Media Studies students took part in ‘Master Class on Documentary Film-making’ - A parallel session of Jaffna International Cinema Festival 2018, conducted by Brad Allgood (USA), a well-known Documentary Filmmaker and the director of ‘Landfill Harmonic’ on 4th of October at American Corner, Jaffna. The Master Class provided a space to the students get to know the international experiences and professional…
As a facilitation to the university activities, Media Studies covered the Jaffna University International Conference – 2018 (JUICe 2018) held on 27th and 28th of September 2018 and furnished a documentary on the event.
The four students: Mr. Thivakar Thiruchchelvam, Mr. Ramanathan Jeyanthan, Ms. Vijayatharsini Vijayakumar and Ms. Pirainila Krishnarajah who are completed their final year of studies presented their dissertations as research papers at the Jaffna University International Conference – 2018 (JUICe 2018) held on 28th of September 2018.
Media Studies students and staff participated in 20th Anniversary of Colombo Declaration on Media Freedom and Social Responsibility in Colombo. The three days anniversary events and the International Conference conducted by Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka (PCCSL) and Sri Lanka College of Journalism from 27th to 29th of September 2018. Mr. A. Nixon further explained the constitutional background…
As per the request from the Chairman, Tourism Bureau, Northern Province to the Vice Chancellor – University of Jaffna, the students of Media Studies visited tourist attractive places in Jaffna Peninsula and prepared news features, interviews and travel articles and published them in local newspapers as a part of public awareness related to ‘World Tourism Day 2018’.
Mr. Nadarasa Saravanan, Senior Journalist and Columnist of 'Sarinigar' (Published as a weekly from 1991 - 2001 in Colombo) and presently involve in media research in Norway has shared his experiences on the theme of ‘Searching Optimization in Media’ on 17.09.2018 to the Media Studies students.
The ‘Shakthi FM’ Radio invited the students of Media Studies to participate in their special live programme from Jaffna - Nallur Temple premises during its annual festival days in order to learn and enhance broadcasting skills. More than 20 students were actively participated in professional broadcasting under the supervision of the senior broadcasters.
Mr. A. Nixon, Senior Journalist and Bureau Chief - IBC Tamil TV, Radio and Website Colombo office has shared his experiences on the theme of ‘Writing News – System and Ethics’ on 06.09.2018 in Media Studies.
Under the ‘Media Empowerment for a Democratic Sri Lanka (MEND)’ Programme which is implemented by International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) – the opportunity given to the students of Media Studies to take part in a presentation on ‘Media Content Analysis’, as part of their programme on 6th of September at Media Lab. Addition to this, the International Research and Exchanges…
Media Studies conducted two days workshop on ‘Editing Documentaries’ for the students of Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna as part of their subject ‘Cinema and Television’ on 11th and 12th of August at Media Lab with the assistance of Mr. Y. Maran – Technical Officer, Media Studies and Mr. S.Sriram – Audio Visual Technical Officer, Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University under…