A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin

A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Internship Report An internship is a unique aspect of education that integrates study with planned and supervised career-related work experience Students are involved as nonpaid internees receiving academic credit for work Internship is to train the internees to prepare themselves for challenging tasks in the future It provides the students with a great understanding for career demands and qualifications As a part of the course it allows students to understand the connection between what is studied and how it is applied in practical work It enhances the students knowledge and views At the department of Journalism and Mass Communication there is an opportunity for internship which is of two months duration During this specified time internees need to complete internship program It is compulsory to submit the report on exact date before viva For the last few years it has been made optional for the journalism students to opt for internship in any media organization A student has two options either to go for research or to internship as a degree requirement After having as two months training at any chosen media organization the students are then required to submit a 30-40 pages report mainly based on their work experience in field during the internship period The selection for the subject depends on students’ requirement As a student of Journalism and Mass Communication department I was told to choose any organization for internship as a subject I have discussed with the editor of the Campus Bulletin a fortnightly newspaper that I wanted to my internship in reporting section to improve my reporting skill He approved my application and I was selected as an internee of Campus Bulletin to work in reporting section Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Internship Institution Campus Bulletin I have started my internship programme in Campus Bulletin, an a fort nightly newspaper which is published form Journalism and Mass Communication department under the editorship of Mr Faizullah Jan, lecturer at journalism department The objective of the Campus Bulletin is to inform the community about various curricular, co-curricular and non-curricular activities taking place on the campus .Another major purpose is to enhance the reporting and editing skills of the students in various sections so that to prepare them for future professional responsibilities There are many section in Campus Bulletin Every section performs different functions Functions of the various sections Reporting section Reporting section is the most important section in Campus Bulletin newspaper In this section a reporter covers a particular happening in all its aspects for his newspaper He provides raw material where the editors after its news validity send it to the editing section for publishing in the newspaper Editing section In the subediting section the subeditor’s desk is the center of the newspaper It is the center around which all activities of the newspaper production is decided The basic duty of the subeditor in this section is to control the use of news He has to choose enough for filling in the pages on a given dateline Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Duration of Internship Program The time period or duration which is specified or fixed for internship work depends on the requirements of every media or institution The training period in various departments varies from two months to eight weeks depending on their required tasks Our internship in Campus Bulletin is based on two months practical work for the student of Journalism and Mass Communication In the internship training program the internees of their relevant organization are required to familiarize themselves with the guidelines and principles of report writing They must know how many kinds of reports are there They must first of all understand who the audiences of their report are They must learn how to compose better their reports It must be clear understandable and must contain valuable information Further it must contain analytical information as well As an internee of Campus Bulletin I was asked to perform my assigned tasks in the given specified time Those students who join other media organization, if they showed good performance then they are appointed as a employer in the concerned organization if needed When as internship a practical training is completed a report is written on it where students’ mention there performed tasks about the internship program Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Impact and importance of Campus Bulletin on community Campus Bulletin started its publication in December 9, 2005 under the editorship of Sir Fazallah jan It is a fortnightly newspaper published in Journalism and Mass Communication department university of Peshawar It contains four major pages with different titles Students collect stories from their specific beats, then they compose it before publishing in the newspaper Every newspaper serves its function for the welfare of the society; people can get information through newspaper Campus Bulletin was started with the same purpose to have a community new paper Campus Bulletin, a community news paper, affects the community in different dimensions The basic purpose of this news paper is to cover the events and to train the students of Journalism and Mass Communication department in practical field It stimulates the energies of the students to work for the development and improvement of the community It helps them to establish a platform to discuss the issues and to find out the solution for it It enhances the student’s knowledge and views It increases the interest of the students who really wish to become trained journalists ,they are provided a chance to participate in it Campus Bulletin projects the image of the Journalism and Mass Communication department in the university so that students come to know the importance of journalism, as they considered it a reliable professional career for themselves It develops harmony in the community to control any propaganda lunched Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` against