Good M orning! M CS1250 Introduction to Journalism October 2016, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Good M orning!

M CS1250 Introduction to Journalism

October 2016, Ulrich Werner, Adj. Prof. (IIS-RU)

What’s on the M enue for this Week?

1. Introduction to International Journalism 2. Journalists’ Safety and Press Rights Defenders 3. The Life of International Correspondents 4. Covering the World News from Home

The Role of International Correspondents

Video, about 13 minutes

“It’s not the work that makes us tired at the end of the day. It’s the way we communicate with each other.”

Navbahor Imamova, Turkmenistan VoA Washington DC

Covering the World News from Home.

Covering the World News from Home

• In the reality of our times, events that happen a

continent away may have direct and indirect effect in

• ur backyards – and in the backyards of our local

audiences

• It may be an earthquake, a political revolution, a

disease outbreak, a refugee crisis, a plain crash, an election, they are among many other events that have wide applications.

Covering the World News from Home

• Three quick examples:

– M illions of refugees from Syria

(Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey as direct neighbours; Europe, USA, Canada as destinations for many)

– The 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean killed 230,000

people in 14 countries

– The 2010 volcanic eruption on Iceland caused

all major European airports to close; about 107,000 flights were cancelled and millions of passengers were left stranded

• Each of these examples is likely to have

affected people in your local community

Covering the World News from Home

• How can you as a journalist take advantage of such

events to make foreign news relevant to your own reader, listeners, and viewers?

• How to find and how to tell stories that show the

impact of international events on local audiences?

• How can you identify and reach the news sources

you need for your reporting?

Covering the World News from Home

Five steps to your news report: 1. Find your news report idea 2. Identify news sources you need 3. Contact sources 4. Conduct interviews 5. M ake the local connection to the international event through your news report

Covering the World News from Home

• What is the impact on local drivers if oil prices in

M iddle East go up or down?

• What’s the impact of a foreign disease outbreak like

Ebola or Zika

• Some of these opportunities may come from

disasters or diseases, but others can be what audiences would consider ‘positive news’

Covering the World News from Home

• Example: When local athletes are going to compete
• n international events (Olympic Games,

Paralympics, SEA Games, etc.), they are ideal

• bjects for you to profile in print, online, on

television, or on radio

• International exchange students attending a local

school or university are good subject for a profile

• When QEII celebrated her 60th jubilee on the

throne, Brits all over the world gathered for celebrations – which are newsworthy

Covering the World News from Home

• Decide who can be knowledgeable news sources for

your report

• In the case of the sports athletes, that includes the

athletes themselves, other members of their team, and their coaches, of course

• News sources also may include relatives and friends

who live in your local area

• If you’re going to profiles exchange students, logical

sources are the students themselves, their teachers, and their classmates, but they also include local host families students may be living with

Covering the World News from Home

• In other cases that happened far away, it may be

useful to turn to Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to croud source

• That helps you find sources you otherwise wouldn’t

know about

• Decide the fastest and most efficient way to contact

these sources: First contact by phone, email, text, or SM S to set up the interviews

• Y
• u often find Skye and email addresses by online

search or asking other news sources

Covering the World News from Home

1. First choice are always face-to-face interviews, they provide you with the chance to photos and documents 2. Skype interviews are second choice 3. Email interviews have very limited value other than getting a few facts or verifying basic information 4. If your sources are in another country, remember time zone differences!

Covering the World News from Home

• Do the interviews. Conduct the other background

research for your news report

• Look for examples and anecdotes and put a human

face on the news whether it’s an upbeat situation or a tragedy

• Y
• u want your audience to feel a relationship or a

connection

Covering the World News from Home

• Remember that the international event is the reason
• r the hook, you are doing that news report now
• Don’t duplicate what the international media already

have reported

• Do it in a distinctive ways that makes clear the local

connection with the international events

Assignment No. 6 consis t

• f 2 parts.

Please find it on the Web page. Have a good weekend!