Paper Chase Story
By TrycjaSeptember 9, 2007
I do not want to spend too much time in my office; therefore I would visit the government offices and interview some politicians. Further, I would like to visit people from the government. This way I could analyse the politician’s body language during the interview; a politician could act nervously during the interview. I could include that information somewhat in my story. Finally, I do not mind to work under deadline pressure.
Corruption Story
By TrycjaSeptember 9, 2007
However, the organised crime story sounds very interesting I prefer to write on the corruption story as I would not like to put my life at risk.
I am an Ego
By TrycjaSeptember 9, 2007
No, I would not share my ideas or best questions with other journalists at a media conference. I prefer to interview the subject personally. This way I can ensure that it will be my story. Further, I can avoid that other journalists, like radio journalists, steal my ideas and broadcast them right away.
The Government
By TrycjaSeptember 9, 2007
The government owns the information. It can control the media. The government provides journalists with information under the Freedom of Information Acts. However, if the information can be used negatively against the government, the government is not free to provide journalists with information; journalists could use the information to criticise the government.
Newsworthy
By TrycjaSeptember 9, 2007
I would visit the conference that has more impact and public interest. Furthermore, the conference story has to be equivalent, relevant and interesting to the society; and create a hook.
If both conferences provide the same interest or quality of information, I would visit the conference which interests me most.
Journalistic Instinct and Work
By Trycja September 9, 2007To be a journalist means hard work as a journalist needs something to write about. A good journalist makes his or her own decision and creates his or her own angles of a story. So if you are a journalist, you need to find a story and to work at it. It is important that a journalist knows how to get information. A journalist needs to know how to access databases, to use a library, court records and so on. That includes research, investigation, developing questions for an interview, usage of technology such as cameras and recorders. To make it short, a journalist should be study the topic he or she reports on. Further, a journalist should treat his or her contacts well and to respect their confidence.
Additionally, a journalist must be communicative as it is his or her job to interview people. That includes leaving the office to interview people face-to-face. It is important that a journalist should not accept every answer he or she gets, he or she needs to question answers to get more information and to criticise the information. Another aspect is that a journalist should ensure fair and balanced coverage of different point of view.
In short, intuition plays an important role for getting a good story as there are too many journalists in the world who compete with one. However, intuition does not exclude hard work. A journalist needs the ability to get and to filter information; and to know what information is different from other. His or her job is not only to communicate and to reveal new issues.
Reporting on Crime with Pictures
By TrycjaSeptember 1, 2007
I think it is a good reason to use pictures in a story because pictures call attention. Readers are attracted to pictures because they display a scene or a person clearly, thus reader can get a simple idea what the story is about. However, if a terrible crime such as a double murder happens, a journalist should be careful how he or she publishes the picture. Otherwise, he or she might harm bereaved people.
I do not mind if a picture of a murder is depicted, yet it should not be displayed in colour if the scene involves too much blood or other brutal scenes like in a splatter movie. However, more important is that all involved people like family members or friends should be informed about the crime before the story appears in the newspaper. I would not be happy to learn from the newspaper that a crime has happened to my friend or family member.
There are also people who disagree to publish pictures of crime scenes like murder, especially, those who are related to the victim. I understand that is difficult to deal with a situation like that, yet if everybody would think like that, a journalist could stop taking pictures. There is always someone who is related to someone, like family members, friends, people from work and neighbours.
All in all, crime or murder is a serious issue which should be treated with respect, so if a journalist reports on issues like that he or she should be careful with pictures. Further, he or she should only report the facts and avoid the usage of adjectives to dramatise the story. A journalist’s job is to report what has happened and not to write a thriller.
