المندوب الخاص .. كتاب معلم الصحافة والإنشاء

Special delegate

It became clear to us from the foregoing that newspapers get their local news through informants. As for its non-local news, it is obtained from three sources: First, news agencies, in which newspapers subscribe. Secondly, the private correspondents, upon whom the newspaper relies, to obtain news from cities, villages and regions of interest to it. Thirdly, the delegates who send the newspaper from time to time to different places to convey to it topics that are too important to be left to the correspondents. Undoubtedly, it is one of the things that raises the position of the informant that the newspaper in which he works relies on him to carry out a special mission outside the city. It means that he is qualified to assume responsibility, and that he has become a responsible informant, reviewer, and editor at the same time, because he is authorized to prepare his story to be sent to the printing press immediately. And when he arrives at the place of the accident to which he was dispatched, he begins to prepare the necessary arrangements for sending his telegrams. First of all, he knows the location of the telegraph, and records his working hours in order to send his telegrams through him as soon as possible so as not to be late for the printing dates. Then he has to read the newspapers that are published in that place, as they are of great benefit to him because they provide him with information about the nature of life in the city and the prominent personalities therein, and perhaps details of the incident for which he came to cooperate with the correspondent of the newspaper that sent him if it has a correspondent there, or the editors. who work for local newspapers. And he has to mention throughout his stay that his newspaper sent him to work, not to take a vacation. And he must not forget the instructions of his superiors and the kind of story they want, because his success in this task encourages the newspaper to rely on him in other, larger and more accurate tasks. This is what requires him to be meticulous in observation and strong in memory, dealing with every situation from the angle of honest analysis and looking for hidden facts and motives without adding anything of his own. And he attributes every saying to its source, who was not satisfied with what he heard showing the other side of the problem. He expands his circle of acquaintances in every possible way, so that he is on the edge of knowing everything, as he may need to write about him one day. And to be with other people, especially those who benefit him in his mission, and to accustom himself to patience and perseverance. He may enter the door at the moment when despair overtakes him and he tries to leave what he was assigned to search for. He must be honest and not make up something that does not exist or imagine additions that did not happen. And to be clear thinking precise expression.