Media Education

31 May. It was the third day of the Media Education course for the young Jesuit Brothers. Ms Sushma Bhat, sub editor, Vijaya Times, was the main resource person of the morning. She spoke on ‘Newspaper: Inside Out’. She shared various sources of news and its economics.

Mr Manjunath, reporter, Vijaya Karnataka, was also present.
In the evening, Fr Richie Rego SJ, Dept of Journalism, screened Dweepa, Girish Kasaravalli’s award winning film. Some of his journalism students and Ms Suman Priya (Lecturer, Dept of Journalism) were also present. The youngsters were gripped by the enormity of this saga. It will be followed by a discussion on Thursday at 4.00pm

Jesuit Brothers Study Media

31 May. It was the third of the Media Education course for the young Jesuit Brothers. Ms Sushma Bhat, sub editor, Vijaya Times, was the main resource person of the morning. She spoke on ‘Newspaper: Inside Out’. She shared various sources of news and its economics.

Mr Manjunath, reporter, Vijaya Karnataka, was also present.

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It rained 6.1 CM at SAC Campus in the last 24 hours (between Sunday morning and Monday).

Rains are lashing Mangalore with fury.

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It’s rainy days, once again! Or, so it feels! Even before the Met. department’s predicted monsoon could arrive!

Mangalore has seen heavy downpours in the last three days. For example, in the last week it rained a little, and then, on Thursday night it was quite a lot. So did it rain well (8.1 cm)! It rained the entire night lasting till this morning. A whopping 21.6 cm of rain in the 24 hours between Saturday 7.30 am and Sunday 7.30 am in the SAC campus. It continues to rain. In certain places close to the city, there is news of floods!

In contrast, it did not rain in Bangalore, at all. Though it rained well last week, yesterday (Saturday, when I was in Bangalore) there were no signs of rains. Of course, weather in Bangalore is really good!

Seminars for the Second & Final Year Journalism Students

Assignments
[These are not merely ‘reading books’ excercises; they are assignments to be submitted in
• about 20-30 pages each
• to be Computer-typed (a hard copy + a soft copy)
• in 13 size fonts
• single spaced
• written IN YOUR WORDS, not quotations
• wherever quotations –which should be only to prove your point, and be kept to the minimum- exact reference be given
• Examples from current media practice, with exact reference (date, paper, edition, page, channel, station, programme, slot, etc) be given
• You are cordially invited to meet your Journalism Lecturers and discuss the topics, books and procedures, regularly
• Last Date for submission – 30 June 2006

Amritha & Sr Irene Savitha: : Evolution of Speech & Language; Signs and Symbols; Redundancies; Jargons; Journalese
Reference Books:
• Language Typology
• Miracle of Language
• New Approaches to the Science of Language
• Origin and Evolution of Language
• Lipiya Huttu matthu Belavanige – Devara Kondareddi (Kannada!)
• Professional Journalism – MV Kamath
• News Editing – Westley, Bruce
• Style in Journalism – Rao, PVL Narasimha
• Doing it in Style – Sellers, Leslie

Anjana, & Anaswara & Neha Alva: Writing for Print Media – Article Writing; Feature Writing; Letters to the Editor; Editorial Writing; Column Writing; Book Reviews; Profiles
Reference Books:
• Communication and Journalism in India India – D S Mehta
• Encyclopaedia of mass media and communication: Mass Media and contemporary social Issues Vol 1, 2, & 3. Pandey (S K)
• Art of Effective communication
• Beyond the Facts: Guide to the Art of Feature Writing – by Louis Alexander
• Writing Opinion for Impact
• Basic Source Material for News Writing by Joseph MK
• Basic News Writing by Melvin Mencher

Vini & Anusha: Writing for Radio; Radio Talks and Features; Radio News
Reference Books:
• Radio and TV Journalism by Hackemulder et al.
• Textbook on Radio and Radio and Television by Goyal & Mukherjee
• Basic Radio and Television by Sharma, S.P
• Beginning Radio and TV News Writing – Wulf Emery
• Making News – Sahay, Uday
•

Anisha, Anisha Sheth & Valene: Writing for Television; Script Writing; TV News; News Writing; Writing Reviews of Dramas and Films
Reference Books:
• Chitrabani: A Book on Film Appreciation –by Roberge Gaston
• Textbook on Radio and Radio and Television by Goyal & Mukherjee
• Digital Television Journalism by Aiyer
• Reviewing for Media (Collect the book from me)
• Television – Trundle
• Basic Radio and Television – by Sharma
• Writing and Producing Television News – by Gormly, Eric

Abrar Khan & Shilpa PC: Principles of Rewriting; Usage of Words; Translation & its techniques
Reference Books:
• Siting Translation by Tejaswini Niranjana
• Bhashantara Kale (Kannada)
• Bhashantara (Kannada)
• Basic News Writing by Mencher, Melvin
• Art of Editing – Bakette and Scissonrs
• Editing – Ahuja, BN & SS Chabra
• Copy Editing – Butcher, E.