it, the basic impact on the community is to provide a research minded logical minded persons in the field of media communication skills It also helps the students to choice the correct path until he/she proved his/her energies for the improvement of the community In the other words it streamlines their potentials It produces a number of experienced and qualified workers in the community, as they offer a chance to evaluate potentials It is of great help on pinpointing problems of the community i.e mostly students and teachers of the university Highlighting community problems is just one aspect of its importance Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Importance of media organization for community Following are the list of the function performed by Campus Bulletin To inform people: The Campus Bulletin informs the audience about the developmental activities that occur in university It also informs about the functions ,seminars and other activities in outside universities Increase awareness among students: Campus Bulletin as a community newspaper helps to increase students’ awareness about their organizational environment; it helps them to solve their problems by themselves It also provides opportunity to participate in different activities that occur in university To highlight developmental project: Campus Bulletin is to highlight all the developmental projects such as building new educational institutions etc Through its material one can clearly understand about the environment of university To build confidence Campus Bulletin helps the internees students of Peshawar university specially students of Journalism and Mass Communication department It builds up confidence and trust among them and prepare them to face the hard Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` To solve the problems: Campus Bulletin helps students to think over problems and infuse abilities to solve it by themselves It also provides information for the betterment of community; it is not used for propaganda purposes Capacity building The campus bulletin offers the students opportunity to build their capacity as community activists and reform minded members of the community Through the bulletin they can express their views on relevant issues and problems They can identify the existing problems in the community or in the whole campus to others and at the same time they can propose ways of solving those problems Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Introduction to Campus Bulletin Campus Bulletin, a fortnightly English newspaper is published from journalism department Mr Fazullah Jan lecturer at the department at the editor of this newspaper It started its publication on 09 December 2005 Dr Shahjahn Syed Chairman of Journalism and Mass Communication is the chief editor of this newspaper The purpose of this news paper is to help the newcomers to learn how to write how to share ideas To inform the students of various departments about the developmental activities accruing in the whole campus To project the positive information of all outside the communities, highlights their problems and suggest solution for it To enlighten students of journalism to understand the communication problems of the community To develop liberty among the students to say their voice To increase the students awareness to keep them in touch with the upcoming events for its newspaper It helps the students to take positive action for the betterment of community To provide the element of entertainment is the main purpose of the Campus Bulletin The content of the Campus Bulletin is concerned about the students problems and developmental activities occur in the university internees are the contributor s for its material It also provided press releases from different organization Its news items is free Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` from commercialism and sensationalism it tires to buildup good image of the university Format of the Campus Bulletin is very simple It is a tabloid size newspaper which is half of the size of the standard newspaper it is divided into five columns it has four pages each and every page contains different contents based on different issues those issues are mostly concern with the problems of the students The front page of the Campus Bulletin highlights the most significant news items covered by its own reporters from various departments In the inner pages feature type stories are mentioned Editorials are in third page and the back page contains the sport news to entertain the readers It covers the events with great accuracy and fairness The news items are free from commercialism it does not publish advertisement in both sides pictures are provided to give a good look Campus Bulletin is the representative of Peshawar University It is leader then it comes in the basic responsibility of the bulletin to truly present the university on the right track In this newspaper the students give their comments, views and opinions about the day today happenings that are occurred in the universities in the form of features, columns and editorials Hence we can say that it is the voice of the students of campus Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Policy of the Campus Bulletin newspaper Since campus Bulletin is a student community newspaper representing and highlighting student affairs and activities that’s why most of its contents concentrate on issues and reports relating to students interest Also the paper is sponsored by the university of Peshawar administration these two aspects of the campus Bulletin demands clearly studied objectives of the paper, and for that matter some specified policy The primary purpose of the Campus Bulletin is to inform the community about the ongoing activities and news worthy events taking place on the campus Campus Bulletin has to work to create a conducive atmosphere Campus Bulletin is and will strive to create positive image of the University of Peshawar within the academic circles of the country Campus Bulletin deemed it necessary to highlight students problems and help address such problems Campus Bulletins is bridge between the students and teachers as well as