Phnom Penh (FN), Dec. 4 – Journalists should learn to develop News Update or News Developing, which is a part of Spot News, before writing News Feature, president of Fresh News Training Center (FTC) Mar Yarith said in a training session on Saturday.

News Update or News Developing is used when a big event occurs and that event will further develop more in the future. Journalists must continue to write updates on the story for the readers, Yarith added.

"Journalists need to keep track of those big events and write updates until the events completed. We, as journalists, must find relevant sources to provide information on the progress of this event,” Yarith underlined.

Over the past six weeks of the training session, FTC students learned how to write spot news, including the value of the 5Ws and How; news values, how to develop a good lead for a newswriting, how to add relevant background to the story, and how to conclude its newswriting.

Mar Yarith is a local veteran journalist, who has been working in the field of journalism for over 30 years. He has worked for various well-known foreign news agencies such as UPI, AP and VOA.

Yarith was also the founder and co-founder to several media outlets in Cambodia. Back then, he was the only Cambodian student majoring in journalism at the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland in the United States.

For more information about the FTC, please contact:
1. Mr. Pich Bunsay, deputy director general of Fresh News and deputy chief of staff of the FTC via 089 960 090.
2. Miss Than Raksmey, head of public relations via 092 322 334.
=FRESH NEWS