Front Page of Renowned newspapers

See the Z-pattern of news placement

or are there any experiments?

Locate the Point of Dominance

Do we actually view the C-pattern of newspapers followed in US?

Mass Communication: Lab description

2016-2017 SESSION

Journalism and Mass Communication lAB

A production-oriented course demands emphasis on lab and field work. Considering the requirement there are ten labs each, along with one minor project in first, second and third semesters. The labs in first semester will introduce the students to basics of feature/article writing. A spectrum of themes from wellness to community development will be picked up. Some communication models will be taken and replicated in te classroom/lab. Another fascinating inclusion needing to be intensively dealt with will be designing of electoral campaigns. Students will next design a tabloid getting hands-on experience in news writing and layout and design of newspapers. Case studies mapping trajectory of development of known media house will be taken. As a minor project, Cartoon strips will be developed on social issues and these will be guided by precedents in form of oeuvre of RK Laxman and other famous cartoonists of national and international repute. The second semester will have emphasis on the art, craft and technique of photography wherein different shooting exercises will be carried out with students. A printed or e-book of the students’ portfolio will be released with apt captions. Drafting brochures, magazines and press releases will be other important exercises. By this time, the students would have floated their blog (that may be turned into a website on maturity). For this, the university is ambitious to make provisions that will include hands-on training on Quark Xpress, Coral Draw, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Next, a short documentary with some hard and soft news or with thematic cogency will be collectively produced by the students. For this, a provision for Mac editing system, DSLR camera and video camera has been made. The third semester aims to equip students to cover events related to science and technology. They should be able to report about new discoveries, inventions and breakthroughs in lucid terms for laymen and science enthusiasts. The students should be able to create popularity for science through their features and articles. Their reports should be able to convey the significance of science programmes and even natural occurrences in simple and accessible language that is reader friendly. Create a science magazine focusing on new discoveries, innovations and regulations related to scientific transactions. The minor project, now, will stress guiding students towards presenting a street theatre performance. Identifying suitable topic and issue and using theatre as a mode of communication and instrumental in behavioural change. The fourth semester will have a major project under the guidance of the supervisor to prepare a dissertation on any subject chosen which lies in the domain of communication and media. In this paper we have to come up with an outcome through research project building upon the lessons learnt in the communication research and methodology paper that would have already exposed them to the process of research. The lab facility may be used as and when required on availability. An attempt will be made to straddle the territories of both Hindi and English journalism.

Magazine covers: Do magazines have a personality?

Scan through the cover pages and find out for yourselves:

Note your Observations:

For instance. do you see a cover that focuses on personalities or issues?

Are the concerns reflected on the cover?

Do you see how National Geographic and Lonely Planet use colour?

There is a surfeit of shades of blue in lonely planet lending it freshness while nat geo uses a yellow triangle to make the reader instantly identify the magazine as its production!

Are there puns on words and amusing takes on situations in introductory caption?

Is the cover centred on a humorous cartoon?

Do the covers look science and development centred?

Do they look realistic or exotic or ethereal?

Are the covers a reflection of international situation?

Are the takes satirical?

How is humour, colour, caricature used on the cover pages?

Also find out your favourite....

Wonder what happened to good sports magazines?

A brief on a few eminent Indian journalists

Renowned Indian Journalists: brief

Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist. He was best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily cartoon strip, "You Said It" in The Times of India, which started in 1951.

Palagummi Sainath (born 1957) is an Indian journalist and photojournalist who focuses on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermath of globalization in India. He was the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu before resigning in 2014, and the website India Together has been archiving some of his work in The Hindu daily.He is also the founding editor of the People's Archive of Rural India.

. His book Everybody Loves a Good Drought equates drought with 'teesra phasal' or third crop that is enjoyed by the machinery that finds compensation cheaper than development.

Bal Keshav Thackeray was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western state of Maharashtra.

Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human right activist and author, noted for his long career as a left-wing political commentator. 

Madhav Vittal Kamath (7 September 1921 – 9 October 2014) was an Indian journalist and broadcasting executive, and the chairman of Prasar Bharati. He worked as the editor of The Sunday Times for two years from 1967 to 1969, and as Washington correspondent for The Times of India from 1969 to 1978. He also served as editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.

Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today and the chief executive of the India Today Group.

Prabhu Chawla born in Lahore, Punjab, British India in 1946. He is allumni of Deshbandhu college University of Delhi . He is the Editorial Director of The New Indian Express, a Chennai-based newspaper in India.

Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator, interviewer. He has interviewed world leaders and personalities in India and abroad, which appear in newspapers, magazines and on national channels.

Saeed Naqvi started his journalist career as Staff Reporter with The Statesman, Delhi in 1964, later he became editor of the Sunday Magazine. During this period, in spring of '68, when The Beatles visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, he famously sneaked in along with fellow photographer, Raghu Rai and they not only filed new reports, but also took photographs inside. His important books are:

·         Reflections of an Indian Muslim, Har-Anand Publications, 1993. ISBN 8124100217.

·         The Last Brahmin Prime Minister? Har-Anand Publications, 1996.

 Shekhar Gupta is an Indian journalist who is currently working with Business Standard and pens a weekly column "National Interest" which appears every Saturday. He was earlier the vice chairman of the India Today Group.

Dibang (दिबांग in Hindi), a senior journalist and member of a debate panel with the news channel ABP News, is rated among the best Hindi anchors in the industry today.^[1] He is also hosting Prime Time show "Jana Mana" on ABP News.

Ravish Kumar (born 5 December 1974) is an Indian TV anchor,^[2] writer and journalist who covers topics pertaining to Indian politics and society.^[3]He is the senior executive editor at NDTV India,^[4] the Hindi news channel of the NDTV news network and hosts a number of programmes including the channel's flagship weekday show Prime Time, Hum Log^[5] and Ravish Ki Report.^[6]

Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor and author. Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group and will be doing a marquee show for Headlines Today. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network, that includes CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat from where he left in July 2014. An important book he authored is Chunav Jisne Bharat Ko Badal Diya (Hindi Edition: 2014)

Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, news anchor and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.

Arnab Goswami is an Indian journalist who is the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now and ET Now. The Newshour, a live debate anchored by him, is aired at 9 pm weekdays on Times Now.

Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and columnist. She works as a consulting editor with NDTV. Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of the Kargil War. 

Mobashar Jawad "M.J." Akbar is the Minister of State for External Affairs, and a Member of Parliamentwhich is also known as Upper House from Madhaya Pradesh.He was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers by PM Narendra Modi on 5th July, 2016. His important books are: Nehru: the Making of India (1990) Riot After Riot (1991) Kashmir: Behind the Vale (1991) India: The Siege within - Challenges to a Nation's Unity (1996) The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity (2003) Byline (2004) Blood Brothers - A Family Saga (2006) Have Pen, Will Travel. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan(2011).

Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of ... From 1982 until 1992, Rai was the director of photography for India Today. ... the chemical disaster at Bhopal in 1984, which he covered as a journalist with India Today in 1984, and on its ongoing effects on the lives of gas victims.

Mario Miranda was born on 2nd May 1926. His cartoons famously depict vignettes of Goan village life. He died on 11th December 2011 in his ancestral house in Loutolim, Goa.

Source: collected from Wikipedia.