{"id":4845,"date":"2015-02-18T08:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media.am\/on-the-scene-qnar-khudoyan\/"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:46:43","slug":"on-the-scene-qnar-khudoyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/newsroom\/2015\/02\/18\/4845\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Scene: Qnar Khudoyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Square, the Presidential Palace, Mashtots Park, Afrikyan Building\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The locations are different; the actors, virtually unchanged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The same demonstrators, the same police officers, and the same journalists gather on the scene \u2014 each with his or her job to do.<\/p>\n<p>Media.am hereafter will meet journalists &#8220;on the scene&#8221; who will describe what they saw, heard, and felt and the already established principles in covering political and public demonstrations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#800000\"><strong>Qnar Khudoyan, Journalist, Epress.am<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Qnar graduated from the Department of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at Yerevan State Linguistic University named after Valery Brusov, with a major in English and international journalism. From 2010\u20132011, she worked at local daily <em>Zhamanak<\/em> and news site 1in.am. Since 2012, she has been a reporter for the news site Epress.am.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She currently follows and will try to follow in the future the following principles of journalism: do no harm, and don&#8217;t be dogmatic and superficial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtecenter\" dir=\"ltr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Hs2SCrU_lQ\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-small\"><em>Video interview in Armenian only.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2010, when I started practicing journalism, I was very enthusiastic with the public movement established in Armenia in the wave of 2008: I would go to the weekly rallies with great expectations. I considered myself a part of the movement, a witness to the making of history.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8671\/16567322192_d1077a8e68.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Initially, when covering rallies, I primarily focused on the main issue, but&nbsp;now I&#8217;ve begun to notice the details. Often they can raise issues of great importance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For example, worthy of attention is the moment when a police officer goes beyond the scope of powers vested in him and begins to give rally participants lessons on morality, Armenian national identity, and &#8216;right and wrong&#8217;. &#8216;Is it befitting a girl of your age to participate in such actions?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8611\/15945868394_6c714794eb.jpg\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto; width:100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also cover rallies that no one writes about. Having many flags at a rally or police detaining demonstrators are not mandatory for a good story. I think we must be guided not by the number of participants, but by the topicality of the issue, the nature of the conflict. That is to say, successful [news] coverage and a successful rally are different things.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Story and photos by Sona Kocharyan.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty Square, the Presidential Palace, Mashtots Park, Afrikyan Building\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The locations are different; the actors, virtually unchanged.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The same demonstrators, the same police officers, and the same journalists gather on the scene \u2014 each with his or her job to do.<\/p>\n<p>Media.am hereafter will meet journalists &#8220;on the scene&#8221; who will describe what they saw, heard, and felt and the already established principles in covering political and public demonstrations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","category-on-the-scene","author_posts-sona-kocharyan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}