Since the broadsheet magazine „The Eutropian Independent“ is celebrating its recent foundation, we interviewed Victoria Guerin and Bob Woodstein, two of their reporters, since the beginning of the magazine, about the history of “The Eutropian Independent”, their team and about the current situation of the press.
“The Eutropian Independent” is a brand new newspaper which began its work at the beginning of the Eutropolis Conference on Migration-Related Issues. Like all the other Eutropian newspapers, “The Eutropian Independent” is seated in Brynnland. Woodstein justifies this by saying that “you cannot ignore your cultural background which influences your writings.” The original idea was to found a newspaper that goes beyond the boarders of Brynnland and reflects the opinions of all Eutropians in general.
This “new invention” of an Eutropian newspaper worked out very well so far. The seven members of “The Eutropian Independent” are working together on a democratic basis: the newspaper has no chief editor, but they all share some responsibilties.
Concerning the current situation of the journalist´s rights, Woodstein and Guerin stated that they are happy to work in Brynnland since they believe that its government generally speaking guarantees the freedom of press. They just have heard of ”small incidents” in former times. According to Woodstein there exist “countries that are more problematic than Brynnland”: he mentions Eastland as an example where the journalists might suffer some restrictions on their freedom.
The journalists of “The Eutropian Independent” fortunately have their own philosophy about what are their duties. Its their convention to distinguish between “news” and “opinion”. Therefore they try to “give neutral information or at least both parts”, so that their readers can shape their own opinions. In addition, they use a couple of clearly labelled formats such as news bulletins, news articles, feature articles, (ironical) comments and even caricatures . “The Eutropian Independent” also wants to encourage the their readers to write letters to the editors in order to be able to reflect the opinions of all Eutropians.
“The Eutropian Independent” is a brand new newspaper which began its work at the beginning of the Eutropolis Conference on Migration-Related Issues. Like all the other Eutropian newspapers, “The Eutropian Independent” is seated in Brynnland. Woodstein justifies this by saying that “you cannot ignore your cultural background which influences your writings.” The original idea was to found a newspaper that goes beyond the boarders of Brynnland and reflects the opinions of all Eutropians in general.
This “new invention” of an Eutropian newspaper worked out very well so far. The seven members of “The Eutropian Independent” are working together on a democratic basis: the newspaper has no chief editor, but they all share some responsibilties.
Concerning the current situation of the journalist´s rights, Woodstein and Guerin stated that they are happy to work in Brynnland since they believe that its government generally speaking guarantees the freedom of press. They just have heard of ”small incidents” in former times. According to Woodstein there exist “countries that are more problematic than Brynnland”: he mentions Eastland as an example where the journalists might suffer some restrictions on their freedom.
The journalists of “The Eutropian Independent” fortunately have their own philosophy about what are their duties. Its their convention to distinguish between “news” and “opinion”. Therefore they try to “give neutral information or at least both parts”, so that their readers can shape their own opinions. In addition, they use a couple of clearly labelled formats such as news bulletins, news articles, feature articles, (ironical) comments and even caricatures . “The Eutropian Independent” also wants to encourage the their readers to write letters to the editors in order to be able to reflect the opinions of all Eutropians.
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