalan sensitif (misalnya mendiskusikan pemikiran Carl Marx, Pramoedya Ananta Toer dan gerakan kiri lainnya) karena dianggap tidak sesuai dengan dasar negara. Teror negara dilakukan dengan berbagai macam bentuk dan rupa, halus sampai kasar, penculikan sampai pembunuhan. Teror yang terjadi hari ini (kabarnya) bukan dilakukan oleh negara. Namun teror terhadap negara. Peledakan hotel JW Marriot dan Ritz Carlton. Teror kasar saya kira. Memakan korban jiwa, puluhan luka berat, ribuan warga terguncang. Teror ini pun menjadi santapan empuk para politisi (yang baru saja sibuk dengan pesta pilpres). Teror kali ini dikaitkan dengan politik. Nah, apa bedanya teror yang dilakukan negara dan teror yang dilakukan orang (atau organisasi) dengan meledakkan hotel? Teror kali ini teror politik, atau teror akan ketidakpuasan terhadap pihak lain? Itu yang belum terungkap. (iwa) Ps: duka cita mendalam bagi korban bom JW Marriot-Ritz Carlton. Read more...
Monday, June 9, 2008
Ujian Akhir Semester (DasJur) June, 2008
Temans, berikut adalah soal dan tugas yang harus Anda kerjakan untuk memenuhi kewajiban Ujian Akhir Semester (UAS) mata kuliah DasJur (Dasar2 Jurnalisme) di Jurusan Ilmu Komunikasi Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta. Sifat ujian: TERBUKA Pengampu : Ikhwanudin SSos Catatan : Soal dijawab dan dikirimkan (1) ke ikhwanudin@gmail.com paling lambat Senin 16 Juni 2008 pukul 17.00 (2) dikumpulkan di pengajaran pada hari dan jam sesuai jadwal ujian mata kuliah ini bisa dalam bentuk ''prin out'' atau Anda copy ke CD (sekaligus tanda tangan sebagai bukti absensi UAS Anda) Soal 1: Jelaskan; Apa yang Anda ketahui tentang jurnalisme itu! Soal 2: Menurut Anda, apakah sembilan elemen jurnalisme itu? Apakah ke-9 elemen tersebut sudah terpenuhi dalam dunia jurnalistik tanah air? Soal 3: Terangkan dan beri penjelasan; kerja seorang jurnalis harus memenuhi beberapa kriteria, apa saja itu? Soal 4: Berikan contoh (Buatan Anda sendiri; bukan njiplak koran) satu berita straight news, topiknya bebas terserah Anda. Soalnya empat saja, kerjakan dengan TELITI, CERDAS dan ARGUMENTATIF. Jawaban diharapkan tidak hanya sekadar COPY-PASTE saja, keandalan Anda memberikan argumen menjadi unsur penilaian tertinggi. selamat mengerjakan :) iwa ikhwanudin@gmail.com 0816681041 YM: iwanudin Read more...
Monday, May 12, 2008
What is Journalism? (another description)
Simply put, journalism is the collecting, writing, editing, and presenting of news or feature articles for one of the media: newspapers, magazines, broadcast, or online. Forms of Journalism: 1) News • Breaking news: Telling about an event as it happens. • Feature stories: A detailed look at something interesting that's not breaking news. • Enterprise or Investigative stories: Stories that uncover information that few people knew about. 2) Opinion • Editorials: Unsigned articles that express a publication's opinion. • Columns: Signed articles that express the writer's reporting and his conclusions. • Reviews: Such as concert, restaurant or movie reviews. 3) Online journalism, can come in all of the forms listed above, as well as: • Blogs: Online diaries kept by individuals or small groups. • Discussion boards: Online question and answer pages where anyone can participate. • Wikis: Articles that any reader can add to or change. Writing your Story: In order to prepare to write a story, a journalist needs to gather the facts in one of the following three ways: 1) Interviews: Talking with people who know something about the story/topic you are reporting on. 2) Observation: Watching and listening where news is taking place. 3) Documents: Reading stories, reports, public records and other printed material. The 5 W's and 1 H: Whenever you are interviewing someone, observing something happening or reading about something, you will want to write down the answers to the "Five W's and 1 H.” Journalists organize their stories around these basic questions: Who? What? Where? When? Why? How? (Note that all of these questions elicit longer responses than just “yes” or “no” answers.) These basic news questions provide the skeleton for news stories. 1) Who? • Who is involved? • Who does/did the situation affect? • Who said so? 2) What? • What is happening? • What did happen? • What are the consequences? • What is different about this? • What are the choices? 3) When? • When did or will this happen? • When was this discovered? 4) Where? • Where did or will this happen? 5) Why? • Why did this happen or why will it happen? 6) How? • How did it or will it happen? • How much does it cost? • How many people does this affect? Read more...
