Do the media practitioner still scoop stories or not?

 

MY SAY

In journalism, a scoop or exclusive is an item of news reported by one journalist before others, and of exceptional news.

I started working in newspaper (Print Media) from 2003 until 2017.

I then joined the online news portal organization, starting my blog from 2017 till date.

The scenario in the media industry seems to change tremendously with the mushrooming of news portal, blogger, youtuber, social influencer and many newspapers having turn to news portal.

 

 

I tried to adapt to the current media scenario where media organization or the journalist himself, is less keen in scooping news.

The media members worked closely giving each other stories.

Be it political, government or private organization, these public relations in the organisation started to creating group chats to invite reporters to an event.

Or post stories and photographs to ease reporters in getting news during pandemic.

Looks like there is less ‘scoop’ stories in the media environment.

Unlike in the past, we need to scoop stories, always on the alert of good stories, and we create a lot of enemies in the media industry because of scoop.

After a scoop story was published, we may get an angry called from the competitor newspaper’s editor.

It is not easy to work as a reporter during the early years, where scoop is prominent among reporters.

The editor wants the newspaper to be saleable, therefore reporters need to scoop stories.

So, what say you whether you are a current or former media practitioner - is scooping stories still relevant today? Scooping is obsolete.