announced India’s first teaching programme in Citizen Journalism. The
ten-session module, across two months, will begin on August 1, 2010. Minimum
requirement is basic language skills in any Indian language. Age is not a
bar. 15 students would be admitted in each batch.
It is a certificate programme and will be conducted every weekend, which
would enable working professionals to participate as well. It will be
mandatory to attend the lectures.
Eminent experts from the fields of policing, law, civic issues, Right to
Information and technology would be engaged in the teaching programme.
JM Foundation, which was set up by senior journalists Shishir Joshi and Dr
Aloke Thakore, is also known for Journalism Mentor,
programme for Journalism, which was launched in 2009.
Basic Details:
Duration: Every Saturday for Ten weeks starting August 1, 2010.
Timing from 12 noon to 3 pm.
Fees Rs 3000 (three thousand only)
Fees to be payable in demand draft to “JM Foundation for excellence in Journalism”
Along with CV the package should be couriered or delivered to the foundation office
302, Shubham Centre
Cardinal Gracias Road
Near P and G Plaza
Chakala,
Andheri east
Mumbai 99
Last Date: July 15
Total seats: 15
Citizen Journalism:
The two month ten sessions Course is designed as a weekend programme. It
will be conducted at the Journalism Mentor Centre at Andheri East every
Saturday morning.
Course details:
Some of the key areas include Citizen journalism backgrounder and how it is
practiced globally, basics of reporting, news gathering, presenting the
story through words and pictures, ethics including accuracy and fairness,
laws including slander, libel, introduction to IPC and Criminal Procedure
Code, civic laws and use of technology in Citizen Journalism.
Use of technology and cameras would also be taught.
Support:
Every student will be provided an email id and their work will be put on a
portal dedicated to citizen journalism called CitizensReport.in
Eligibility:
Anyone interested in doing citizen journalism. Basic language skills needed.
“We are launching the citizen journalism programme in Mumbai and we will be
taking this programme to empower citizens to various cities across India,”
said Shishir Joshi.
Dr Aloke Thakore said, “The history of citizen journalism goes back to the
pamphleteers, Tom Paine and Federalist Papers, and also the leaders of the
freedom struggle in India. Technology has made dissemination relatively easy
for citizen journalism. The crisis of public discourse on many of the issues
facing the country begs for a revitalizing of this form of journalism.”
The JM Foundation is a not-for-profit body, engaged in the field of
Journalism Education, Research and Archiving.
Fee: Rs. 3000. Includes reading material, year-long access to email
firstname.lastname@citizenjournalists.in and posting privileges to
http://www.CitizensReport.in, the Citizens Reporting portal being launched by JM
Foundation for Excellence in Journalism.
Contact: Shishir Joshi/Aloke Thakore atshishirj@journalism.org.in and
aloket@journalism.org.in Register interest by emailing
About Citizen Journalism:
Citizen Journalism with its variants in Public Journalism or Civic
Journalism acquired the accoutrements of a movement in the early 2000s,
particularly in the United States. But the origins of Citizen Journalism are
as old as journalism, when pamphlets and reports were issued by citizens.
Some of the most powerful pieces of journalistic writing can be traced back
to individual initiatives of citizens as reporters not reporters as
professionals.
The need for citizens as journalists and for citizen journalists has been
increasingly felt as media companies with their business and professional
news gathering models do not necessarily commit enough resources to covering
issues that beset a democracy such as ours or do not have any incentive to
cover problems from a wide swathe of society. But not covering these
problems and issues does not wish away the reality. And that is precisely
where citizen journalists can reclaim the conversation. It needs to be
remembered that the freedom of the press in India is an extension of the
freedom of expression given to each citizen.
JM Foundation for Excellence in Journalism believes that India needs
vigorous citizen journalism since it is well nigh impossible, for various
reasons, for the news media organizations to cover all issues that need to
be brought into the public eye. Hence, we have launched a Citizen Journalism
initiative, which will both train citizen journalists and also provide them
with a forum where they report.
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