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…
Dr. Chandrika Subramaniyan, Editor of Sydney based ‘The Sub-Continent Voice’, Monthly Magazine in English conducted a one day workshop for the Media Studies students on 6th of August 2018 on ‘DIGITAL MEDIA: Traditional Media to Transitional Media’ aims to strengthen the exposure of Media Studies students in new media and its emerging trends. The areas on Digital Journalism, Digital writing, Editorial…
Third year Media Studies students who are involved in Documentary Filmmaking participated in Mobile Journalism (#MoJoLK) training program which was launched to capacitate young community activists, enabling them to effectively capture the voice of vulnerable populations from marginalized settings in Sri Lanka by Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum (SDJF). The training programme conducted in Kandy during 8 – 9, July 2018…
Documentary Filmmaker Mr. Somitharan participated in a sharing session on ‘Making Political Documentaries – A Critical Perspective’ with Media Studies students on 4th of July 2018 at Media Lab of Media Studies.
The popular Script writer, Producer, Director, Singer and Music Director Mr. Denmark Shan (Mr. Shanmugam Subramaniam) from Denmark conducted a sharing session with Media Studies students on ‘Musical Albums – A storytelling tool through visual and music’ on 29.06.2018.