REPORTING

Topic of the Lecture: Reporting set-up in a newspaper and a magazine

  I)  REPORTING SET-UP IN A NEWSPAPER

Editor-in-chief/Chief Editor/Editor

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Managing Editor/ Executive Editor

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Metro Editor─                          Chief of Bureau - Senior Associate Editor- Associate Editor-Senior Assistant       

          │                                 │                     Editors- Assistant Editors-Special Correspondents

                                     Deputy Chief of Bureau

                                      │

Principal Correspondents       Special Correspondents              

          │                 

Senior Correspondents/

Senior Reporters               

          │                          

Correspondents        /

Reporters     

Note: Metro Editor is the Editor for a metropolitan city’s edition and the hierarchy starting from the “Metro Editor” is hence for a newspaper set-up in a metropolitan city.

II) REPORTING SET-UP IN A MAGAZINE

Editor-in-Chief

                   │

          Managing/Executive Editor

                   │

Senior Associate Editor

          │

Associate Editor

          │

Senior Assistant Editor

          │

Assistant Editor

          │

Special Correspondents

          │

Senior Correspondents

          │

Correspondents

While the set-ups given above are for understanding the organizational structure, it must be noted that in practicality, newspapers as well as magazines are very fluid and may follow a hierarchical set-up that may not establish the real levels of seniority.