Is Hamid Masouminejad employed by Radio and Television?

Charso Press: It has been a few days since Hamid Masouminejad, the old Sedavasima reporter, spoke in Rome, Italy. He talked about being removed from the radio and his livelihood problems, which were very popular in the virtual space. During his talks, he refers to the term “Farsi-language freelance journalist” and says: I carry the title of radio reporter and people are kind to me for this reason, and I have not been in the news for 5 months and I am in a difficult situation.

In an interview with Tasnim reporter, Hasan Abedini, head of Sedavasima news agency, stated that journalists like Hamid Masouminejad work as freelance reporters in Sedavasima and do not have an employment relationship with this organization. He explains more about the details of the activities of freelance journalists and describes the way of cooperation of the Broadcasting Organization with these journalists.

Hassan Abedini

In this regard, he said: It is not only the national media that Azad uses, but this has happened in all the news agencies of the world. Freelance reporter means that people who have no employment relationship with the news organization and are paid for the report they send to that news organization.

He added: In professional networks, there is this routine that when a reporter wants to work on a subject or a report, he provides it to the news organization under the title of “script” and that news organization decides on it based on news value, audience orientation, and media policy. This causes the news media to be aware of the subject and content of the report from the beginning, in any case, in the form of news and professional principles, every report is not supposed to be published or broadcast, because that report may not have value for the audience of that media and news institution. be or not within the media policies of that news agency.

Referring to the conditions of using reporters’ reports in radio and television, Abedini explained: If a report is without a plan, it is possible that the report will not be broadcast, that is, for any reason, it lacks news value and will not be broadcast, so the salary cannot be paid, but the reporter may expect this to receive wages for production. To prevent this situation, the only way is to give a “plan” like journalists, and every journalist is required to do this. Our journalists also do this in the newsroom of Sedavsima news agency in Tehran; In the plan, it is said what is the subject of the report, what is the upstream document and the elements of their report, and what message does it contain, because if we say that a journalist in Tehran, even without this professional process, goes and prepares a report and does not have the ability to use it, from the rational and economic point of view , Not true.

He pointed out: Free journalism is the same everywhere in the world. We have freelance reporters in Egypt, Vienna, Tokyo, Gaza and other places because the broadcast location must be known, so each reporter must have a plan. These days, advertisements and teasers are aired on Khabar network every day, those who are interested can work as freelance journalists with the Sedavsima news agency, send their details and contact them, and these issues will be discussed. Those who accept this framework will have their reports approved and broadcast, but if a report is outside of this framework it may not be broadcast.

The head of the Sedavasima news agency said about the conditions of using a freelance reporter: “Each news agency has certain characteristics in order to have a reporter somewhere; For example, we will not send a reporter to a country where there is neither spiritual proximity nor geographical proximity and news center, and neither its events can be followed by the Iranian audience. There are many areas of the world where there was once a news center and a reporter was sent, and when the news center is no longer there, naturally no reporter is sent. If necessary, there is a freelance journalist anywhere in the world. It is possible that this reporter may or may not have a few news in a month, or he himself declares his readiness to prepare a report, or that news agency calls him and announces, “We want a report on this matter.”, in every At the same time, that plan should be changed so that the news gathering and report preparation will advance its own professional process.

He pointed out: Sedavsima has prepared a website to expand its news coverage, which invites freelance journalists from all over the world to cooperate. The cooperation of the freelance reporter on a daily and monthly basis depends on the news coverage of that area. One of the topics that raises the importance of using a freelance reporter and is followed by many news agencies is the discussion of reducing costs and increasing speed, in fact, with the salary paid to the freelance reporter, that news organization buys the report.

In summing up his speech, Abedini emphasized: increasing the speed and reducing the cost are the two main components of every news company in the third decade of the 21st century, so the Sedavasima news agency has turned to freelance journalists in this context. The trend towards freelance journalists is made so that the amount of expenses is reduced. The news company simply buys the news product and it doesn’t matter how many people were involved in its production.

In the end, the head of the Sedavsima news agency added: some freelance journalists act as backpack reporters, which of course the Sedavsima news agency supports them; That is, a journalist who is also responsible for filming, editing and sending, this is an important issue that due to the cost of reporting by foreign journalists compared to domestic ones, reports should naturally have a plan because if a report is received and paid for The news agency costs a lot. All independent journalists must act in this framework and the cooperation with the journalists who were active in the past continues in the same way, the plan must be revised; In this case, it is possible that they have a few news in a month or a few news in a year, everything depends on the news events.

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