Duration: 9 months
Eligibility: HSc
NSDC Qualification Pack / Job Role: Community Journalist

Course Contents:

• Introduction to concept of community.
• Foundation & Development of community journalism
• Community Types and Characteristics
• Concept of civic, public, citizen, Journalism
• Community Journalism Movement
• Community Media
• Community Journalism in International Perspective
• Writing Community News
• Socio-cultural Background of Participatory Journalism
• Relationship between Journalist, Community and Media
• Skills of Community Journlist
• Globalization, Citizen Journalism and the Nation State
• Broadcasting and Community Journalism
• Community Journalism in Online Age
• Portfolio Presentation
• Capstone Project

Training Outcome

• Conduct community mapping and recognize the incident.
• Collect news of local importance by investigating background of the incident.
• Follow the applicable Government Laws wherever required.
• Demonstrate the skills to conduct an interviews with local authorities, administration and leaders etc.
• Compile collected field reports and send for publication, broadcast and telecast purpose
• Maintain workplace health and safety”

Community Journalism is a high demand course with the rise of digital media and online journalism. This is a rising area of interest for journalists as a cost-effective and efficient way to kick start one’s career in journalism. A course in Community Journalism can be extremely useful for anyone planning to launch their own local news media and gain legitimacy as a journalist in this extremely competitive field.
Modern day community journalists have to employ the use of a number of media forms like WordPress, social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as well as manage an entire online community. While doing so, they also need to abide by media law and ethics. To access knowledge on Community Journalism Movement, Community Media and the details of writing and broadcasting community news, a community journalism career is within your arm’s reach.
With this necessity-based approach, the Community Journalism course at Aditya Centre of Excellence (ACE) is one of the most demanded journalism courses after 12th to pursue in Mumbai.
This course caters to all the demands of the competitive journalism career, so that students can ACE in this field and build a successful career in the best journalist jobs.
Aditya Centre of Excellence prepares students to be proficient in writing and broadcasting community news in the online age so that they can become a successful Community Journalist. For aspiring journalists, this short course can act as a bridge between learned knowledge and applied journalism jobs in the real world.

FAQs

• What is the duration of Community Journalism course?

The course is 9 months long.

• What is the eligibility for this course?

Any student with HSC qualification can apply for this course, making it one of the best journalism courses after 12th.

• Is the certification recognized by any authority?

Yes, every certification offered at Aditya Centre of Excellence is qualified by the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC).

• What is the job scope of Community Journalism course?

You can take on the job role of Community Journalist after this course. One can aspire to work at multiple levels – TV anchor, editor, columnist, content writer, news blogger etc.

• I don’t have a background in Journalism. Is this course for me?

Experience in Journalism is not at all necessary to choose this course. Any student with HSC qualification can apply and learn all relevant skills in 9 months.

• Is this course an online course?

The Community Journalism course at ACE is unique in the sense that classes are conducted in hybrid mode i.e. both online and offline. This gives students the benefit of clearing doubts and queries with instructors in class, while also using the best of technology to learn theoretical concepts online.