I heard the other day that some students of an institute walked out of their internship, because they were not given a job that was more to their liking. One of my favourite students (yup even a cynic like me has a few!) asked me how I would rate students of the institute she was [...]
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Internships – the 'Hamletian' dilemma
Posted: December 6, 2009 in internships, journalism, Mass CommunicationTags: Ishrat Jahan, Maharashtra Herald, Pratibha Patil
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Today’s budding journos – not curious enough
Posted: August 11, 2009 in Facebook, Mass CommunicationTags: Orkut
Curiosity, as the old saying goes, killed a cat. While not wishing anything as extreme on any student of media studies today, I will say that a lot of them, who are looking to enter the world of media, are not curious enough about anything. So what stops students from finding out more? When we [...]
Yes, I’m here too! Why ‘Been there done that’? Well I’ve led an interesting life – at least according to me! I’ve worked at various times in a library (as a schoolboy), a hotel (at the front office in my first real paying job!), with the print media (from copy editor to Chief Copy Editor, [...]
