News is a rush
If you are into journalism, media, pr, news etc. you already know that experienced newsaddicts pre-sort what you need to hear or read about. Paris Hilton's release from jail is important but a typhoon in a country far away might not be. A similar typhoon in a former colony is again important as is all soccer news, national politicians and the queen.
Anyways, these news addicts sit behind their desks and get like 10 emails every second containing different newsworthy items. They select which ones will be forwarded to papers and other media and which ones will be deleted. These simply dissapear from the face of the earth.
In the Netherlands this very important task is done by the Netherlands National News Agency (ANP). The PR-agency I work for is an important client for them and thus we set up a company visit. We got a tour passed the "heart of the news room" a.k.a. the Titanic (highly stressfull area, 24 h shifts and shaped like a ship). The tour also took us passed the photography department and the radio department.
PR people are like many people working in the media real newsaddicts. We were asking the guy whether we could acces their database so we could get the news at the same time the journalists do. Unfortunately we have to wait, just like the other people.
News is so thrilling......
Anyways, these news addicts sit behind their desks and get like 10 emails every second containing different newsworthy items. They select which ones will be forwarded to papers and other media and which ones will be deleted. These simply dissapear from the face of the earth.
In the Netherlands this very important task is done by the Netherlands National News Agency (ANP). The PR-agency I work for is an important client for them and thus we set up a company visit. We got a tour passed the "heart of the news room" a.k.a. the Titanic (highly stressfull area, 24 h shifts and shaped like a ship). The tour also took us passed the photography department and the radio department.
PR people are like many people working in the media real newsaddicts. We were asking the guy whether we could acces their database so we could get the news at the same time the journalists do. Unfortunately we have to wait, just like the other people.
News is so thrilling......
posted by Floor @ 6:45 AM
2 Comments:
At 9:58 AM ,
Pierre said...
News definitely is thrilling. :)
Although sometimes I get the feeling that the news is not decided in a newsroom, but at dinners and lunches by fat, old men who smoke expensive cigars and fly around the world in their private jets. (I like conspiracies! :))
At 4:25 AM ,
Floor said...
Well Pierre, you might have a point there. A Dutch journalist has recently wrote about the influence of CNN and BBC on Dutch journalism. Since the Netherlands is too small, we cannot get access to any of the huge events and thus have to rely on other sources like Bloomberg, CNN and BBC. And who own these companies?? Right.....cigars, private jets and beluga it is.
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