Classroom Report / Day Four

By Krithika Malini S

The class started at around 9:00 am. First we started of with the routine activity of selecting news from the day’s newspaper. After each person completes there would be a small group discussion on it. After the reading session Mr. Vincent D Souza explained to us about how the news organization works. Firstly the chief reporter, his assistant and the correspondent is in charge of all the field work. He also mentioned that all news could not be covered or published in the newspaper, only major robberies and accidents were to be published. The very important quality of a reporter is to be eager about collecting news and publishing it. Every reporter has certain area of responsibility which is called “BEATS”.
Mr.Vincent also spoke to us about the difference between a correspondent and a reporter. The major difference was that because of experience the correspondent is engaged in writing special stories while the reporter is deals with field work. He concluded by saying that to be a journalist it needs a lot of hard work and energy. After this we had a small talk about field work for the day and ended the day’s class.