THE READING ROOM

This blog is primarily for media aspirants as well as young journalists. My aim is to provide links to articles that will enhance their understanding of the media and help them to improve their writing skills, broaden their horizons, and expand their worldview. My hope is that The Reading Room will also help them to become good media professionals.

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Showing posts with label Learning from Commitscions. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2016

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MEDIA PLANNER (THANK YOU, COMMITS!)

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Poorvi Kothari (Class of 2014) wrote this piece for The Commits Chronicle in June 2016: Before I joined Commits I had no idea that a role...

Tuesday, March 15, 2016

When Commitscion Prema Sridevi's Times Now story became the talk of Parliament

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Prema Sridevi (Class of 2005) interviews the former Home Secretary ... ...and the next day the story is brought up in Parliam...

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Once a journalist, always a journalist

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Commits alumnus Ayushman Baruah (Class of 2008) on why, after a brief stint as a corporate communications professional, he has returned to h...

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Golden words of advice for journalism students

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Earlier this month Commits student Sudeshna Dutta (Class of 2017) began publishing her blog, Journalism 101. Her first post is titled ...

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Barkha Dutt's This Unquiet Land: Such an important book...

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...especially for media students, and especially for those who want to become television journalists. When I brought a copy to the college...

Thursday, January 28, 2016

"Why I chose to be a digital marketing professional..."

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Niranjana Muraleedharan (Class of 2014) wrote this piece for The Commits Chronicle in June 2104: Yes, my Facebook page is always open, as...

Monday, January 25, 2016

How to be a success as a freelance production professional

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SAAKSHA BHANDARY Saaksha Bhandary (Commits Class of 2012), a production professional based in Mumbai, was most recently Associate Creati...

Monday, October 20, 2014

How to get story ideas

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If you have a nose for news and if you know where to look, it's easy to come up with story ideas. Here's just one example. I saw a...

Friday, August 29, 2014

The boldest articulation I have read of what it means to be a woman in India

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Read this powerful lead story in the college newspaper by Commitscion Devika Premlal (Class of 2015) here . This comment, from John Th...

Monday, July 21, 2014

Do today's journalists face more risks than the journalists of, say, 20 years ago?

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The answer, going by what Commits alumni have to say, is a loud NO. But to go back to the beginning... On Saturday, July 12, I sent out ...

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Ramesh Prabhu: Bangalore, Karnataka; I have more than 20 years' experience (1981 to 2003) as a journalist in India and Dubai, specializing in selecting and editing news reports and features. From 2003 to 2019, I taught journalism and writing skills to master’s students at Commits, a media college in Bangalore. I joined Cactus Communications ("Serving Science Worldwide") as a copyediting freelancer on October 1, 2019. From the very beginning, I have enjoyed the challenge of working on a new assignment each day. I like to think of every article as a daily crossword puzzle that I need to solve by examining the clues closely. And, finally, when I submit the article that I have tended, I like to think, with love and care, I feel deeply satisfied.

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