The course aims to raise the students’ awareness as to the specifics of journalistic language and deeply rooted conventions of journalism both in Turkish and English. The students are expected to identify various segments of the news correctly, and to be able to analyze them accordingly. The topics covered by the course are inverted pyramid structure, headline grammar and vocabulary, writing effective leads using 5W1H rule, journalistic terminology, and text versus image in media. Throughout the course various written media will be analyzed in terms of extra-textual and intra-textual elements and thus the students will be expected to be able to develop a critical outlook and to acquire a deeper insight into the process and product of translation.