Nishanth Kumar & Arron Menezes
Reference Books:
• Bhashantara Kale
• & Bhashantara (very brief summary – c 500 words each)
• + Translation Practicals (Meet me)
• PRODUCING TELEVISION AND FILM (for reading)
In case of any querries, please mail me to “richiersj@yahoo.com” or call me.

Seminars for the OTHER III Yrs
These instructions are meant, both, for the II & III Yr Journalism students for their seminar papers
Books for Reading, Synopsis & Criticism
(Word limit c. 4,000 – 6,000) Deadline: 25 June 2006
• The following students will read the suggested books and make a summary IN THEIR OWN WORDS. The summary should also include a brief review of the book read, in about 500-750 words).
• The HANDWRITTEN summary should be NEATLY presented only on ONE side of the paper, IN A FILE, with a beautifully designed cover page.
• You are expected to submit your assignment BEFORE 25 June 2006, 8.45 am.
• While submitting, you will have, also to give an ORAL summary to your lecturers.
• It should have a TABLE OF CONTENT page at the beginning, (after the TITLE PAGE), and a BIBLIOGRAPHY at the end in the prescribed manner below:

Bibliography
1. Cutlip, Scot M. et al. 1985. (6th edition). Effective Public Relations. New Jersy:
Prentice-Hall.
2. Kohli, Vanita. 2005. The Indian Media Business. New Delhi: Sage Publications.
3. Sahay, Uday (ed.). 2006. Making News – Handbook of the Media in
Contemporary India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
4. Smith, Ron F & Lorraine O’ Connel. 1992. Editing Today. New York: Oxford
University Press.
(Note: when a book has three or more authors, please follow the No. 1 model. If there are TWO authors, follow the No. 4 model. When there are two or more books assigned to you, please arrange the bibliography in alphabetical order).

Dipna Divakar – 1) Editing (B N Ahuja) & 2) Copy Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors
Sharath Ballal – News Editing (Bruce Westley)
Swethan – Principles of Modern Advertising (P K Aggarwal)
Marula Nisha – Basic Source Material for News Writing
Arun Thomas – Advertising (B N Ahuja & SS Chabra)
Chaitra Bhat – Advertising: Principles and Practice (Chunawalla & Sethi)
Chaya Ganapathi – Design of Advertising (Nelson Roy Paul)
Dhanuj RS – PR and Advertising (B N Ahuja & SS Chabra)
Joe Jacob – Applied Public Relations & Communications (K R Balan)
Jooly TA – Media and Public Relations: Cases and Problems (Moore et al)
Ngawang Dhonye – Corporate Public Relations (K R Balan)
Nishad N – Mass Media: Social Control & Social Change (Demers & Vishwar…)
Shyamala Umesh – Mass Media laws and Regulations (Rayudu & Rao)
Pooja R Bhat – Newspaper Organisation and Management (William Herbert Lee)
Riyas SC – Newspaper Layout and Design (Moen Daryll R)
Tanya Mukundan -Newspaper Management In India (Kothari Gulab)
Tenzin Woeser – 1) Only the Good News on the law of the press in India & 2) News is People: The Rise of local TV and the Fall of the Newsroom
Thanga Raj – Inside the Writers mind: Writing Narrative Journalism
Leo Tom – Internet Journalism in India (Gupta ,O M & Jasra Ajay S)
Mathew Augustine – Media Management in the age of Giants: Business Dynamics of Journalism.
Oinam Gunamani – Modern Journalism Issues and Challenges
Lobsang Choden – Practising Journalism: Values, Constraints, Implications.
Nikhil Oswald D’Sa – Freedom of Press in India (Noorani, A G.) & 2) Freedom of Press (Bhatia, Seetha)
Benubala N – History of Press:Press laws and Communications
Josef – Access Denied Freedom of Information in the Information Age
Rinzin – Handbook of Print Media,Technologies and Production Methods
?? ?? – Media and Communication Management.

