The course helps students develop/enhance the skills of editing news as necessary and translating them from English to Bangla and vise-versa. The editing skills the course focuses on include copy re-writing, proofreading, news treatment, understanding visuals, and page make-up (print) and page layout/design (online). The course also discusses the theoretical aspects of news editing and translation. It also introduces the students with the ideal profile and functions/responsibilities of a subeditor/copyeditor and newsroom operations, including the gatekeeping role media.