PR and Journalism

Working in a publishing company means it’s always busy as magazines have to be printed on time and with no errors at all. Because Mongoose is a publishing company I’ve had the pleasure of not only working in the Pr division but also the Editorial where I’ve written various articles in the Newsweek; had to write about the best universities in America, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. It was challenging as I could not just copy and paste from the websites online but had to structure the articles in a way which would be interesting to the readers. I also had the chance to write for Arrivals which is a booklet given to foreigners at the airport in Malaysia. In this I wrote about the best hotels in KL, Best apartments and so on so forth. But the really exciting experience I had in the Editorial was when I was asked to go to a movie preview of Gulliver’s Travels; this was very exciting as only press was invited. The free pop corn and drinks made me for a second think of leaving the PR department lol! After the movie I had to write approximately 150 words of what I actually thought about the movie, what “I” thought, made me feel like a real journalist. These past few days I’ve learnt that there is mutual dependence between PR and Journalism. But hey this week I’m back to PR, and there’s an event (World Press Photo) coming up soon and it’s so hectic doing all the media invites and RSVPs. But I’ll talk about that on the next post! Bye :)