1Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Ranchi University, Morabadi, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Journalism including any news beat, be it investigative or interpretative, becomes a matter of discussion if it touches on the core issues of society. Lately, some of such news stories have attracted film and television serial producers apart from book publishers who are converting it into web series, documentary, or fictional movies serving it as on-screen entertainment. It expands the scope of mass communication more through storytelling or literary journalism.
It was basically secondary research. A qualitative method was used for data collection. Content Analysis was adapted for studying the selected films and web series works where journalists are taken in context. Findings: This paper will find out how journalism centric movies or web series have portrayed the character of the journalist playing the lead role and observe the language and scenes of these journalist characters.
Choosing these movies or web series was to understand how violence is portrayed for journalists when they begin covering a news story in the field and further investigate it. It shows how their personal image or life is affected because of the challenging profession and how they cope with it.
Narrative, Journalism, Screen, Entertainment, Society, Communication
