ما يجب توفره في الصحفي .. كتاب معلم الصحافة والإنشاء

What a journalist must have:

The journalist, by virtue of his difficult profession, lacks necessary things that must be present in him. In order to fulfill his mission fully and deserve the title, he agrees with other people in terms of physical and mental powers, and is distinguished from them by other powers other than those required by his goals and actions and created in him by practice and habit. The journalist is a news hunter and cannot trap his prey unless he searches for it passionately, opens his eyes everywhere until he sees it, and activates his hearing for every movement until he senses its presence. The news is always the journalist’s prey that he searches and asks about wherever he goes and wherever he goes, in the street, in the café, in the cinema, or in public parks. Even if he finds it, he checks its authenticity and then turns it into something common with his pen without adding anything to it. He has or lacks something that must be revealed, so as not to upset the balance of truth. In this way, people draw attention to it, and before that it was a familiar and normal movement, and perhaps hundreds of them passed by it while they were astonished by it. He goes out to his mission every day, and his motto is: “Stop, look, and listen...then go on your way.” Therefore, we see him as being able to write at any time he wants, not when his soul desires to write. He controls words and uses them in a clear sense. He controls style and expresses it in an easy, unfussy manner. He is harmonious in words and opinions. He is concerned above all with pleasing his readers, keen to influence their feelings and minds. He approaches problems from the perspective of honest analysis, and searches for hidden motives, especially when Others want to erase it from people's eyes. He always attributes every statement to its owner, so if he is not convinced by this statement, he exposes the side of the problem so that he does not fall prey to those with selfish interests. He always searches for the important news that Lord Noor intends to assign to the King of the Press in England, as he says: “If a dog annoys a person, this is not news, but if it bites Man or dog, this is news “because” is the only thing that helps increase the newspaper’s circulation. It is the news. News is everything that deviates from normal, familiar life and is the talk of the people.”

The journalist means to strengthen his memory and the presence of his mind to the greatest extent. He shows apathy in what he writes. Rather, he always tries to add new information to what he has and multiply it through any means, whether by reading, watching, hearing, or experimenting, until he becomes able to identify anyone who has seen him. Once, even if it is from a photo, and he can call him by his name, because that helps him in strengthening his relationships with many people who help him in his work, and he can mention their names under the photographs that the editorial secretary may not know, while he is forced to talk about them and present them to readers and newspapers, and he chooses. His friends are among the people who help him in his mission, wherever his work is, in a country, a village, or as a correspondent. He carefully considers what he sees of the disadvantages and virtues of life, and if he comments on any of it, it is without exaggeration or falsification, because he always makes sure that his point of view is valuable, and his ideas His judgments are high and his judgments are true, and that is why you see him penetrating into the innermost matters, and using himself as a stranger to people to expand the horizons of his information and culture, because he feels the human responsibility required of him, which does not accept his excuse when he makes a mistake or falls short, but rather requires him to drop from what he spreads everything that increases the turmoil and imbalance. Whether for his country or for all of humanity.

The journalist is equipped with great experience about the locations of antiquities, the nature of countries, the contents of museums, and the principles of research in large references such as dictionaries, general knowledge circles, dictionaries, types of local and foreign newspapers, and various works. He draws from them various topics, some of which are guided by the aforementioned references, and some of which inspire him by statues of art and marvels of the ancients, and he needs to... A camera, which he carries wherever he goes to take appropriate pictures related to his topic or the news he is researching, a small typewriter, and a recording machine that accompanies him wherever he hears impromptu speeches, or prepared statements in Parliament, or at political and social parties, making it easy for him to record them quickly and clearly.