II Yr – Journalism Students: Seminars
(For guidelines on the procedures, please refer the section meant for “Seminars for the OTHER III Yrs”)
Anchan Vaishali – 1, Reporting News about Religion: An Introduction for Journalists – Buddenbaum, Judith M. & 2. Kargilinalli Hadinelu Dina (Ravi Belagere)
Archana – 1) News Reporting & Editing ( Shrivastava K M) & 2) Samuha Samvahan (Devendra Kumar, Hakari)
Asha G – Netthara Kaniveyalli (Vittala Murthy, Arti) & 2. Art of modern journalism Astor (JJ)
B Gururaj – NewsWriting (Hough George A)
Bojamma BC – Writing & Reporting News: A Coaching Method
Harry Terry – Practical Newspaper Reporting (Harris, Geoffery & Spark, David)
Irshad MA – Audio Visual journalism (Ahuja, B N)
Madhuri – Reporting & Producing for Digital Media(Artwick, Claudette Guzan)
Mohammad Shabeer – Basic Journalism (Parthasarthy)
Ranjith KV – Beginners Guide to Journalism (Roy, Barun)
Santhosh Jochim – News Reporting & Writing (Lorenz, A. L. & Vivian J.)
Shravya BP – Technical Report Writing Today
Shubha K – Whose News? (Joseph Ammu and Sharma Kalpana)
Amritha Rao – Story Crafting: Process approach To writing news
Aneesha Kodial – Technical Report Writing Today (Pauley, Steven & Riordan, Daniel)
Mahima Bhat – Writing Reports (Seely, John)
Kevan NS – World News Prisim:Global Media in an Era of Terrorism
Lawrence – Modern Journalism issues and challenges
Sindhu MV – News Writers Handbook an Introduction to Journalism
Neha Sheikh – Understanding Journalism
Prathik – Here is the News!: Reporting for the Media (Parthasarathy, Rangaswamy)
Raisa Bernadette – Mass Media and Information Technology
Roona Poduval – Hand book of journalism and editorial excellence
Sajma Foundations of news journalism (Chauhan, Swathi & N. Chandra)
Sajna – Dimensions of modern Journalism
Sandhya – Cyber media Journalism: Emerging Technology
Sangeetha D – Hand book of journalism and Mass communication
Sangeetha Gopi – Hand book of jouralism style and substance
Saranya – Information Science and Journalism : a symbiosis
Shruthi M – Professional Journalism (Sethi, Patanjali)
Shyamala K – Sports Writing & 2. Technical Report Writing Today (Pauley, S. E. & Riordan)
Simi C D – Perspectives on Development Communication
Simi Kurien – Mass Communication and Journalism in India (Mehta, D H)
Soumya – Introduction to Journalism Into The Newsroom
Stacy – communication and Broadcasting
Vineetha – Scholastic Journalism
Sharlet M – Precision Journalism, a practical guide
Neha Gupta – Principles and Techniques of Journalism
Mrudula M – Principles of Journalism (Padhy, Prabakar)
Renuka B – Professional Journalism (MV Kamath)
Dhanusha TV – Covering Politics: A Handbook for Journalists
Nisheeth – Journalism as a proffession in India a sociological perspective
Rayappa – Journalism and Human Development: Making of the global Newspersons

In case of any doubts, difficulties, please get back to me at

PUC Results and After

PUC results have been announced after all the harakiri.
Many students have committed suicide after they got some undeserved, unexpected rude shocks. Reports are still pouring in about the drastic measures students are resorting to because of the unexpected results.

One of the worst i heard is this: a girl student who wrote the exam is marked ‘absent’ in her marks card. She is marked ‘840′ marks out of a maximum of 100 in the results shown by the Internet site! And she fails. Now, which is correct?

If and when such inconsistencies are set right, time would have flown by! It would not be before a 3-4 weeks before “corrected” results come. By then admissions to most colleges are over. In addition, students have to pay through their nose for the irresponsibility of the not-so-honourable actions of the honourable minister and disgraceful competence of the education department. It is not students’ fault; niether is it their parents’. But who has to spend money, fill whose coffers!

The irresponsible/ “adhika prasangi” minister and incompetent authorities need to dragged to court and punished severely.

All this mess because of the interference by the Honourable Minister for Education and incompetence of Education Department.

St Aloysius Degree College Admissions

There is much activity and life in the College Campus. The resuls of PUC have brought in students and parents from all the colleges from many States. For more details, please visit www.sacjournalism.blogspot.com

II Yr BA – Journalism Syllabus

Paper II: Reporting and Feature Writing

* News – definitions – news values – elements of news – sources of news – attributes of a reporter

* Structure of a news story – lead – body – types of leads – types of enws stories -crime – court – legislature – politics – education – sprots – writing different types of news stories – interpretative – investigative.

* Reporting for print – radio – television and new media.

* Interviews – types of interviews – preparation for interviews – morgue -techniques for print, radio and television.

* Agency journalism -reporting development – freelancing – mofussil copy.

* Types of features – difference between news and features – features and articles – features and editorials.

* TEchniques of writing features – columns and columnists – types of columns.

* Profiles – obituary – backgrounders.

* Cartoons – comics – illustrations – graphics.

* Feature syndicates – writing reveiw and criticisms – book review – film review – drama review.

BOOKS FOR REFERENCE:
* Professional Journalist – John Hohenberg
* News Reporting – B. N Ahuja & S.S. Chabra
* Professional Journalism – M V Kamath
* Interpretative Reporting – Curtis D MacDougall
* Reporting: Theory and Practice – M Babaprasad
* Features with Flair – Brian Nicholls
* Writing Features & Articles – A Warren
* Journalism in Modern India – R E Westly
* Reporting and Practice – M Babaprasad

N.B. This reference list is prescribed by the University. This is only a suggestive reading/ reference. There are very good books in the St Aloysius College Library as well as in the St Aloysius College Journalism Department Library. And many of them. You are requested to make use of them.

PUC Results & More

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There is some hot news for the admirers of this great institutions. You will find the results of the PUC (both day PUC & Evening PUC) announced. Please visit the sacjournalism.blogspot.com for brief news.

There will be a special announcement tomorrow (23 May) to follow, which many of us have been eagerly awaiting. Remember to visit the blog. The announcement will be posted on the net afternoon.

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We are in the last phase of cataloguing the films. Students are working hard to finalise and see that there are no ‘puc goof-ups’!