Analogous Situation – Journalism Interviewee – Haris Usman, Reporter for a business News tv channel in Bombay, India



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Analogous Situation – Journalism
Interviewee – Haris Usman, Reporter for A Business News TV Channel in Bombay, India


  • Why this analogous situation?

    • Teachers need to be versatile responders in the classroom – diffuse/contain unanticipated behavioral problems (kids acting up, kids throwing up, kids fighting each other, kids not paying attention) while executing instruction. There are many different situations every day, and every day is different. Teachers have to learn to respond quickly, diagnose and decide on their feet, and prioritize multiple demands to run the classroom.

    • Journalist deal with these changing conditions all the time. How does journalism operations work, and how do students get trained to work in journalism?



  • Haris’ background: Huge consumer of news, studied econ undergrad, then journalism grad school, then reporter for channel, then news anchor

  • Described process flow of TV news station: multiple reporters (get info), Input desk (prioritize info), editors (clear info), Output desk, Production (audio/video footage)

  • Reporter on Economy beat

  • Every evening, send a list to Input Desk of agenda for tomorrow (2-3 lines). They can also suggest to you events. Bulk of job is developing your own story.

    • Meet people on/off record (with/without camera)

    • Events

    • Snooping around for info

  • Synthesize on the spot – TV news

    • Experience – interest rates are important, but short  play this in a bullet

    • Major and important, e.g. stimulus package  play this, then take me on air

    • Meantime, get on phone off record interview, then incorporate that in

    • Work with senior reporter for 1 month

    • Learn in journalism school: hands-on, go out and shoot stories

    • Get a sense of how “newsy” something is – what matters to audience. The biggest thing is the “so what,” always ask yourself, “If I have a piece of info and someone has to ask so what? That’s not news.” – you realize whether something is important or not – through classroom discussions, different electives in economics so you understand what’s important in that area

    • J-school technical skills: put together a story, script it, assess info

    • J-school learn storytelling skills

  • Crazy news day: chief of stock market regulators meet with chief of insurance regulators and finance minister on whether insurance companies could invest in certain markets and how

    • High stakes: Liquidity of markets, every piece of info released will move the market

    • Get things off-record vs. get their statements on-record

    • Plus, quarterly GDP data were coming out

    • Left at 7am, ended 11pm, no lunch

    • Meet inside Ministry, where cell phone networks are bad

    • Be outside Ministry at 8am, on air, “this is what’s going to happen today, these are the possibilities”

      • Tell cameraman to send to Production, Haris calls Input to tell them, sometimes by email and into flash/breaking news to Input/Editor. That day he sent 4 short bullets

      • Got him on air again

    • Negotiate back and forth priorities of time: reporter can make most of decisions

    • There are certain defined things: go on air at 9am, 120 seconds

    • But you cannot have a strict protocol (go for a meeting or go on air)

  • Unexpected story breaks out: Input sends out an email

  • There are lots of protocol – order of contact, who makes what decision, when you contact them, in what order. Learning the protocol

    • Sit there for a couple days, see what happens. Then go out there, if you get a story, call Input.

    • 2nd week on the job - I came late – I learned not to be late, and alternatives if I am (bureau chief sat me down later and told me)

    • Follow the camera guy as he gives the footage to Input: do it at minute 2:36 – I learned that procedure that day by doing it wrong

  • Jschool: technical parts, as you go to each step, the guy at that station tells you


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