M.Z.Zulfi
NOIDA 23/10/09: The students of Amity School of Communication from Amity University Rajasthan went for an industrial visit to the offices of ZEE NEWS and IBN7 at Noida Film city today on Friday. Students learned a lot from the livewire exposure to the field. While commenting on the visit a third year student Asif Khan said, “Visits like these help us to have first hand on experience on the working environment. Moreover these visits also help us to know what we cannot learn in our class room”.
As an integral part of the Journalism course, the students are required to pay visits to various media and mass communication organisation in order to have industrial exposure.Amity School of Communication (ASCo) Rajasthan organizes various industrial visits for the students to fulfil this requirement. In the series of these visits ASCo organized a 3 days educational tour to delhi, where students visited Zee News and IBN7 office. This industrial visit provided an insight on how media companies work and also helped together useful information related to the course which cannot be visualized in lectures.
The staffs of both the news channels were very cooperative and helped a lot in making students aware about the pros and cons of the industry in addition to the technical aspects. While interacting with the student, technical head of the ZEE news Sanjay Vohra said, “You all are the torch bearers of fourth estate. Media industry in the today’s world is most is blooming”. Focussing on the yellow journalism, he further said, “We require talented, hard working and dedicated youth in the offices and if you have it in you can be a good journo but never forget ethics”
The industrial visit, thus met its purpose by giving the students the opportunity to learn through observation needed for budding Journalists. The day the students spent attending the industrial visit was both enjoyable and useful.