Friday, April 27, 2012

Tourism affected due to Naxalism

This is the multimedia editorial news. In this video ANI news agency highlights the tourism problems.



Effective News Story in Multimedia Format.

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/05/30/us/1194840597846/war-without-borders.html

I think this news is very important because Washington state is fighting against drugs. Now a days Washington state government is thinking to banned Marijuana drugs in the state. This debate is going on in the State Senate. The timing of this news perfect 9 mints 15 seconds. They covered all important points in the news, in which they mentioned from where drugs supplied and how it reaches to US.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Reliving the Titanic

Titanic memorial cruise | Reliving the Titanic experience | Photos World | - hindustantimes.com


The slide has all the news pointers encode in it which determines its news value as the word titanic has now been familiar to approximately everyone in the world after the film release of titanic. Hence the prominence factor is there. The other most important thing which determines its news worth is that it appeals the proximity of richest people of the world to get the ticket of the historical cruise, this proximity make this news important for the high class society. It also has a general popularity element due to the human interest factor as everyone on this planet who knows about the tragic incident of past can surely be attracted by this news.
This cruise will revive the fantasy world of titanic which sank years before .the rooms the lounge the hall the deck everything is set in such a manner that at 100th anniversary of titanic, its pure aroma will led each passengers to way back in 1912 and the route will include the iceberg also where the ship got smacked . The royal entry will also be including in the cruise to make it perfectly historic. Pamphlets and standees everywhere on the cruise will tell the story of titanic.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

The Do's and Don'ts of Social Media and Journalism:


Everyone has now accounts on different social sites. Even now few news organizations can now reservation the fundamental role, which social media plays in the different news gathering networks, as an outlet for journalism. 

Five Social Media and Journalism Do’s:

1.                   Be Active:
For a journalist it is important to be active on twitter, so you can get different ideas from the people whom you follow or your followers. Staying active on twitter helps journalists in many different ways, but if a journalist is using twitter once in week, its sound wired.  

2.                   Make Large Social Network:
Social networking is the important helpful tool of journalists. A Journalists should make a large social network on twitter because its help out in several ways because you never know when you can need them.

3.                   Update: 

Social networking is a good tool of journalists. Good way to stay in touch with your social networking circles is to update news, and give more updates on the development of the story.

4.                   Feel Free to ask about story idea:
On social media journalist should ask about people thoughts on the story idea. The journalist can ask his network that “Hey guys I need to story on politics, I need a thoughts from you guys.” 

5.                   Engage your followers:
Keep your followers engage because by doing this you can get opinion on different issues, which also helps them to get idea about story and sometimes journalists can use the good opinions in his story as well. 

Five Social Media and Journalism Don’ts:

1.                   Vulgarity:
Never post any kind of vulgarity on the social networking. As we all know our twitter or any other account is our identity or brand. 

2.                   Political Views:
A journalist should avoid posting his personal political views. Being a journalist our responsibility is to tell truth, but we are not supposed to give our views or opinion on any public platform. 

3.                   Don’t Share your personal information:
Engaging followers doesn’t mean that you share your personal information because it may put yourself in some kind of danger. 

4.                   Don’t write off the record stuff:
Being a journalist it is your journalistic duty not to share off the record stuff because this is unethical. If journalist does this thing, it may affect the credibility of journalist.

5.                   Don’t post your Funky photos:

Being a professional, a journalist should avoid posting his funky or funny photos because it is totally unprofessional behavior.