ournalism is one of the few careers where one can feel the taste of freshness every day. Journalism and Print Media are the platform that give you the opportunity to meet newer people from different strata of the society. In this profession, you have the opportunity to meet Celebrity, Models, Politicians, Ministers, High profile officers, criminals, etc. Journalism is the demanding job that needs dedication, devotion and determination.
It requires lost of efforts from the candidate side to bring qualitative change in the society.
It has vast job opportunity for the deserve candidate. If you know the nuances and finer aspect of journalism, money is not the criteria for you. You should have to be the qualities of accuracy, brevity and clarity and ready to face the tougher deadlines.
Editing
The main job of the editor is to refine and filtrate the matter whatever they get from the reporters, as per the policy of the respective newspapers. Editing the story, formatting, re-formatting, doubts clarifications, errors in the text are some of the aspects that they have to handle judiciously.
Reporting
Reporting is another challenging job in Newspapers, Magazines, TV channels, Tabloids, etc. The reporters cover story from local to international events.
Writing Columns
A Columns in Newspaper is written by eminent Journalists, Writers, Academicians. The column can be written on any important topic. The writer depicts the story through different angles.
Cartoonist
This is another challenging area in Print media. A cartoonist has the ability to portray a meaningful message through his/her cartoon.
Photojournalist
Now a days, photographs are taking the space of writing. Lots of matter can be essayed through single photographs. The photojournalist has its own significance in print media.
Nature of the Job
Initially, the fresh passed out are hired as trainees after that they are promoted for different higher jobs like reporter senior reporter, chief reporter and special correspondent.
Print Media and Journalism Courses
For print media studies, there are Graduates, Post graduate and Ph.D. courses are available. Universities are also offering PG Diploma course in print media. Now, the question is raised here where to study? More or less, all the university offer Graduates and Post graduate print media courses both in Hindi and English. Some courses such as page composition, layout designing, photo journalism, artist, cartoon making, etc. are also offered.
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