Course
Details of Ten Month (Four Semester) Professional Journalism
Training
The Course: With the rapid growth of
media industry in Nepal, the demand side for able talented professional
journalist is growing. However, due to the lack of educational
facilities, the supply side of well-trained journalist has not been to
keep with demand. Thus, Media Point hopes to ease this shortage by
conducting the professional journalism course.
The course is designed as per the requirement of the present market.
Thus more than 70 percent of the total course duration will be spent on
practical way of learning. The participants will be engaged more in
practical activities. However, the importance of theoretical knowledge
will not be undermined. Media Point, being the network of professional
media persons dedicated to both print and broadcast media. The course
will be interactive way of learning with the experience of the renowned
resource persons, which they have gathered for years. During the course
period there will be also well-known personalities is Nepalese media as
guest lecturers.
Division of Course
Total - 240 Working Days
Course Details
(Theory - T and Practical - P)
FIRST SEMESTER
Orientation to the
training (T)
General concept of
Communication (T)
Concept of Mass Media (T)
General Introduction
to Journalism (T)
A brief history of
World Journalism (T)
Nepalese Media - Past
and Present (T)
Terminology of
Journalism (T+P)
Press Law of Nepal (T)
Journalist Code of
Conduct (T)
Media Issues (T)
Human Rights and Media
(T)
Gender Issues in Media
(T)
Media Facilitation
Skills (P)
Language Skill
Improvement (T+P)
All aspects of the
News (T+P)
Translation for News
purpose (P)
Art of Editing and
Rewriting (T+P)
Team work in Media (T+P)
Layout/Design (P)
Internal Seminar (P)
Wall Magazine
Publication (P)
Media Trip (P)
Evaluation Test (T)
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SECOND SEMESTER
Reporter and Reporting
(T)
Concept of Beat
Reporting (T+P)
Political, Parliament,
Economic, Tourism, Environment, Disaster, Science and Technology,
Health, Sports, Entertainment, Crime etc.
Investigative
Reporting (T)
Five Field Reportings
(P)
Attending Press
Conference (T)
Role of Stringers (T)
Reporting from abroad
(T)
Media Presentation (P)
Wall Magazine
Publication (P)
Media Trip (P)
Evaluation Test (T)
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THIRD SEMESTER
Development Journalism
(T)
Rural Journalism (T)
Journalism for Children and by the Children (T)
Feature Writing (T+P)
Column Writing (T+P)
Editorial Writing (T+P)
Journalism for
Literature (T)
Art of Reviewing
Books, Art works, Cinema and Theatre (T+P)
Art of Interview (T+P)
Wall Magazine
Publication (P)
Concept of
Audio-visual Media (T)
Radio Journalism/Radio
News (T+P)
TV Journalism/TV News
(T)
Concept of Photo
Journalism (T+P)
Role of Cartoons in
Print Media (T)
Free Lancing
Journalism (T)
Concept of
Advertisement (T)
Public Relation (T)
Press Management (T)
General Introduction
to Modern Media (Internet, E-mail etc.) (T+P)
Media Presentation (P)
News Magazine
Publication (P)
Comprehensive
Examination (Final exam T+P)
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FOURTH SEMESTER
Two month Internship
course in mass media institution (P) |
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| Note : Ten month course has been stoped for some time.
Media Point
Institute of Professional Journalism
Kathmandu, Nepal
'Practical Course on Journalistic Writing'
(100 Sessions)
Course Outline
1. Basic concept of Mass Communication
(T)
2. Introduction to Journalism (T)
3. Terminology of Journalism (T/P)
4. Journalism Language (T/P)
5. All aspects of the News (T/P)
6. News Reporting (T/P)
7. News Rewriting and Translating (T/P)
8. News Editing (T/P)
9. Specific Reporting (T/P)
10. Editorial Writing (T/P)
11. Interview (T/P)
12. Feature Writing (T/P)
13. Column Writing (T/P)
14. Review Writing (T/P)
15. Writing for Audio/Visual Media (T/P)
16. Publicity Writing (T/P)
17. Photo Journalism (T/P)
18. Internal Seminar (P)
19. Paper Presentation (P)
20. In house Publication (P)
T = Theory
P = Practical
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