Topic: NEWS GATHERING (Soft Skills)
Conducted by– MR. MITUL JOSEPH, CAPS
Held on– 15/10/2020
The CAPS session conducted by Mr. Mitul Joseph on News Gathering was an illuminating and engaging experience for the students of the MAIS department. The primordial aim of the session was to discuss the sources of gathering credible news and is basically a continuation of the previous sessions held on Media and Journalism. In this regard, Mr. Joseph talked about the relevance of obtaining and cross-checking news from other credible news channels despite those being the competitors in the professional domain and also accorded primacy to exclusive news reporting which could be news of national or global importance. Apart from that, there could be three types of sources for news collection that includes primary source relating to more direct and publicly accessible information deemed most credible like press releases, written documents etc, secondary sources or supplementary information and finally tertiary sources that might include leaked documents, the credibility of which are questionable and at times could also be sensitive enough and are mainly employed by investigative media houses. Other important aspects like information overload and under-load, proximity and timeliness relating to news accumulation were also discussed in the session.