2 Year MA Degree: Audiovisual Communication / Marketing and Management Communication from Convergence Institute of Media
ASPIRING TO BE A COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL?
Commits is the place for you
2 Year MA Degree:
Audiovisual Communication
Marketing & Management Communication
COMMITS, ALL OF SEVEN YEARS OLD, IS TODAY AMONG THE top three choices in quality mass communication education for students in India. At Commits, which was set up in Bangalore in 2001 with the aim of bridging the academia-industry gap, the media courses are in sync with the needs of the industry. That is why every batch has been successfully placed in some of the best companies both in India and aboard. Today companies seek our students first and Commits has earned the ‘Most preferred media College’ tag, thanks to the alumni who are Brand Ambassadors. So much so that 100% placement has become routine at Commits.
At Commits, real world media education involves working on global communication projects, attending and presenting papers at international seminars, interacting with top industry professionals, and imbibing industry best practices,. Commits has strengthened its industry partnerships; it attracts top professionals form the fills, print, televisions and adverting industry who interact with the students every year through classroom lectures and seminars. The college performs consistently at several Awards, including the prestigious Dubai Ibda’s Media Students Awards.
Commits believes that education is an evolving process which has to be continually upgraded to cater to industry needs. As commits celebrates its seventh birthday, it time to celebrate their achievements.
So come to Commits and avail of the opportunity to qualify as a world-class media and communications professional.
Admission: Graduates in any discipline including final year students awaiting results can apply.
Application can be downloaded form www.commitsindia.com
Last Date for submitting application forms is March 10, 2008.
Selection based on written exam, group discussion and interview.
Exam date: March 16, 2008
Exam center: Commits, Tavarekere Main Road, Bangalore.
Highlights of 2007-2008: Highest entry-level salary of Rs.5 lakhs per annum, Noted media critic and author Sevanti Ninan visits Commits, Chak De! India director Shimit Amin is keynote speaker at Commits seminar in January 2008, Sponsored trip to Portugal for Global communications Conferences. International authour and journalist Shrabani Basu visits Commits, and Commitscion Nilofer D’Souza was CNN-IBN’s Citizen Journalist in Bangalore.
Placements: CNN, Discovery, ESPN, Qatar Tribune, Emirates Business 24x7, Radio One, SAP, Sun Microsystems, i-Flex, CNBC, NDTV, Times Now, CNN-IBN, TV-9, JWT, O&M, Saatchi & Saatchi, The Economic Times, Mudra, ANZ, Mid-Day, Rediffusion, The Times of India.
Commits follows a transparent admission process. There are no quotas and all seats are filled only on first-come-first-serve basis and solely on merit.
Who can apply: Graduates from any university in any discipline with a degree recognised in India . Final year students awaiting results are also eligible to apply.
How to apply: The application form can be downloaded from the admissions page at www.commitsindia.com, completed and sent with a demand draft of Rs.850 (drawn in favour of 'Commits', and payable at Bangalore ) to:
The Admissions Coordinator
Commits, #7, IV Main, Tavarekere Main Road , Bangalore 560029, Karnataka , India
Tel: 080 41114010 / 41114470, Tele-fax: 080 25530923, Email: commits@gmail.com
Selection Process:
Step I: Download Application Form
Step II: Complete Application Form in student's own handwriting
Step III: Mail Application Form to Admissions Coordinator with DD for Rs.850
Step IV: Scrutiny and shortlisting of candidates
Step V: Shortlisted candidates to appear for Written Examination
Step VI: Group Discussion and Interview
Step VII: Selected candidates will be informed by e-mail/post
Step VIII: Student to pay non-refundable admission fees of Rs.25,000 if he/she accepts the seat
Step IX: Student to pay the balance fee amount of Rs.80,000 and confirm admission
Step X: Students report at the institute and classes begin on June 30, 2008.
For students applying under NRI quota: The student applying under the NRI quota should mention 'NRI quota' on the application form and send it with an application fee of US$50. There will be no entrance examination or group discussion for students applying under the NRI quota. They have to appear for an interview with the dean and faculty.
Fees: Fees under Regular Quota will be Rs.1,05,000 (excluding laptop, camera, hostel and mess charges), Fees under NRI quota will be US$5,000 per year (excluding laptop, camera, hostel and mess charges)
Last Date: Last date for submission of application forms under general quota: March 10, 2008 (Bangalore), March 20, 2008 (Kolkata) , Last date for submission of application forms under NRI quota: June 1, 2008
Entrance Examination: Entrance exam and group discussion in Bangalore on March 16, 2008; Interview (outstation students) - March 16; Interview (Bangalore students) - March 17 & 18.
