Quite often TV and radio programs are interrupted because of “breaking news”. News, even if it is not “breaking”, it is information about something what supposedly is interesting and involves big groups of people (if not all of us). In professional journalism there are rules qualifying information as being news: it should be short, to the point, containing compact information about the core of the problem, be new to the public and somehow interesting to masses.

The other side of that “equation” is a story. A story is often based on news. Some journalists, upon delivering brief news to the public continue pursuing the topic and its creator(s) to build a complete story, but in order to build a story one must have time, patience, determination and interest. When I was a journalist, not all of us were interested in stories. Quite many were only interested in their pursue on delivering the news; one after another, new people, new facts and new information. I was interested in the story behind the news. I enjoyed digging deeper and finding out how it happened? What made people (or the individual) follow just an initial idea or thought, bring it to fruition and be granted the final, amazing result of becoming leading news? What was the background of the person (or each of the team member), what motivated him, her or them to stick with it?

When we think about it, it can be compared to nature: there is a seed, which represents our news. Many of the seeds we plant, not all of them develop into a full plant. Some die before anyone sees or pays attention to them. Some of them however, grow strong, flourish in their own way and catch our attention. The same is with news. There are plenty of them – we are truly overwhelmed with them every day at almost every minute. Not all of them make it to the main stream of info and become “breaking news” or “leading news” or even news worth investing valuable and costly TV time into.

Every bit of news has the potential of become quite an interesting story. It all depends on how long and how deep we want to “dig” to uncover it. Sometimes it becomes some kind of a mission. Some news arise fascinating biographical books or scientific dissertations. Why? Because behind every “news” there is a person, his or her life, passions, emotions and hard work. That is what interests us and what fascinates us. That is also what motivates us to become better. It inspires us to pursue our own dreams, ideas and fascinations.

A story delivers what news will never do. That’s why we say that today’s news is the history of tomorrow. But let’s not forget that it can possibly become a history leading to a story, which can – potentially – change the life of someone like you and me.

Each of us is like a ship carrying cargo containing tons of amazing stories of us. Will you (and I) be brave enough to –one-day - come to the harbor to unload the ship?

I would like to witness it and learn about it.