STRUCTURE OF NEWS DEPARTMENT: Quality of reporter
One of the traditional mass communications is the presence of a large number of gatekeepers. This fact is seen in gathering and reporting of news for conventional print and broadcast media. Reporting is a team effort and quite a few members of the team serve as gatekeepers. Online reporting in contrast may have only one or a few gatekeepers. There are two main sources of news; staff reports and the wire services . Other less important sources include feature syndicates as well as handouts and releases from various public and private sources. The City Editor is the captain of the news reporting team. He or she assigns stories to the reporters and supervises their work. There are two types of reporters: Beat Reporters: Cover some topics on regular basis, such as crime beat or health beat. · General assignment reporters: Cover what ever assignment is given to them or come up. A typical