G20 media centre: How journalists from across globe worked as 'one family'
G20 Summit, sharing working space at the International Media Centre for the last three days made them experience the spirt of «one family». From September 8-10, scribes and camerapersons from Italy to Singapore and Turkiye to Brazil worked from the facility at the newly built Bharat Mandapam — the summit's venue.
In between work, they chatted over cups of coffee and Indian meals, and also learned about cultures of different countries from each other.
«The G20 theme is 'one world, one family, one future', and all of us have been working with one aim in one space, under one roof.
So, one can feel the spirit of the G20 here,» Michael Hoefele, who works for a news agency in Germany, said.
The International Media Centre is a working space spread over two floors in Hall No. 5 of the sprawling Bharat Mandapam complex.
G20 logos are splashed across huge decorative panels put up in the hall on the theme of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' — 'One Earth.
One Family. One Future'.
On Saturday, on the ground floor of the hall, in a corner, a TV journalist from Turkiye was doing a live broadcast while, near her desk, a German photographer was busy filing photos after the press conference of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
On Sunday, the second day of the summit, an Indian TV journalist in a saree interacted with a delegate while a reporter from Italy, sitting at a terminal close by, filed stories on a laptop.
«We all have been working here for the last three days, from pre-summit briefing on September 8 to the main summit on September 9 and the closure of the event today.
What I liked about the working space was that it has no walls to segment the space. A person sitting on one corner can see the person sitting at the other end,» TV journalist
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