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.
‘Shakthi FM’ from MBC Networks (Pvt.) Ltd. conducted a workshop with the title of ‘Shakthi Vanlai Kalloori’ (Shakthi Radio Club) for the Media Studies students on sharing broadcasting techniques and structural arrangements in broadcasting sector on 22.02.2018. The Channel Head Mr. R.B. Abarnasuthan, Senior Broadcaster Mr.Kanathiban and Senior Technical Consultant Mr. Prajeev are participated as resource persons and shared their experiences…
The Alumni of Media Studies gathered at first time on 11th of February, 2018 at Media Lab Premises of Media Studies to plan the future collaboration and suggested their recommendations for the future curriculum revision of under graduation programme of Media Studies as one of the stakeholders.Further, the alumni received the guidance of staff to proceed their higher studies and finding…
Media Studies students took part in Media Training Workshop on 'Beyond the Limitations of Editorial’ conducted by Adayaalam Centre for Policy Research, Jaffna on 3rd and 4th February 2018.