Students & Education

The Indian Institute of Journalism and New Media (IIJNM) has announced plans to offer television journalism courses during the upcoming academic year. The institute says that TV journalism students will learn how to write and edit broadcast news as reporters, editors and producers. They will also learn to use the latest TV production equipment in hands-on classroom exercises. New courses added to...

Asian broadcasters are invited to apply for fellowships to attend a training course in the Netherlands on reporting socially divisive issues. The course will take place at the Radio Netherlands Training Center (RNTC) in Hilversum from January 31 to April 22, 2005. Full scholarships are available to mid-career journalists Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka...

The pattern emerges, strong and sharp. Hindustan Times is vigourously appealing to the youth. And to that end, starting today, the Delhi-based publishing group has rolled out a new newspaper - Hindustan Times NEXT - targeted purely at readers in the mid-teens and early twenties (essentially, late schoolers, college students and non-working adults). "Hindustan Times NEXT would be radically...

A World War II cemetery in India became a subject to test journalists’ writing skills during a five-day workshop in the northern state of Nagaland, one of the country’s most remote areas. The course on balanced reporting, conducted in January by the Thomson Foundation, was designed for local journalists in Kohima, Nagaland’s capital. Thomson said that 12 of the workshop participants were from...

One could argue that the faster we produce journalism, the more time we should be thinking about journalism, but of course the reality is just the reverse. Our breakneck, 24-7 media environment simply allows no time to contemplate what we do, or why it matters, or how to do it better. There's only time to keep shoveling--which has grave repercussions, which we should be thinking about, but there's...