Wednesday, February 9, 2011

"CITIZEN JOURNALISM"

Definition of Citizen Journalism:                       
                                                    Citizen journalism also known as "public", "participatory",  or "street journalism".is the concept of members of the public "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news and information,".
                                                    
                                          
                                      
on 29 Jan 2011,producer of "wired and Active" in the Dawn News Channel Mr.Owais Mungalwala paid a visit to Jinnah University For Women to deliever a  lecture  on CITIZEN JOURNALISM.He has been engaged with the Dawn News Channel since 2007 and is now being producing and anchoring the current show named as "Meri Khabar" based on citizen journalism.He stated that people uses journalism as a tool to express their opinion,views among the peolpe of world.

Moreover he discussed  that citizen jounalism share four things,which are:


1.sharing of discovery
2.sharing of opinion(blog)
3.sharing of experience
4.sharing of experties(experience in which are you are expert)


Furthermore,he included that if a person having idea on any topic,should make a report band then send it to Dawn News channel.if channel selected  that  particular topic so they will be appointed as a reporter to play their role in our channel.

He highlighted that a person should keep following points in his/her mind in order to make report  which are given as under:

1.Accuracy
2.Report about any event whether it is vast or small.
2.neccessity to be real
3.write your own point of view
4.don't think the topic is boring
5.positive promotion
6.code of condut
7.avoid plagirism
8.keep your eyes open
9.feedback
10.try to find random person
11.should follow steps of news writing
12.be descriptive                                           



He said that every single person can be a REPORTER by following these keys which are as  above. finally he sum up the lecture in an enthusiastic way.our Mass Communication dept thanked his whole team memebers and request him for coming again to make us more knowledge able by providing the best information.In the end  the memeber of their team collected the feedback from all of us for their new programme which was" Mast Morning with Maira".they also played the video clips of that morning show..
it wa  a memorable and marvellous seminar we all enjoyed it.


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