Activities

Media Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna successfully conducted a workshop for the more than 300 Advanced Level students from the 24 schools of Northern Province on 20th of June 2018 with the collaborations of Provincial Department of Education, Northern Province at the Kailasapathy Auditorium.The event aims to enhance the knowledge level and competency of the students in the subject…

Media Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Jaffna successfully conducted a photography exhibition, documentary films screening and launching ‘Kanali’ students’ magazine under the title of ‘Irullenpathu Kuraintha Oli’ (Dark means less light) on 18th of June 2018 at the Exhibition Hall – Fine Arts, Kailasapathy Auditorium and Physics Seminar Hall respectively.The event aims to encourage the students of media studies to…

‘Kanali’, a magazine produced by the second year students of media studies as an outcome of the course units ‘Reporting Techniques and Skills’ and ‘Editing Concepts and Processes’ at their study programme launched at Physics Seminar Hall as part of the 'Irullenpathu Kuraintha Oli' event on the same day evening.The magazine was ceremonially released by Prof. R. Vigneswaran, the Vice Chancellor,…

As part of the 'Irullenpathu Kuraintha Oli' event, the nine documentary films produced by the media studies students in different themes for the last two years as a part of their academic activities also were screened at Kailasapathy Auditorium on 18th of June 2018.The documentaries talked about various unspoken issues and the stories usually sidelined by the main stream media such…

Fifteen number of Media Studies students from second and third year participated the workshop series on building capacity of the journalists of North and East, conducted by ‘Adayaalam’ – Centre for Policy Research, Jaffna with the collaboration of Jaffna Press Club and funded by Embassy of United States in Sri Lanka and, completed their training on 26th of May, 2018. At…

The stakeholder discussions with pass out students of Diploma in Journalism and the Senior Journalists from Northern Province to collect their insights and inputs on newly designed curriculum of Diploma in Media Studies as per the Sri Lankan Quality Framework and the present challenges in media field conducted on 25th of May, 2018 at Media Lab of Media Studies.

The Editor-in-Chief of the popular online English language news portal ‘Tamil Guardian’ Ms. Abinaya Nathan from United Kingdom conducted a sharing session with Media Studies students on ‘The Transformation from Journalist to Media Activist in Present Global Context’ on 24.05.2018.

The Documentary Film titled ‘JSA in 25 Years’ talking about the Jaffna Science Association’s vision, mission and activities throughout the 25 years which was produced with the collaboration of Media Studies and directed by Mr. T. Thivakar, Student of Media studies released at JSA’s Annual Scientific Session and Silver Jubilee Function on 8th of May 2018.

The students and staff of Media Studies participated in National Youth Summit 2018 held in Colombo where more than 300 young peace builders gathered from all over Sri Lanka shared their stories, learnt from each other, became a part of wider youth and peace network and, discussed about the role of youth in peace building.The Summit was conducted by Sri Lanka…

The fourth year students completed their two months industrial training 'Media Internship' at Rupavahini Corporation on 6th of April 2018. They are systematically trained under the Research and Training Unit of Rupavahini in programme and news and current affairs sections.