Deccan chronicle- A Visit


Instead of thinking about it, I finally made it in person to the Deccan Chronicle office to see how things function & its needless to say, I only got an overview of newspaper operations (that too a basic overview ;-)). Its really an exiting job for people who like to track particular sectors of news, for instance if I am guy who loves cricket, I can start as a sports (cricket) reporter and die as one (well, I am doing what I love...that's the juice to the job/life).

Everyone working for a newspaper is a reporter, they need to report news which belongs to their beat (that's a term for department/domain as we say in IT). I am not a cut for being a reporter but still the job seems interesting as its exactly what journalists do, I discovered a very silly fact that journalism is not what I like; I am into Publishing and the two are very very different (that's what the editor told me).
Keywords to publishing/journalism- creation of content (from my visit)
  • News hungry people- assigned beats
  • Following TV, Radio & All the possible newspapers (from English to local languages)
  • Deadlines with submission
  • From Reporter to Sub Editor to Editor to Chief Editor in Hyderabad (I think so)
  • Lots of Facebooking, Twittering, Internet research & of course millions of phone calls
  • No job hours, news is made every god damn minute, so, be there when required
  • Contacts run the business, reporters need to build a rapport and always be a people person coz they (people) are the once who are making news
PS: Thanks to my mom's contact for giving me a good lead to reach the right people.
PS: It's given me a wider thinking to what my start up can be like and how to fine tune my plans to make it a little less risk prone, so, overall it was a good meet.

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