Peran Koordinator Liputan dan Reporter dalam Pengelolaan Media Online Wehype.id bersama Impala Space

Abstract

Creative Industries in a region level are visible, for instance in Semarang, a city where a lot of young creative talents are showing up. But unfortunately a lot of creative talents, to be precisely, in Semarang haven’t exposed by the society yet. For example, one of creative industry in Semarang is Impala Space, It knows very well that media is needed to give appreciation toward creative industries in Semarang in order to be known by society at large. Impala Space is a collaborative work space or more known as co-working space. It’s a space that used for working together as a team with creative communities, Freelancers, Entrepreneurs or start-up businesses. Impala Space will become a centre of activity and creative industries development. Because of it, project team is making a collaboration with Impala Space to create an online media that discuss a lot of things about creative industries in Semarang. For instance, Wehype.id is a platform that become a place to share story about creative process in a work. Wehype.id believes on every creation of works there is always a long process which involves creativity. Therefore Wehype.id committed to become a communication funnel for every single creator to share stories, so we can understand the process and appreciate the works. Coordinator of Coverage in Wehype.id is a person that responsible for the media’s ideas of coverage by also paying attention to the news value of the object, before it will be delivered to the reporters to be covered. During this time, the coordinator of coverage of Wehype.id has done its job by arranging 90 ideas of coverage and as a reporter it already created 45 articles. In the future, Wehype.id hopes not only giving the informations but also inspiring and participating in the development of creative industries.