Journalist says social media is not news source

Jordanian media presenter Samar Gharayeba refused to consider social media networks as a source of news, saying that the role of social media is to allow the people to contact with each other not to provide information.

She added that at the beginning of her work, she studied at the hands of professors in the media. The most important thing she benefited from was that those who are creative in presenting programs must be creative in preparing.

She stressed that the media presenter should have a passion for field work to succeed and be more credible when providing information to the public, pointing out that she prefers to submit programs directly, because the announcer is responsible for every letter comes out of his mouth and every word he says programs that are recorded the announcer depending on Editing.

She expressed her pleasure for working as a journalist, saying that this career provided her with a great opportunity to prove her talent. She stressed that it was her aspiration to take this career since her childhood.

She praised the role of technology to develop this career saying that the journalist was exerting increasing effort to achieve his ambition years ago, while currently he can publish his material in few minutes without exerting a lot of efforts.

She stressed that she focused on developing the educational issue, saying that she devoted her articles and reports to discuss the challenges facing this vital sector. She added that her writings performed a major role to shed light on this critical issue and pushed the officials to take serious steps to improve it.