Turkish Cypriot journalist İsmet Özgüren gave conference entitled “One Piece of News, Four Scripts” at Eastern Mediterranean University Communication Faculty.
Participating in the conference as the guest of EMU Communication Faculty student application newspaper Gündem, Özgüren provided detailed information on how to script and present a single news item at a newspaper, television, radio and internet. Sharing his different versions of scripts on drugs with students, Özgüren answered students’ questions. Özgüren put forth that radio news should contain short and explicit sentences as long news scripts are not suitable for radio. Özgüren added that TV news should contain a large number of visuals and newspapers are more suitable places for long news scripts to appear. Talking about the possibilities of internet journalism, Özgüren stated that Cyprus Turkish internet media is still at its beginning stage.
Following Özgüren, EMU Communication Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Süleyman İrvan stated that any news item should be produced with decency and should not deviate from what actually happened. Prof. Dr. İrvan also put forth that news on drugs or suicide should be produced with extreme care so that they do not motivate others to engage in such activities.