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I am a self-funded retired senior journalist currently researching all I can find about Global Communication as a "knowledge gift" to PBC where I served on staff in the printshop 1966-1968. Very impressed professionally and ethically with your site and continuing work. We share many of the same values and beliefs. Keep in touch! I live and work currently in Melbourne.
Noel James Buchanan
Research for Prairie Bible College
Three Hills, Alberta, Canada
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I find all the material I need for my classes. Clear, concise and efficient. Thanks a lot!
Laura Borodnikoff
BAE Academy
Argentina
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I was a journalist back in Fiji but now studying at Delhi University. I enjoy reading the manuals and will encourage my fellow colleagues to check it out too. I can relate to the manuals since they are designed for Pac journos. Excellent and great stuff.
Mereseini Marau
Delhi University
New Delhi, India
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I am a media educator also. I found this site very useful for me. I am using this site as my resources. Regards,
Amrit Dahal
Terai Television Network
Kathmandu, Nepal
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This site is useful for us. It contains topics which are covered in our 1st semester. I want if u can give other information which can be helpful in our further curriculum/studies.
Gayatri Laha
Naxatra
Institute of Media Studies,
Bhubaneshwar,India
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Very useful for the working journalist as well as for the media students and educators.
Kishore Kumar Malviya
Newzstreet
New Delhi, India
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I'm really glad that I got all the basic information in short in this manual. Thanks for making it in such a creative way to make us understand everything about journalism.
Taruna Tomar
SNDT University
Matunga
Mumbai, India
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It's very helping and productive.
Hassan Ali Tipu
ISP
Multan, Pakistan
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Well, I studied language in the university and after graduating accepted a salesman job offer. Six months into the job and feeling the need to pursue journalism. While at campus, I took some journalism courses. Is there a possibility of downloading the 1st volume of the manual so that I hone my journalistic skills? Thanks in advance.
Oliver Odhiambo
Mombasa, Kenya
Editor's Note: Unfortunately at present there is no way to download The News Manual apart from one web page (chapter) at a time, which I will admit is not very successful.I intend looking at converting The News Manual into pdf files which can be downloaded from the site, though this may take several months .
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I must say I am very impressed and very happy to learn that there is a site where journalists can visit to learn more about what they do that is, journalism. As a student, the glossary or terms used by a journalist really help me a lot as I learn some languages used by journalists. With these terms, I am convinced that journalism is a profession with ethics and purpose. I would also like to commend theinitiators of this site to improve on what they have started; they can include some topics studied under journalism such as news writing, for students of journalism to enhance and add to their study of journalism. Thank you.
Josephine Abena Nyarkoh
Ghana Institute of Journalism
Tema, Ghana
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Weblinks are very useful for me to teach students.
Sachin D. Shirode
Visiting faculty
Mumbai, India
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These help a lot in my paper work as a Development Communication student! I'm done reading the Volume 1 of The News Manual Online, next stop is the Volume 2 and 3. Do not be fed up in giving this information to interested persons like me. :) To David Ingram, your the best! :))
Clarence de Leon,
Nueva Ecija, Philippines
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I like this site.. really helps me with my work as a journalist and news reporter. I hope that more constructive [material] is yet to come. Thankx
Jese Tuiqila Masarau
World Harvest Broadcast Network
Suva Fiji
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It would be wonderful to discover that The News Manual was still available as the region's best training manual.
Kind regards,
Bob Makin
Port Vila, Vanuatu
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Thank you very much for publishing online The News Manual. I found it, especially Volume II, very useful as I teach science reporting for development communication students here at Central Luzon State University.
Luz Abad-Jove
Central Luzon State University
Science City of Munoz
Nueva Ecija, Philippines
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It's my first time to meet you over the internet but I am glad to see you here. Greetings from Istanbul, a beautiful city from Turkey...
Sahika Temur
Daily Turkey
Istanbul, Turkey
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Nice work. I got a lot of information about crime reporting and know our laws.
Nabil Ahmed Khan
Islamic University of Bahawalpur
Mailsi, Pakistan
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I am very impressed with what you have given us in these materials because they are very helpful, and the language used is very simple and clear where it is very easy to understand.
Milembe Dashina
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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I wanted to know some information on how I could possibly obtain skills to become a journalist and I found this website to be very helpful. thankyou.
Sarita Andrews
Australia
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I cannot stop encouraging reporters and journalism students to check The News Manual, Vols 1, 2 & 3. Thank you, it suits Fiji and Pacific media. Simple, direct and right to the point, it helps us inform our public correctly.
