Sunday, June 14, 2009

Interview with journalist

Journalists are the mediator of communication between people. They find the story and broadcast to mass like an agent.

Journalist First
quotes
“They will publish the official press release before the event”
“Journalists like a magnet to news. When people want to speak out, they will have the way to find the journalist”
“Journalists try to maintain good relationship with stakeholders such polish officer to get social news”
“Most of the news about new restaurant are paid by them”
“Audiences don’t buy the advertisement from restaurant but they believe the report of restaurant in the newspaper”
“For politics news journalist, they almost always stay at government’s journalist room”
“Micro-news media is more about gathering the same interest people and sharing information”
“I will see the sharing, twitter and blogs, of specific group of people”


Journalist Second
“Media company will spy the radio to know where there is a fire or car accident”
“TV company has two deadline during a day, 12:00 and 5:00. We will follow the newspaper’s news for 12:00 deadline. We have to find the new news for the 5:00 deadline”
“There are four ways of finding news:
asking the police officer and fireman
research on internet like bbs or twitter
citizen expose
informer like friends

“Every thing is news but we only report what mass concerns”
“There are two kind of news, event and trend. We have to interpret what we see into trend”
“Local tv station focus on very local news which is very different from national news”
“We all use cell phone to communicate with coordinator who take control of every journalist”
“Blog becomes a usual way to find news”

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