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Every year, KIC organises an activity in cooperation with sister association Commotie from the RUG. Despite the pandemic, an interesting online in-house visit was arranged with RTL Nieuws! On Friday February 12 at 10:00, Ischa Gerrits, journalist at RTL Nieuws had joined the KIC Discord channel.
At the start, a few problems occured. Everyone was so excited, finally something other than the endless Corona hassle. The Discord channel could not handle it anymore because everyone had turned on their camera. Discord did not like that, so the channel froze. Luckily there was Daan to the rescue. He had fixed the problem in vijf minutes, so Ischa could really start his presentation.
Ischa started his talk with a sketch of his time as a Communication student. Then, he talked about RTL Nieuws and his tasks on the job. To keep us focused, he asked a few questions we could discuss in small groups. Questions like: How do you see the role of the media in the coming months? Which stories were underexposed? What did you miss? And maybe also: what should we keep doing? How do we face the challenges of reliability and credibility of the media in this changing media-landscape?
Many interesting questions were discussed, so after fifteen minutes everyone returned to the main room to share their thoughts with Ischa. He was very interested, because this was valuable feedback for RTL Nieuws.
All in all, it was an inspiring visit with a very enthusiastic speaker! Ischa is a sympathetic man and he was open to all questions and feedback. A bright activity that kicked off a beautiful Friday, certainly to be repeated!
Holly Jansen en Sanne Heesbeen - Professionele Activities Committee Study Association KIC
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