How are information materials prepared for publication in the media?

At the initiative of the Information Resource Center and the Department of Uzbek and Russian Languages ​​of the UWED, was held a meeting between students and employees of the republican mass media. The guests of the university – deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Advocate" Shakhnoza Khalsaidova and deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Teacher of Uzbekistan" Olga Surgutanova, head of the department of the newspaper "Marifat" Zilola Madatova and the newspaper's correspondent Shoira Boimuradova told the audience about the directions of their publications, the specifics of preparing materials for publication requirements for texts and photographs. The editorial staff of the journal "Advocate" is doing a great job of explaining and familiarizing readers with the protection of their rights in various spheres, consumer, service sector, when citizens contact with various difficulties and complaints. The ability to listen, understand people correctly and be responsive, responsible for your business is one of the important qualities of a modern specialist.

The newspapers "Marifat" and "Teacher of Uzbekistan" have an educational and educational focus, they have departments of higher education, sports and youth, marketing and advertising, a department for work with schools, etc. The newspaper "Marifat" is preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary, is a favorite publication of young people, educators and the general public. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Khusan Nishanov, strives to orient the team towards the coverage of the most relevant, important for readers, much attention is paid to the design, design of the publication and thematic pages. With these, the editorial office opened a school of journalistic skills, everyone who wants to cooperate with the newspaper, learn to write information, notes, articles, including students, high school students, lyceum students, etc. your opinions, wishes. The last page of newspapers contains telephone numbers, editorial sites, addresses of mobile applications, telegram channels. Anyone can write information, material on a cultural, educational topic and send for publication in Uzbek or Russian. “There is only one request to you,” said deputy editor of the “Teacher of Uzbekistan” newspaper Olga Surgutanova, addressing the young - let it be your material, not copied or altered by someone else's. Personal experience, your personal perception, assessment, opinion is always valuable to us, we keep the author's individuality."

The meeting was held in an interactive form, many students expressed their opinions and asked questions on the issues discussed. So, students were interested in how much printed newspapers are needed. after all, the majority sit and receive information on the online network (Samandar Samadov), on what topics it is better to write, in what volume, format (Saida Sattarova), how the ratings of newspapers are determined, how to distinguish journalistic material from propaganda (Shakhnoza Sodikova), etc. In the guests' answers to the questions asked, it was said that reading a newspaper, turning its pages, is like the joy of communicating with a friend, senior comrades. The newspaper with the article you like can be stored for a long time, and always re-read at any time. While searching on the Internet takes time, and not always all newspaper publications are reflected there. You can write about everything, about your first teacher, about teachers who had a strong influence on you, about a book, about a theater, a play, your favorite musical group, about a meeting with an interesting person, artist, diplomat. You can send your poems, essays, stories, if any, someone is fond of this. Regarding the ratings, the answer was that there are different measuring campaigns, organizations, more often polls are carried out among the viewer audience to determine the popularity of TV channels, etc.

At the end of meeting head of the UWED department Mehribon Abdurakhmanova thanked the guests for the informative conversation, discussion, noted that a future specialist in the field of politics and diplomacy needs to be able to prepare information, give operational messages about important international, public events. Students were asked to prepare materials for the thematic strip "Student Meridian" of the newspaper "Teacher of Uzbekistan". This will be their first independent test of creativity in cooperation with the republican mass media. In the reading room of the university library were presented filing of newspapers, magazines, textbooks on journalism and information analysis.

Fatima Muminova,
professor, editor of the publishing department of UWED