administration Campus Bulletin is and will encourage and highlight the achievements of the students and faculty of the university Campus Bulletin is and will provide a platform to journalism students to master their journalistic skills learned in the theory Campus Bulletin is and will encourage students from other departments of the University of Peshawar to exhibit their writing skills by contributing some knowledge based information Campus Bulletin aims at providing well trained journalist to the local and national print media Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 10 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` chairman of the library This story was not published, because my five stories had already been completed My another unpublished story was about a Farewell party in computer science department Farewell party in computer science department was held in Agha khan auditorium in Journalism and Mass Communication department To cover this story, I went to the office of Sir Inam to ask him for providing me a reporter card After receiving the card, I went to the auditorium, met with its organizer to collect the data for my story After asking all my questions he provided me full information and then I tried to make a story about it and to submit it to the editor for editing This story was not published because of limited space My next story was titled News internship training in radio journalism One month based news internship is an effective training program introduced in Journalism Department to make students to know about radio journalism As a student of journalism I did this tanning program for one month It was a good experience for me and I made three radio programs on different issues and social problems etc.In this training I learnt the usage of the tape recorder and doing vox pops from different people, conducting interviews etc After completion of my radio training program, I decided to make a story on it So for this purpose I discussed with Sir Inam (in charge of my internship program)that I have a knee interest to write an article on it.He agreed and advised me to make a list of questions and collect information from the staff members of the program He further told me to make a comprehensive story about it so that it could help the students to understand its importance So I prepared myself to cover it For this purpose I met with Sir Numan (media Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 33 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` organizer) and lecturer of news internship program He was kind enough to provide me proper answers to my questions To make it more informative, I took some comments from those students who already did it Different students elaborated its importance in different ways After collecting information I wrote an article on it and handed it over to the editor for editing Models Exhibition in Botany department When I came to know about the exhibition in botany department, I informed the editor of the Campus Bulletin about it He told me to collect information from its organizer as he could provide me the authenticated information After the classes were over, I went to the botany department This exhibition was held on 26th March 2008 in the University of Peshawar It was arranged by students of the final year To make this exhibition more eventful, the students expressed messages through models and charts of environmental pollution Students of different departments visited the event and took active participation in it I also enjoyed the event a lot by observing different models and charts of the environment pollution I asked form each organizer of those models about its purpose and every one explained their views in different ways I have colleted some comments from Sonia, a students of psychology department She said that she enjoyed the exhibition a lot and said that art work is a fantastic Rabia, another student stated that she liked the exhibition especially because it can provide information related to environmental pollution and provide incentives for controlling environmental pollution Dr.ABRAR was the organizer of this exhibition After the exhibition ended I met with him and asked about its purpose.He stated that the main objective of arranging this exhibition was to raise awareness of the students about environmental pollution This story was about Home Economics arranges competition day On sixth April 2008 in the college of home economics university of Peshawar an Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 34 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` annual competition day was arranged I went there to cover the arranged function presented by the students of the final year They showed candle making competition, glass painting competition, flower arranging competition Rashia Ghazanawi director of sports was the chief guest on the occasion who distributed awards among students I gathered information from Mis Mumtaz Begam Lecturer of Home Economics College Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 35 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Conclusion and Suggestion Campus Bulletin a fortnightly newspaper is published by journalism department It is one of the newspaper collected information in accurate manners helps to bring social welfare The newspaper makes students aware about the developmental projects in the whole campus It highlights the achievement of a high profile personality for the university As an internee at this organization I would like to give some suggestions for its improvement General problems faced in Campus Bulletin As an internship program in Campus Bulletin I faced some general problems During this specified period of time I observed that other internees are also facing the same problems Following I mentioned a few drawbacks in Campus Bulletin  Lack of computer set: there is only one computer in the newsroom it was difficult for all internees to get chance as they were in large number It was difficult for each and ever students to work on computer such as compose the stories, learning about Quark express etc  Lack of camera: there was only one camera available in Campus Bulletin it created difficulty