DJMC holds day-long workshop on ‘Beat Reporting’
A day-long workshop on ‘Beat Reporting’ was organized by Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Govt. College for Women Srinagar for the students of Semester 3 and 1 on September 14, 2022.
The resource person for the workshop was noted journalist and Bureau Chief of Kashmir Life news magazine, Mr. Yawar Hussain.
The guest speaker shared his experience and valuable tips for covering various important news reporting beats including politics, administration, education and environment. He also referred to the changing trends in journalism with more and more importance given to multimedia skills of journalists. » Read more about: DJMC holds day-long workshop on ‘Beat Reporting’ »
Raheel Khursheed talks about positives and perils of social media
Government College for Women, M.A. Road, Srinagar hosted an online session with journalist-turned-tech entrepreneur, Mr. Raheel Khursheed as guest speaker on June 17, 2021. The webinar- first of the 2021 series being organized by Internal Quality Assurance Cell of the college- was attended by students and faculty.
Raheel is the co-founder of Laminar, a streaming/video infrastructure platform. Earlier, he was most notably associated with Twitter India in a senior executive role. He has also been associated with Snap, » Read more about: Raheel Khursheed talks about positives and perils of social media »
DJMC hosts workshop on tools and strategies to verify online content
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (DJMC), Government College for Women, M. A. Road, Srinagar organised an online workshop on ‘Social Media Audit: Tools and strategies to monitor social media and online content’ on May 29, 2021 (Saturday). Google News Initiative certified trainer, Dr. Archana Kumari was the resource person of the workshop.
Students from semesters 1, 2, 4 and 6 attended the session held via Google Meet. As part of its India training network, the Google News Initiative has been conducting workshops for students and journalists to train them in verification of online content to counter fake news. » Read more about: DJMC hosts workshop on tools and strategies to verify online content »
DJMC hosts talk on ethics and aesthetics of photojournalism
Photojournalist and documentary photographer Sanna Irshad Mattoo interacted with the students of Department of Journalism & Mass Communication (DJMC), Govt. College for Women, M.A. Road, Srinagar on April 12, 2021.
During the interaction session titled ‘Inside and Outside the Frame: Ethics & Aesthetics of Photojournalism’, Sanna shared her experience as a photojournalist. She also shared the story behind some of her acclaimed photo stories.
Sanna presently contributes to the international wire agency Reuters as a Multimedia journalist. » Read more about: DJMC hosts talk on ethics and aesthetics of photojournalism »
DJMC hosts multimedia masterclass with senior journalist Riyaz Masroor
Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, Govt. College for Women, M.A. Road, Srinagar held an interaction session with senior journalist Mr. Riyaz Masroor on April 10, 2021 (Saturday).
Mr. Masroor is currently working as J&K correspondent for BBC World Service. In the session titled ‘Multimedia for Beginners’, Mr. Masroor shared valuable tips with the students to excel as a multimedia journalist.
He shared his experience of working on important reporting beats including politics. He also shared some interesting anecdotes from his professional career while stressing on the need to constantly learn and improve. » Read more about: DJMC hosts multimedia masterclass with senior journalist Riyaz Masroor »
DJMC students explore world of news agencies with Shakoor Rather of PTI
Department of Journalism & Mass Communication, Govt. College for Women, M.A. Road, Srinagar held an interaction session with journalist and author, Mr. Shakoor Rather on March 27, 2021.
Shakoor is currently working as Deputy News Editor with India’s leading news agency- Press Trust of India. In the session titled ‘The World of News Agencies’, he shared valuable information about the structure and functioning of wire agencies. He also shared his experience of working with PTI in various roles during the last decade ranging from Copy Editor to Senior Copy Editor to Chief Copy Editor to Deputy News Editor. » Read more about: DJMC students explore world of news agencies with Shakoor Rather of PTI »
Challenges to Media education
The boom in the media industry across the globe has triggered a perception among the media practitioners that there is a need to evolve techniques that would ensure that the professionalism in the field is upheld at all costs. Given the emergence of social media and concepts like the citizen journalism there is a growing perception that the media industry in general and the journalism in particular may become a casualty. Easy availability of tools and platforms like the Facebook, » Read more about: Challenges to Media education »
Women’s Day celebrated at college
Mehwish Farooq & Uzma Zaffar report on the Women’s Day celebrations at the Government College for Women, M A Road, Srinagar. » Read more about: Women’s Day celebrated at college »
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