Maikeli Seru Vesikula,
Chief Sub-Editor
Fiji Sun Limited
Suva, Fiji
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I have been using the hard copies of the news manual to teach journalism students since joining the staff at DWU. Now the books are online, it is even more convenient for staff & students. I have known David Ingram and late Peter Henshall who used to write our Media Watch columns at The Times in the 80s. The online News Manual will be a lasting legacy of their valuable contribution to journalism.
Em nau.
Patrick Matbob
Communication Arts Department
Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea
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I have visited your website and found the News Manual very very interesting and relevant to my University as a textbook as well. May I get permission to use it as an official reference book to the University? And, I can I get some hard copies (at least two) for the library purpose? I would be glad to hear from you.
Bhanu Bhakta Acharya,
Dept of Journalism, Purbanchal University
Nepal
Editor's Note: Unfortunately, the hard copy 'The News Manual' has been out of print for several years. While we have no immediate plans to re-publish in paper form, it is a possibility for the future, if funding became available. The response to The News Manual online suggests the web version may satisfy many people's needs, though we would like to hear from people whether there is a demand for a hard copy or CD ROM edition.
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The News Manual is simply out of this world. In my more than fifty years of acting as a journalist, I do think that you have the best site on the subject.
José Luis Belmar
Journalist
TV Azteca, Radio Mil
Mexico
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What a great resources for a student writer!!! I have just shared it on facebook!
Penni Fisher
Journalism/media student
Melbourne, Victoria
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I just wanted to congratulate you guys on providing such a fantastic resource for (budding) journalists! I am currently studying the media law module of a part-time bachelor of communications and have found your site invaluable. Keep up the good work!
Peta Watson
Melbourne
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I find this site very useful and really resourceful.
Shino Varghese
Journalism/media educator
India
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This job entails learning on a daily basis. You guys are doing a good job brushing us up. Thanks.
Rotimi Kweku Tagoe
Mainsource Media Incorporated
Nigeria
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Even though i have not yet gone through all the chapters in the manual, i find it very interesting and useful. I hope i will learn a lot from the manual. Thank you very much.
Khut Sokhoeun
Women's Media Center of Cambodia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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This News Manual covered everything which I need to know.
Thanks for all people who worked to make this happen.
Please may I know how I can get this News Manual as a hard copy.
Joseph Chikaka
Journalism/media student
Dodoma, Tanzania
I would like to have details on how I can purchase the three book series of The News Manual which I strongly believe will be of great benefit to me.
Samuel Sukhnandan
Guyana Times Inc.
Georgetown, Guyana
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You people have done a great job in getting the journalists aware of precious and concise theoretical aspects of journalism that are more than practical experience.
Jitendra Kumar Shrivastav
jewellery market newspaper
Delhi, India.
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I manage the online component of the BA in Communication Arts and Technology degree [at UTECH]. I source sites which provide excellent reading and suggest that the staff follow up. I find the site to be an EXCELLENT one and have it rated as “hot” and “must visit”. Please keep it up!
Michelle McKoy
University of Technology
Kingston, Jamaica
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Thank you for your site, it greatly helps me in educating budding journalists in our place. I myself am working as a journalist but I need sites like this to further enhance my skills and impart important matters to my students. Thank you.
Pretty Abegail C. Pacilan
Zamboanga del Norte United Correspondents
Dipolog City, Philippines
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Having gleaned through some of the topics, I find them refreshing and would certainly recommend them to my colleagues.
This is a site I shall be visiting regularly for professional inspiration.
Do keep up the good work.
Funmi Wakama
Nigerian Television Authority, NTA
Abuja, Nigeria.
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I find the resources here very useful and timely reminders of sometimes forgotten ethics of the profession.
Lekan Otufodunrin
The Nation
Lagos, Nigeria
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Got extremely useful material.
Subhash Dhuliya
Indira Gandhi National Open University,
New Delhi, India
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Such an incredible website I ever read. There should be some articles about headlines (news, column, editorial, article), that [show] how to make headlines, what should be criteria, kinds of headlines, how to get excellence in headlines etc.
Nasir Hafeez
Daily Nawa-e-Waqt
Lahore, Pakistan
Editor's Note: Unhappily, Peter Henshall was the great headline expert and his death meant the revised The News Manual Online is missing material in this area. In 1986 he wrote an excellent, detailed 230-page guide for the University of Papua New Guinea Print Media Production program but I don't know of any copies left in circulation. Harold Evans wrote perhaps the definitive book on News Headlines in his five-volume "Editing and Design" series (William Heinemann, 1974), but this has been out of print for many years. Does anyone know of any good modern guides, either Online or in-print?
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I am very pleased to let you know that my senior editors have been encouraged to read "The News Manual" regularly. Our young reporters said the manual is very helpful to enrich their skills. One thing they keep asking is that they would like to get a copy each of the manual so that they can read it at home or anywhere they go after their duties.
