On 29th Jan 2011, seminar was convened in JINNAH UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN for mass communicators.
There was a lecture on Citizen Journalism by the producer and anchor Owais Mangalwala of programs of Dawn News.
He shared some information about citizen journalism. According to him: Citizen Journalist is a person who shares his experiences, opinions, experties and discoveries. Democracy is the power which is in the hand of the people, every single person has right to talk on any type of topic.
He also mentioned some key points of citizen journalist’s report, said: necessity is to be real, events are all around us we should not wait for the controversial news, reporter’s point of view needed (express by your own views and opinions), don’t even think reporter’s point of view is boring, each and everything selected by him is special and important, accuracy is the key (facts and figures should be very accurate),writing style should be proper(use right tenses and vocabulary), code of conduct/ethics matters too much in journalism, avoid plagiarism(someone else’s work), find a mentor ,gathered with people who are related to the specific field, think on criticism(how to face criticism),at the end he added:
“everything can be reported there is no restrictions what can be reported.”
In the lecture, huge number of students of mass communication and some teachers were present there. After Owais Mangalwala, Miss Humaira Ali took part, she thanked him for coming and giving the lecture and requested him to come again.
After the lecture there was a lunch for the guests.
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