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A Postgraduate Diploma for students with a Bachelors degree.

A Diploma program for students who have completed pre-university or Standard 12.

In addition, selected number of i-Learning courses will be offered soon in association with BBC for distance (correspondence) learners.  These courses require using modules offered through the Internet. For further description, please see below at the bottom of this page.

Both the diploma programs consist of core courses including advanced seminars, electives, media workshops and a master's thesis project. Depending on the type of diploma program, the requirements vary. These courses are offered in two semesters: July-December and January-June.

IIJNM offers concentrations in Television journalism, Radio journalism, Newspaper journalism, Magazine journalism and New Media (Web) journalism. Television and Radio students produce both television and radio programs as part of their Broadcast curriculum, with special focus on their area of interest – TV or radio. Print and New Media students are required to cover both areas, with special focus on newspaper, magazine or web journalism, respectively.

Students concentrating in newspaper journalism must take the workshop that requires producing an in-house newspaper. Magazine journalism students produce a monthly magazine. New Media students produce a weekly on-line publication. Broadcast students may produce both TV and radio news segments and documentaries, depending on their particular area(s) of interest.

Core courses introduce students to reporting and writing, and provide a foundation from which much of the subsequent program work is done. The emphasis is on developing their reporting and writing skills. Students also learn the techniques and tools available to them, and understand the ethical and legal issues involved in professional journalism.

Advanced area seminars emphasize selected major areas of journalism, namely, national political reporting, international news coverage, business and financial reporting, and developmental journalism. Advanced concentration seminars provide further skills in the chosen concentration — Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine or New Media.

Elective courses allow students to specialize in one or more subject areas such as political reporting, international news coverage, investigative reporting, business reporting, digital photo journalism and others.

Media workshops are in Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine and New Media. Each student is required to pick one specialty. In the Television workshop students plan and produce television programs including news bulletins and documentaries on various topics. Similarly in the Radio workshop students work with sound and learn to produce different kinds of radio programs. In the Newspaper workshop, students plan and write a newspaper several times during the semester on politics, crime, health, society and other topics. Magazine workshop requires publishing a monthly magazine. Students learn how to interview, write and edit. New Media workshop builds on the course on New Media tools, and students learn to apply these techniques to traditional story-telling elements. New Media workshop requires publishing both a newspaper and an on-line magazine several times during the semester.

In its scope and duration, the master's thesis project is the postgraduate student's major effort of the year, an in-depth exploration of a topic as a journalist would pursue it. The master's thesis project may be executed in Television, Radio, Print or New Media. Each student is assigned an adviser who helps select a topic and provides guidance in focusing the project, conducting the research, and reporting, organizing and writing. The master's thesis project is intended to demonstrate students' ability to conduct and sustain research over several months, their ability to gather and organize large amounts of material, and their capacity to present that material clearly and accurately.

Further note on i-Learning Program:

The i-Learning project is aimed at facilitating professional development in the Indian media by offering online learning courses and interactive forums. It is designed for working journalists and media managers for improving their skills at their pace. Training will cover courses offered through the diploma programs, with in-class practical training through on-site workshops.

The Indian Institute for Journalism & New Media (IIJNM) is one of two institutions in India selected by the British Broadcasting Corporation (other being the Indian Institute for Mass Communications) for i-Learning. By the end of the project, these partners will have gained both the skills and the tools (including local ownership of the BBC’s online learning system, iLearn) to run blending learning programmes of their own.

The Indian Institute for Journalism & New Media will offer the iLearn blended learning experience to newspaper and Internet journalists. IIJNM trainers will work in close partnership with specialists from the Danish School of Journalism. The centre will also be given exclusive rights to use iLearn courses in newspaper and web journalism at the end of the project. Facilities and training will be provided to enable IIJNM to continue developing online courses beyond the project lifecycle. IIJNM will also develop links with other international institutions which have been designated official iLearn partners. These are located both in transitional countries and in the UK, Holland, Mexico and Sweden.

For further information on courses to be offered under i-Learning, please contact IIJNM at admin@iijnm.org