We had two great sessions with Rahul Chandavarkar. with the aid of a powerpoint presetation, he gave us insight on how a news agency is actually run. we did a detailed analysis on the layout of the newspaper - right from the first page to the last. he also gave us an in-depth account of news as well as feature writing. we studied the slightly different formats of the two leading newspapers of Pune - the times of india and the indian express.
we learnt the basic news formula - 5 Ws and 1 H i.e. who, what, when, where, why and how. the answers for these are the backbone of any news article. it is essential that most, if not all, of these be answered. it definitely gave us a headway for the OS newsletter.
Rahul even told us about the various sources for news and how news is gathered. it was a real eye-opener for those of us who hadn't ever worked with a newspaper or done any writing before. we got all our doubts cleared and questions answered by him. he ended by telling us about the structure of heirarchy in the agency and the role of each person.
it was a much needed session as media is an important tool in a country like ours.
the next day we had an 'editorial meeting'. some of us became the editors of the OS newsletter while the rest of us were reporters. there were discussions on how we were going to go about doing our projects. it was a session of brainstorming where all of us gave our ideas and inputs about each project.
we enjoyed as well learnt a lot about writing from these sessions.
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