Journalism Education in India: Quest for Professionalism or Incremental Responses

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Parthasarathy Bharthur
Keyword(s):  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Constant Friction ◽  
Education In India ◽  
The Media ◽  
Different Levels

Journalism education in India is framed in the higher education system, comprising of programs in the universities, both government-supported and media-backed private institutions, as well as in-service and short-term courses offered by press associations and other organizations. They are offered at different levels from certificate to diploma to both undergraduates and postgraduates. Due to requirements of the media industry, there is a constant friction about the need to balance the academic and professional aspects in the curriculum. This has led to skepticism in the past about the relevance of formal journalism education. However, with globalization and growth of the media sector, there is an enhanced need for professionals. Many big media groups have launched journalism programs. Institutional and professional aspects of the programs in India and issues pertaining to curriculum, responses, and critique have been factored in this article.

scholarly journals The Drift in Journalism Education in India vis-à-vis New Media: Use of New Media by Administrators/ Educators in Journalism Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
Neha Jindal
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Willingness To Adopt ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Curriculum Instruction ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Practices

With new media becoming the mainstay of the journalism industry, there is a change in curriculum and pedagogy in journalism education. Even with Web 2.0 becoming the main source of news dissemination, journalism educators will still be required to impart skills to the next generation on writing with clarity, organizing ideas cleanly and working efficiently as a team. The change will be in the methodology, and has to be accepted by the institution at the administrative level first. Since journalism education is required to develop a rational capacity in future graduates, and help them attain all skills essential to understand the media industry with regard to new media practices and changing trends, journalism administrators and educators have to be ably equipped with the skills, only then these can be delivered to the students. The study is about private and public (government) journalism schools in India and focuses on their willingness to adopt the requisite skill set and display adaptability towards using new media. It includes interviews conducted with administrators (who are also educators) in government and private journalism institutions in the country, concerning acceptance of new media and adoption in curriculum, instruction, evaluation and feedback, and arrives at results interpretatively.

Risks to the Public

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Peter G. Neumann
Keyword(s):  
Computer Systems ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Security And Reliability

Mini-editorial (PGN) 2020 was a crazy year, with all kinds of risks on display. As usual, many of the lessons noted in past issues of SEN and RISKS have been largely ignored, and failures continue to mirror events from the past that have long been discussed here. Issues such as safety, security, and reliability always seem to need more foresight than they receive. Y2K con- tinues to hit somewhere each New Year's Day, when short- term remediations that demanded periodic upgrading have been forgotten. (I suppose old COBOL code will still ex- ist in year 2100, when there may be ambiguities relating to dates that could be 21xx or 20xx (although 19xx is unlikely), and the narrow windowing xes will fail even more dramati- cally.) Election integrity continues to be a real concern, where we are caught in the crosshairs between computer systems and networks that are not meaningfully trustworthy or au- ditable, and the nontechnological risks are still pervasive from unbalanced redistricting, creative dysinformation, poli- tics, Citzens United, and foreign interference. We need non- partisan scrutiny and defense against would-be subverters to overcome potential attacks and inadvertent mistakes. In pres- ence of potential risks in every part of the process, a strong sense of risk-awareness is required by voters, election officials, and the media (both proactively and remedially, as needed).

scholarly journals Production Engineering Education in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sushant Khare ◽  
Shrish Bajpai ◽  
P.K. Bharati
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Private Institutions ◽  
Production Engineering ◽  
Educational Structure ◽  
Simulation Tools ◽  
Education In India ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Clear Idea ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Present paper deals with the field of Production Engineering specifically its standard of education in India. This discipline of engineering focuses on the capability of an engineer not just as a technician but also as a manager. As a result industry is also favoring the development of this field. This paper reviews the educational structure followed in India for engineering education. It aims to give a clear idea of standard of this discipline's courses being run in India at different levels of engineering, considering both centrally funded and private institutions. It also covers the necessary simulation tools used to train the students during these courses and inspects over available web-resources related to the subject. In the epilogue it discusses the future prospects for this field's development as a discipline and concludes with a brief comparison of India's status from other regions of world. In the end we have made some suggestions to decision-makers based on our findings to improve the existing model.

scholarly journals Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! Moving from European Discourses on the Precarious and Art to the Realities of Contemporary Dance

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-146
Author(s):  
Annelies Van Assche ◽  
Katharina Pewny ◽  
Rudi Laermans
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Precarious Work ◽  
The Media ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Different Levels

In this article, we encapsulate several key debates in sociology, cultural and arts politics and the media industry on precarious work since its emergence at the turn of the twenty-first century. After setting out the fundamental discourses on precarity, we concentrate on contemporary dance artists as precarious workers and investigate the extent to which different levels of precarity affect them, distinguishing relevant aspects related to socio-economic, mental and physical precarity. We propose that the nature of their work is integrally connected with the ‘precarious’. To close, we conclude that protest against precarity itself is of a precarious nature.

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENTOF NATIONAL JOURNALISM EDUCATION SYSTEM IN UZBEKISTAN

2019 ◽  
pp. 204-214
Author(s):  
Azamjon DADAKHONOV
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
High Quality ◽  
The Past ◽  
Educational Literature ◽  
The Media ◽  
Training Professional ◽  
State Language

The article discusses the problem of the formation of a modern model of journalistic education in Uzbekistan, the particularities of training specialists in demand on the labor market, the need for professionals with experience in convergent editions, and the production of high-quality media content is determined. The evolution of the model of education in Uzbekistan in recent years is being traced and a new model of training professional media workers is being introduced, which is already adhered to by the country's universities. Over the past two decades, journalism education systems have further developed journalism retraining courses, trainings and seminars for practicing media professionals. There are new opportunities for admission to the master’s degree of specialists with other higher education. The positive shift in the development of journalism education over the past three to four years has been the widespread involvement of practicing journalists in the staff of the faculty. According to the researcher, despite the rapid development of journalism education in Uzbekistan, there are a number of problems that need to be addressed. These include, for example, the lack of teachers with practical experience in the media, and the lack of educational literature in the state language.