>All admission-related correspondence should be addressed to the Dean of Studies, Commits.>Mention application form number in all your subsequent correspondence. >Any change in contact details should be informed to us immediately.>In all matters regarding admission to the course, the decision of the institute will be final and binding on the applicant. >No correspondence from the applicant with respect to non-selection will be entertained.>Completed application form along with crossed demand draft of Rs.850 (Rupees Eight Hundred and Fifty Only) favouring Commits, Bangalore, should reach The Dean, Commits,#7, IV Main, Tavarekere Main Road, Bangalore 560029.
Campus: Convergence Institute of Media, Management and Information Technology Studies
#7, IV Main, Tavarekere Main Road, Bangalore 560029, Karnataka, India
Tel-fax: 91-80-2553-0923 / 4111-4010 / 4111-4470
Email: commits@gmail.com, URL: www.commitsindia.com
University: Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication
PO Box RSN-560, Trilochan Singh Nagar, Shahpura, Bhopal-462016, Madhya Pradesh, India
Tel: 91-755-2725307, Fax: 91-755-2561970
Email: query@mcu.ac.in, URL: www.mcu.ac.in
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
Rashtriya Patrakarita Evam Sanchar Vishwavidyalaya
(Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication)
[Established by Act No.15.1990 of M.P. Legislature)
Monday, January 28, 2008
Convergence Institute of Media
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Sensationalism in Journalism
One among the top ranking universities in India today, BITS Pilani (Birla Institute of Technology and Science) is located in Vidya Vihar Nagar Palika which is one of the 13 Nagar Palikas in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan. Sizeable population in Vidya Vihar Nagar Palika is made of students who come from the length and breadth of the country to study in BITS and other educational institutions including various schools at Pilani.
As per 2001 census, total population of Vidya Vihar Pilani is 14366 out of which 11727 are literates working out to a literacy rate of 81.63 percent as compared to national average of 65.38. The total number of children in the 0-6 age group is 1310 out of which 700 are males and 610 are females working out to a Child Sex ratio (CSR) 871:1000 as compared to the national average of 927. CSR is number of female children in the age group of 0-6 years per 1,000 male children.
Dated 16 March 2008, in one of India’s National Newspaper with circulation in millions, a news item The Hindu : Magazine / Columns : Grim Realities it is stated that Pilani the town which is home to the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) has a literacy rate of 97 percent and a child sex ratio of 327:1000! and draws a conclusion that the more educated and well off you are, the more you are likely to subscribe to foeticide. The exclamation mark seems to be intentionally put in the referred news to depict the gravity of the situation to ensure that crude sensationalism took precedence over responsible journalism. Several alumni of the Institute have expressed serious concern about how the CSR figure of 327 was arrived at.
Emails to the Central Government Ministry of Women and Child Development at Delhi as well as Rajasthan State Government officials at Jaipur regarding the CSR value of 327 as reported in the media for Pilani brought no response.
If it was written by some fly by night journalist in a stay in shelf newspaper no one would have cared. The article has been written in a column titled Media Matters in a newspaper of esteem by none other than a lady journalist and author of repute as well as respect Sevanti Ninan who also happens to be the Honorary Secretary for the media watch website, The Hoot which is an Internet forum to discuss media practice and media ethics. In the referred news, she had quoted one Mr Rajan Choudhary who heads the NGO Shikshit Rojgar Kendra Parbandhak (SRKPS) at Jhunjhunu which is forty kms from Pilani.
A telecon with Mr Rajan Choudhary revealed that since he had never visited Vidya Vihar, he was not aware that several wards in Vidya Vihar Nagar Palika included hostels for the students.
Today in journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. In this age where old news is cold news, priority is to get it first from anywhere to everywhere and from anyone to everyone rather than get it right. No wonder Peter Mcwilliams said that the news media are, for the most part, the bringers of bad news and it's not entirely the media's fault as bad news gets higher ratings and sells more papers than good news. The current state of news media must take the blame for public’s general lack of information which is vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy.
With potential to make the right wrong and wrong the right, media is the most powerful entity on earth as they control the minds of the masses. But media should remember that there is an age old saying that Sun, Moon and Truth are the three things that cannot be hidden for too long.
The media fancies in the news if it makes a good story, without much regard for the factual accuracy and ensures that truth is lost in semantics and theatrics. Today’s jaundiced journalism finds fertile ground in would-be journalists whose motives have little to do with social conscience, disclosure of injustice, uncovering wrongdoing or giving voice to the voiceless.
Despite repeated attempts, Sevanti Ninan has not found the time to clarify which only reinforces the quote of Graham Greene that Media is a word which has come to mean bad journalism.
After all today journalism largely consists of saying that Johnny is dead to people who never knew that Johnny was alive.
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