Environmental Journalism
Although environmental journalism focuses on environmental reporting and issues, it has a number of principles and values which it shares with advocacy journalism. Environmental journalism can be defined as using journalism and the media to advocate for the health and safety of the planet. Environmental journalism is undertaken in order to achieve change within the environmental sector, but it also plays a number of other roles which advocacy journalists can use as a guide to their own practice. These include: • Agenda-setting; being able to place issues affecting communities or audiences on the agenda of those who are able to influence change. • Playing the watchdog. By monitoring, for example, government policy and programmes, environmental (and advocacy) journalists are able to act as a watchdog on behalf of the public’s interest over those who influence their daily lives. • Celebrating success and achievement within communities. Rather than simply focusing on the negative aspects of a story (as is typical within the mainstream media), environmental journalism, through the principles of good journalism, reports on those who triumph over a problem or find a solution to an issue. In the same way, because advocacy journalism is a sustained focus on an issue over a period of time, advocacy journalists are able to profile the individual or community’s achievements within the context of the struggle for change. Read more...
Civic Journalism
Civic journalism believes that the media have an obligation to society which goes beyond simply reporting the news. While much civic journalism takes place in traditional newsrooms, it is a type of journalism which aims at listening to community and audience members and their views on their problems, thereby trying to highlight solutions that community members may have to problems. The focus is on problem solving and covering issues within a community in such a manner that solutions (usually initiated through public debate) are achieved. Read more...
Public journalism
Public journalism focuses on an issue long enough for there to be public attention drawn to it, leading to public debate and hopefully some kind of solution or positive change. Public journalism has a number of elements, all of which apply to advocacy journalism. These include: • Undertaking public journalism with the desire of rebuilding a community’s sense of itself. ’Newspaper readership is unlikely to turn upward as long as the sense of community continues downward…their fate is linked.’ This is a strong motivation for undertaking advocacy journalism. If your community or audience feel that you are showing an interest in the issues which affect them and are working towards rebuilding community structures, they will not only begin to have a positive vision of themselves, but will also look to the newspaper, publication or broadcast (thus increasing readership or viewership) in order to keep informed of the changes taking place. • Providing sustained focus on an issue, rather than the traditional method of journalism which covers an event and then moves onto the next one. ’Instead of flitting from event to event, a news medium should stay with a problem or issue – even at the risk of redundancy – until it has focused community attention on all its aspects and citizens can deliberate rationally about it.’ • Undertaking a type of journalism which goes against the event-focused traditions of the mainstream press, devoting instead time and effort into explaining the systems and influences affecting the community’s lives. • Avoiding the extremes usually found so attractive by the mainstream media and rather focusing more attention on the middle ground of issues and problems influencing a community or audience. • When covering political campaigns or events, public and advocacy journalism aims to provide an insight into the effect that political strategies may have on communities, rather than seeing them in terms of their value for the politicians. Advocacy and public journalists should not treat an election or political campaign as ‘a sporting event’ where points are allotted to the politician with the best moves, but rather evaluate each move in relation to its effect on the community or audience. • Journalists undertaking public journalism have in some cases expressed their own views while focusing on an issue. The key is to not only provide your own view, but to cover the issue in such a way that helps community members to understand the views of all those involved. Advocacy and public journalism is about providing the bigger picture. Read more...
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