Accreditation and Assessment of Journalism Education in Europe

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media

How is journalism training in Europe accredited and assessed? State organisations and the media industry influence the objectives, content and structures of such training through their accreditation. They set quality standards and, at the same time, interfere in its autonomy. Through studies of twelve countries, this volume shows how accreditation influences journalism training in Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Russia, Georgia, France, Spain, Hungary and Romania. The second part of the book provides a comparative analysis of these studies, deals with the ACEJMC’s more than seventy years of experience in journalism studies accreditation in the USA and shows how the interdisciplinary accreditation of journalism study programmes is organised in Europe. The editor is a professor of journalism at Jade Hochschule in Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her research focuses on journalism education and media freedom.

scholarly journals Competency-based approach to journalism education: Western experience and Ukrainian practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
M. Butyrina
Keyword(s):  
Professional Competence ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Target Function ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
The Media

In the article a competency-based approach to journalism education in the context of journalism transformation is presented. Digitization of the media industry, convergence of the functions and tasks in the field of communicative professions, intensification of media influences and media effects caused the need for journalism education revision. The appeal to competency as a basic term of the theory of education made it possible to update that set of knowledge, skills, professional qualities and values that make up the basic model of the journalistic profession. According to Z. Weischenberg’s classical model, journalism competency as a target function of journalism education has complex architectonics and integrates four components: professional competence, communication competence, special / industrial knowledge and social orientation. Each of the core competencies is transformed under the influence of new conditions of the profession realization, their relative importance changes. Thus, instrumental skills are changing under the influence of participatory journalism models. Participatory journalism requires a completely different content production algorithm. It requires the skills of information verification, interaction with amateur contributors and officials, involved in the process of solution of problems of different scales and directions, communication with an active audience, which is driven by an increased feedback factor in communication. At the same time, the knowledge segment of journalism competency becomes more important in connection with the emergence of a whole block of media-oriented disciplines: media psychology, media economics, media law, etc. The analytical component of the journalistic profession, caused by new information inquiries and the needs of the society, is increasing. The need for media marketing knowledge, which is gaining new sense and guidance as a result of the transition of the media to the digital platform, is being updated. Proactive competencies that allow journalists to continuously adapt to changes in the media industry also become a significant component of the competency model.

scholarly journals Fact-Checking and Information Verification in the Context of Journalism Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-108
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Shesterkina ◽  
Lidiya Lobodenko ◽  
Anna Krasavina ◽  
Arina Marfitsyna
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Database ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Information Verification ◽  
Fact Checking ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
Media Market

The article, being a part of a major study into fake news phenomenon, fact checking and information verification, analyzes the issues related to journalism education in the context of the increasing amount of fake news. The topicality of the study is determined by the fact that journalism education is failing to comply with the ever-changing requirements of the mass media market. Moreover, in the current era of information wars, post-truth, and social media regarded as sources of news, teaching future journalists to check facts and verify information is one of the primary demands of the mass media market. The study involved interviewing lecturers, students and specialists in media industry; the original results of the study add to its scientific novelty. The authors aimed at searching for cutting-edge practices to train skills of fact checking and verification. The results of the study indicate the necessity of introducing these practices into the academic process of training journalists, contribute to the research database in the field of journalism and the education, and provide for bridging the gap between universities and the media in terms of professional requirements for journalists.

scholarly journals Algorithmic Journalism—Current Applications and Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-257
Author(s):  
Efthimis Kotenidis ◽  
Andreas Veglis
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
News Industry ◽  
The Media ◽  
Opening Up

Journalism, more so than other professions, is entangled with technology in a unique and profoundly impactful way. In this context, the technological developments of the past decades have fundamentally impacted the journalistic profession in more ways than one, opening up new possibilities and simultaneously creating a number of concerns for people working in the media industry. The changes that were brought about by the rise of automation and algorithmic technology can mainly be observed in four distinct fields of application within journalism: automated content production, data mining, news dissemination and content optimization. This article focuses on algorithmic journalism and aims to highlight the ways that algorithmic technology is being utilized within those fields, as well as pointing out the ways in which these developments have altered the way journalism is being exercised in the modern world. The study also discusses challenges related to these technologies that are yet to be addressed, as well as potential future implementations related to algorithmic journalism that have the capacity to improve on the foundation of automation in the news industry.

The Australian's Media Supplement: A Lapdog, a Watchdog, an Attack Dog or All of the Above?

2015 ◽  
Vol 157 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Dodd ◽  
Matthew Ricketson
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Media Industry ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Past ◽  
Advertising Revenue ◽  
The Media

The modern news media comprise powerful institutions that require the kind of scrutiny they direct towards other influential institutions. The 50th anniversary of The Australian offers a timely opportunity to examine how fairly and accurately the national daily newspaper has reported on its parent company's strengths and weaknesses, and those of its commercial rivals, as well as covering overall trends in the media industry. The article argues that when The Australian's Media section began in 1999, it substantially expanded for readers the available range of news and views about the media. However, the section never reached its advertising revenue targets and in recent years has lost much of the revenue it once had. Over the past decade, the section has become increasingly narrow-minded in the range of its coverage, tone and approach.

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