Year 2020

'Paddarai' Online Webinar provides the opportunity to the Media Studies students to access the well-known film personalities, film directors, cinematographers, film critics, and the film academics from May 16th to August 29th, 2020.Altogether 30 lectures were conducted on every Saturdays and Sundays from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. by the organization of 'Paddarai', which works under the guidance of Mr. Subas,…

Ms. Sriviththiya Piranatharthikarasarma, Second Year Media Studies student won the second place in island wide photo competition 'Olichchuvadu 2020' which was conducted by Tamil Literary Association, University of Moratuwa. The Competition was held under the title of ''Covid 19 Life / Social Distance ("கொவிட்-19 கால வாழ்வியல் / சமூக இடைவெளி"). The submissions were evaluated by the panel of Juries comprises Mr. Bhagi…

Third year Media Studies students participated in a workshop on 'Cultural Fluency' which aims to help participants as young emerging filmmakers to write innovative and meaningful film stories that would be thought provoking and insightful. 'Chrysalis' conducted this workshop for 25 young emerging filmmakers including 10 students of Media Studies in Anuradhapura for two days on 21-23 August 2020. The workshop…

'Jaffna Gallery' , a YouTube Channel has been initiated by the third year students : Mr. P. Kalaiamuthan, Mr. P. Diluxan, Mr. S. Praveen and Mr. R. Muralikaran on November 2019 successfully reached more than 750 subscribers in August 2020.The channel telecasts its daily news bulletin and provide a platform to the students to show their MOJO (Mobile Journalism) stories, interviews…

Department of Media Studies arranged the practical sessions on 'Photo Journalism' course unit for the second year students in their own districts in safer environments and maintain the regulations of individual protections during the 'back to routine' period of Covid 19 at June later part and early July.The aim to provide the practical exposure organized in order to strengthen the Multimodal…

The COVID – 19 pandemic situations forced the universities to do the teaching and learning activities towards online. On par with that a training session was organized by Professor T. Velnampy, Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce for the faculty staff to update their knowledge on video recording using zoom and Smart Phone with the assistance of Department…

The third year students of Media Studies who are selected and trained under the ‘Media Corps Fellowship’ by Sri Lanka Development Journalists Forum (SDJF) made number of mobile digital stories during the Covid 19 Pandemic Period and Post Covid 19 Period and, published their productions in the official social media platform of the Sri Lanka Development Journalists Forum (SDJF). The following…

The third and fourth year media studies students along with media professionals participated in two days training on 'Election Reporting' organized by 'Internews Sri Lanka' at Jaffna on 7th and 8th of March 2020, ahead of Parliamentary Elections 2020. Mr. M.M. Mohamed, Former Election Commissioner delivered the lecture on 'The Role of Media in Elections', Mr. A. Nixon, Senior Journalist shared…

The pass out and the students of fourth and third year of Media Studies involved in the documentation of 'Second International Thirukkural Conference 2020' held 21st to 23rd of February at University of Jaffna. The conference was organized by 'Thamilththaai' Trust, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu , International Institute of Tamil Studies, Tamil Nadu and Madurai Kamaraj University, Tamil Nadu.

Mr. Dilakshan Prabhakaran, Third Year Media Studies student made a landmark in International Photography Competition conducted by '35 Awards', an International Professional Photo Community, Moscow, Russia by got the place in top 10 % of votes and entered top 17 % of best photographers among 1789 participants who sent their 5225 number of photos to the competition.The thematic contest 'Monkeys' was…