FOCUS ON THE NEWSROOM
REPORTED BY:ANITHA RAMACHANDRAN
The day kicked off with reading the news from the daily newspapers. Bharathy Kannan read about the Vandalur Zoo’s recent development. We then read the city map and found some interesting places in the map of Chennai, which we are asked to, bring regularly to class.
We then had a light chat of the birds we see in the city - it was interesting. Anita Srinivasan read an interesting article about the Koovagam festival which took place a few days ago for trans-genders at the Koothandavar Temple near Villupuram.
We then put off our papers and listened keenly as resource person Vincent D'Souza spoke about the newsroom. We learnt how news comes into the room from various sources. Some of the sources we learnt were from the reporters, press releases, news syndicates, news agencies, from the readers of the paper who also contribute and from blogs on the Internet.
We were told that journalists or reporters must be sensitive, ethical and understand issues and things well. He said that reporters must sense things around them and must ask questions.
We then had a light discussion of the positive and the negative sides of the articles we have been filing so far and are blogged. We discussed what all errors we make in common.
Vincent gave all of us some envelopes for us to look at and observe. Each of us got a special postal cover. What was common?
Each cover was on a landmark event of the city.
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Other sources include freelancers, and nowadays, advertisers.
Journalism today is not all that ideal. Advertorials are no longer seen as anything wrong. Sometimes, some papers don't even exclusively mention that a particular piece is an advertorial...
But there are arguments for and against this... How about each one of the team members blog about it? Give your opinions and see what everyone else has to say...
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