for internees to use the camera Due to shortage of camera all internees could not take a picture for his/her story I also faced Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 36 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` the same problem while covering one of my story to get a picture I used my own cell phone camera  Lack of reporter cards: it was another problem faced by all internees along with me Reporter card was issued to the internees of Campus Bulletin to identify his or her as a reporter before covering the events Some internees were provided those cards at the beginning and the rest remained without cards Due to lack of this card I could not cover two stories at the beginning of my internship program  Late publication: it is published after every fifteen days Our second edition published very late due to this internee’s story remained incomplete It became difficult for internees to complete their required five to six stories at least during the internship Some internees could only publish three to four stories These were the general problems face by every internee along with me Beside this personally I did not face such series problems but some times I come to face  Shortage of the stories  Shortage of class time for covering the story  Number of times other internees had covered the same stores as mine and therefore my story could not be published Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 37 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Limited pages Campus Bulletin which is a biweekly newspaper consists of four pages which not meet the requirement of all the students in one issue I would like to suggest that the number of pages should be increased to at least six from four to accommodate maximum stories Late publication Campus Bulletin is published after every 15 days which is very long time for a publication A student could hardly meet to complete his or her required stories in the specified time of internship I would like to suggest tat it should be published daily as a regular news paper so it will meet every students need Shortage of computer system in newsroom Shortage of the computer system is other serious problem which cant provide a chance to the internees of Campus Bulletin to work on it so few students get a chance to learn page makeup designing etc I would like to suggest that many more computers network should be provided in the news room so that each and every internee of the Campus Bulletin could avail the opportunity of learning the act of editing reporting etc one by one to work and compose their own stories Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 38 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Develop interest Majority of the students it seems, not take interest in reading Campus Bulletin so the circles of its readers is very limited to extend the circle of its readers the paper need to be made more diverse, up-to-date, current, colorful, live and interesting To make attractive and colorful To make more attractive it should be color printed to enhance the computer skills related designing newspaper format regular classes must be given Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 39 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Evaluation of Internship Program Internship practical training provides students of graduate and post graduate with the opportunity to gain professional experience in any field they want The ideal internship offers students the opportunity to develop their skills to gain a deeper understanding of the professional context of subjects which they study in classes Internees are expected to meaningful work that develops their skills in research, writing or editing Students of journalism begin to consider possible internship institution towards the end of their final year to receive a degree At the beginning of internship students submit a list of preferred media institution to the in charge of internship program An internship committee of staff begins the process of matching interested students preferences When the media is selected, timing allowed students to gain valuable work experience before beginning their career search In charge of the internship program evaluate internees’ performance at the end of their internship period and students evaluate their internship report As student of journalism I have chosen practical field to fulfill my desire For this I started with Campus Bulletin and learnt the art of covering the stories Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 40 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` After completing my internship program in suggested time I wrote a comprehensive report on it where I described my performed tasks Some general problems which I faced during my internship program are also mentioned Here I want to say that internship training is very important or valuable for those students who really want to something in practical field It defines career-goals for them It trains students for the future to have a trained journalists media managers and communication researchers At the end I am winding my report with great thanks to Dr Shah Jahan Syed a chairman of Journalism and Mass Communication department for making Campus Bulletin a possible pace to the students of journalism to gain practical experience in the required field Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 41 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Glossary of Terminologies Banner Technically banner is a page-wide headline running across the entire column at the top of newspaper front page However in general sense a banner refers to the leading of main headline of newspaper of magazine also called streamer when appeared on inside pages then called binder Bar line One line headline in a narrow font size Blind head A headline that entices readers without telling about the story also called teaser Byline Refers to the name of the journalist or author placed at the top of the story, article and below the headline of title when appears at the end of such Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 42 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` material then