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TV Journalism, News Reading and AnchoringCenter for Research in Art of Film and Television (CRAFT) offers a course in TV Journalism, News Reading and Anchoring. The course is designed and modified with the view of providing students insights of media world. Film and television are inseparable parts of our lives. Today, television has become most powerful mass media. Radio stations are also back with a bang. Therefore, TV journalism, News Reading and Anchoring are lucrative job options. The emergence of electronic journalism in India has maximized the job opportunities. The media industry needs expert professionals to serve their purpose. Thus, CRAFT offers an authentic course in television journalism, news reading and anchoring. All these are relatively important to get into the media industry. Television journalism has become so strong that it has created its own stars such as Rajdeep Sardesai, Rajat Sharma, Barkha Dutt and others have made their firm place in the industry. The responsibility of news anchor is to examine, introduce videotaped news, interpret news stories and live transmission from on-the-scene reporters. Newscasters at big stations and networks more often than not specialized in a particular type of news like weather and sports. News reporter's responsibility includes:
Reporters collect information or write stories using advanced technology like laptop computers and electronically submit the collected material to their respective office from remote locations. Sometimes, news writer writes a story from information gathered and submitted by reporters. A reporter has to write a script for news that is possibly touching the lives of a number of people by means of radio and television. Television and radio reporters frequently compose stories and report live from the scene. Sometimes, they compose commentary on his/her story in the studio. Some of the reporters specialize in dominion such as business, science, religion, etc. The task of investigate reporters is to cover stories that can take days, weeks, months for gathering information. Some of the television channels employ a team of reporters rather than assigning each reporter a particular topic. These reporters work together to cover specific event. A news team may comprise of editors, reporters, graphic artists, etc. working together to execute given task. This specialization course lessens student's fear of facing camera, enhance their talent, and fine-tune their speech for television journalism. Students are given practical exercises in micro specialized fields in news journalism like promo producing and promo writing for news. The course equips students with a solid grounding on all elements of studio and production skills. The film school organizes practical training sessions to reinforce student's skills for collecting news for radio. Students are accustomed to newsroom routines and procedures. CRAFT facilitates students producing natural voice effectively rather than change voice or accents. Students are equipped with practical sessions where they execute their task in digital studios. The studio equips analogue facilities, news booth, control room, drama studios, commercial production, etc. The course syllabus is designed with the help of working professionals. The course curriculum incorporates various modules such as news presenter-editor, news reporter, feature production, introduction to reporting, etc.
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