The Asian College of Journalism (ACJ) in Chennai, India is a premier journalism school which offers postgraduate courses in journalism. ACJ offers a one year postgraduate diploma with specialisation in four streams under its 10 month programme – Television, Print, New Media and Radio.
In the first trimester, all students, irrespective of their chosen medium, are taught the basics of Broadcast, Web and Print. From the second trimester onwards, students learn reporting in their choice of medium. The highlight of the stream specialisations are the in-house publications that students work on throughout the term. Print students publish their newspaper ‘The Word’ twice a week. Similarly New Media students report for their news e-zine, ACJ Newsline [1] on a daily basis. Television and radio students produce news shows everyday.
Asian College of Journalism, Bangalore was founded in 1994 by the Indian Express group, offering only a print course. In 2000, it was taken over by the not-for-profit Trust founded by journalist and media entrepreneur, Sashi Kumar and was shifted to Chennai, in the same location as the old Hindu office on Wallajah Road. It now comes under the aegis of the Media Development Foundation, headed by chairman Sashi Kumar. For the first two years in in Chennai it was headed by K Thomas Oommen. Oommen was a veteran who had set up the Times Foundation school for Journalism in the 1980s and was part of IIMC, Delhi in the 1970s. Oommen back to his ancestral home in Kottayam, Kerala where he now runs the Malayala Manorama School of Journalism. [Faculty][2] includes former media professionals like Dr Nalini Rajan, Nishat Ahmed, Sampath Kumar, Bindu Bhaskar, Sreekumar Menon, Dr (Adv) V Krishna Ananth, Mahalakshmi Jayaram, V Ramnarayan, Subhashini Dinesh, S Manikandan and Gita Abraham. [Adjucnt faculty][3] include P Sainath, Dr. K Nagaraj, Sadanand Menon and Nirmal Shekar.
Over the second and third terms, students take three [electives][4] out of the 16 offered by the college. Photo Journalism, Cinema, Sports, Politics, Arts and Culture, Identities, International Issues, Business, Gender studies, Ecology, Citizenship, Health, Science, Urban studies and Economics are some of the electives.
Admission to the program is through a three stage process :
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