called sign off Beat A specific geographical area of subject assigned to a reporter for regular coverage for example university beat, police beat it is a reporter’s regular source of information Captions The caption is usually typed on a slip of a paper and pasted lightly to the back of the print in the center never type directly on the print as this will usually result in a Braille-like impression on the front The other method is to type the caption on the lower half of a slip of a paper and to paste it to the bottom of the print from behind so that the caption projects This enables the caption to be read without turning over the print and if the picture editor cares to use the caption as it is written he can just tear off the slip and send it to the press Column Column is a term which has two different meanings in journalism column is a vertical space of a newspaper page ,secondly the term column is also used for a permanent writing appearing with regular intervals with the name of a writer columnist column is considered to be a personalized and subjective writing the columnist is free to give him own opinion it can be written on a variety of subject from political national and international crises ,social problems etc Dateline Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 43 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` A word of phrased at the beginning of a newspaper article that gives the date and place of its origin Nowadays many newspapers avoid mentioning date in dateline and even name of the place is omitted in case of city news Deadline A time limit by which news story must reach to the newsroom to insure it’s in time publication Reporters must sure to submit their assignment on time Daily Newspaper that appear every day or every weekday Editorial Editorial is an assay written on the most urgent issue of the day basic aim is to bring about conformity between newspaper and its readers it is considered the show window of the policy of newspaper Without editorial newspaper can’t make its history The survival of newspaper depends on its editorial page Editorial writer is a person who writes editorial he is very conscious toward localism he is very sensitive person his basic aims is to influence the readers mind through his arguments he can be written on any topic Feature An popular form of journalistic writing found in modern press is called a feature the feature is similar to a news story in its from but written with more details and presented in a dramatic and personalized fashion it is closer to an investigative Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 44 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` report in the sense that facts are multiplied through research study and interviews Feature is intended to guide inform and entertain even those average readers who are not capable of grasping the subject through a news items only Headline A headline is text composed display type and placed over an article in a publication indicating the summary of contents of the article below it It is a summary mentioned above the main article or news story normally using present tense Insertion To insert a word or a letter written a word print it nearly above the line and indicate its intended position with a bracket a couple of start lines above the line add a small caret bellow the line to further indicate where the insertion is to be made Kicker A small headline more or less like a teaser above main heading as in a newspaper or magazine also called eyebrow and highline An attractive picture or text used to brighten a page some times at the top of left column to kick off or start the page Masthead Is also known as flag it is a formal statement regarding the name location and other information about a newspaper of magazine such as motto name of editor publisher and printer Masthead usually appears on editorial page above the man editorial Magazine: Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 45 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` A periodical then a daily newspaper may appear weekly biweekly monthly quarterly of even yearly Magazine generally has covers and binding containing articles news stories commentaries pictures and advertisements and other such material There are news magazines ports magazine fashion magazine literary magazine News story News story is a systematically presented report about an event situation of general interest Stet If you have for example drawn a line trough a word to delete it and then changed your mind there u are editing mark to undo your change you can write in the word stet above the unwanted correction Stet means” let it stand” circle it of course to indicate that it is and instruction no part of the copy Subhead Also known crosshead small heading usually of one or two words within a body text in large size then the body type Slug Slug is a word or phrase given at the each copy sheet by reporters or news agency to help sub-editors identify and classify new stories Slugs are no retained in the composed text Also a mental strip used for spacing purposes Called catchline Stylebook A list of spellings capitalization punctuations given to ensure that editors and Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 46 University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` reporters follow one and the same style and hence attain consistency in the publication broadcast stylebook includes a pronunciation key as well Subbing Putting editing symbols in text of books newspaper thus making it ready for printing Department of Journalism and Mass Communication 47 University of Peshawar ... tasks about the internship program Department of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` Impact and importance of Campus Bulletin. .. Rabi-Ul-Alwal to pay homage to the holy prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUM).Female students of various departments presented naat, darood Dr Jamshed Javad was a chief guest at that program He shared... Peshawar A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin ` material then called sign off Beat A specific geographical area of subject assigned to a reporter for regular coverage for example