Tibwere Bobo
Broadcasting & Publications Authority
Kiribati
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I first came across the News Manual when I was visiting UPNG and later used it when I was teaching journalism at USP in Fiji. I was delighted to find it on line last year and have used it here at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. Of course, I have had to adapt it somewhat - the references to beer and pigs had to go and the cyclone in the first volume wiped out Sohar in Oman. However, as a manual for people for whom English is not their first language it is hard to beat and I will be using it again this semester. Thank you so much for making it available again.
Philip Cass
College of Communications and Media Science
Zayed University
Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates
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it's a very good attempt to learn journalism in easy ways.
i support u.
Pratik Awasthi
Working journalist
Daily Prabhat Khabar, India
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I learnt a lot from The News Manual Online.
Shanthanu Bhattachaarya
Working journalist
Calcutta, India
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Apesar de se referir a uma realidade anglófila, trata-se de um recurso muito interessante, quer para profissionais e jovens jornalistas como para cidadãos que criam conteúdos. (Though referring to a more anglophile reality, it’s a most interesting resource, whether for pros and young journalists as for content generating citizens.)
Alex Gamela,
O Lago/The Lake
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Looks like there’s some great information included. It will definitely be a useful resource as we do our trainings/events around the region with ABU member broadcasters. I will also forward it to colleagues who may find it useful. Thanks for sharing it.
Francyne Harrigan
Development Projects Department
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
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A colleague has just forwarded me the link to The News Manual. It's a wonderful online resource for young journalists. As a broadcasting union, we represent TV and radio stations across Asia and the Pacific, and I'm going to send the link to all our news contacts. Many thanks for making the manual freely available.
Alan Williams
Managing Editor, Asiavision
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union
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I have been using the books since I started teaching at USP, and the updated, online versions are very welcome. What I find appealing about The News Manual series is that they were written with the Pacific island journalism student in mind; in simple, clear journalistic style English. This makes them ideal for second-language users. I find this lacking in some of the more recent books. The News Manual is unique in that it was created specifically for Pacific Island j-students. The authors have worked with island students and understand the language challenges that they face. This is why the books are so good.
Shailendra Singh
Senior Lecturer/Divisional Head, Journalism
University of the South Pacific
Suva, Fiji
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This is brilliant!
I well recall Peter Henshall and David Ingram setting up this excellent work at the start of the 'Nineties. As an extremely useful tool to get well into our trade it is unrivalled, and I regret losing my copies of the 3 volumes at one stage, probably on my way into administration, or right out of the media, or back into becoming The Vanuatu Indy's editor - somewhere along the way.
My colleague here from nearly two decades ago in Radio Vanuatu still has her three volumes so close to her desk she can just reach out and grab them. And they look very used. Is the print version still available?
May I congratulate all concerned on an excellent idea: the return of The News Manual is welcomed by The Indy and all who sail within her.
Bob Makin
Editor
The Vanuatu Independent
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Congratulations on the initiative and i note with great joy the 3 manuals have been updated after a review. So many years after leaving J-School at UPNG, i still find the manuals useful as a practicing journalist and an educator. At least now there will be no more photo copying as students can go to this excellent website and get as much information as they want to. I'm spreading the word and again, i salute the initiative.
Dina namona
Titi Gabi
PNGFM
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The News Manual Volumes 1 - 3 was the 1st set of publications I read when I joined UNESCO in 2005 and I'm utterly delighted to see the entire publication online and free!
Abel Caine
Adviser for Communication & Information
UNESCO Office for the Pacific States
Apia, Samoa
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Congratulations! This is a very useful resource! I have put this item out on our Pacific Media watch elist and database: www.pacmediawatch.aut.ac.nz
Cheers
David
Associate Professor David Robie
Director Pacific Media Centre
Auckland
Aotearoa/New Zealand
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The Manuals are excellent, professionally written, easy to understand and best suited most of our working newsroom environment. I have known the late Mr Peter Henshall well, he once facilitated a workshop for us in Vanuatu on Feature Writing, and I still to this very day treasure his leadership skills and qualities. Thank you UNESCO for making it possible to actually have the three editions of 'The News Manual', now online. We have tried in the past to request for hard copies made available to our Journalism Students at the Vanuatu Institute of Technology (VIT) in Port Vila, Vanuatu but understand the books were out of stock. Now with the launch of The News Manual website, it certainly will be a big advantage for our students as it will definitely bring in a wealth of useful training materials, resources and information especially on how to capture the best newsroom style of writing techniques for our students at the VIT.
Shirley Joy
Brussels
Belgium
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