RASHTRASANT TUKADOJI MAHARAJ NAGPUR UNIVERSITY

Training

TRAINING

The stress is on practical training. The students are required to produce news reports, interviews, features and articles on a variety of subjects. They are also required to make newspaper pages and produce video and audio news bulletins and documentaries.  Besides, the students learn to conceive and prepare print advertisements and various forms of Public Relations literature.

Other than all the practical assignments given throughout the year by the concerned faculty, the students undergo a minimum 30 days of internship at newspapers, news agencies, TV news channels, advertising agencies and public relations firms or departments.

The students also produce a tabloid news bulletin called ‘Campus’ each year.

The Department holds specialized workshops by outside experts to provide hands-on training in areas such as page-making, ad-making, video editing, television production and social media/ digital promotion.

The students are regularly taken out for learning visits. The places visited range from printing presses and TV studios to the Maharashtra Legislature, FM radio stations, advertising agencies, public relations departments and other related institutions.

 

Industry-Institute Interaction

• The Department has initiated various initiatives to strengthen interaction with the Industry.
• An Industry-Institute Interaction Cell has been set up under the umbrella of the Department’s Media Club.
• The visiting faculty is drawn from the mass media and related industries and professions.
• Experts from the industry are regularly invited for Guest Lectures, Seminars and Workshops.
• From the time to time, the Department partners with media agencies and other organisations in areas like reporting during special events and public relations activities.

 

Industry Internship

 

The B.J. and M.A. (Mass Communication) students undergo a compulsory Internship/ Attachment  Programme wherein they are placed in leading media organizations and assigned various tasks related to the functioning of the mass media.

The students are required to compile a file of all their work, including published reports, pages made, copies edited, reports broadcast, etc.

The P.G.Diploma in Video Programming students are attached for various periods to Doordarshan, Zee News, ABP News, UCN, In-BCN and AIR or to the local correspondents of private national and regional news channels for hands-on training.

Students have been placed for Internship Programmes in the following organizations:

 

 

·         The Hitavada

·         The Times of India

·         Tarun Bharat

·         Sakal

·         Lokmat Samachar

·         Lokmat

·         Loksatta

·         Dainik Bhaskar

·         Deshonnati

·         Lokshahi Vaarta

·         Maharashtra Today

·         All India Radio

·         UCN cable TV news

·         InCable New Network

·         BCN News Network

·         Western Coalfield Ltd. (WCL)

·         Nagpur Metro

·         OCW

·         Directorate of I & PR, Govt. of Maharashtra

·         Profit Advertisers

·         Design Studio

·         MOIL

·         RS Brand Garage

·         Indian Oil Corporation Ltd., Bhagalpur.

·         The Live Nagpur

·         Power of One,

·         Top New Marathi, Pune

·         24 Arc Media LLP, Pune

·         S A Digital Films Pvt. Ltd.

·         Radon Media, Pune

·         Oysterz Entertainment Pvt Ltd, Pune

·         Abhijeet Bharat

·         Gargi Advertising, Pune, etc.

 

The students receive certificates from the media organizations after completion of the Internship Programme.