Young Journalists Programme

How you wished you interviewed people, participate in Press meets, go round the neibourhood and write stories for newspapers and magazines!
And if you get guidance and training how useful it could be!
If learning and doing the actual job come together how beneficial it will be!
Now, here is an opportunity to get trained as Young Jounalist.

Mylapore Times, the neighbourhood newspaper, will be conducting Young Journalists Programme (YJP) for students of class 9 to 12 from July '06 to January '07.
There will be an intensive classroom training for three weekends - 90 minutes each on Saturday and Sunday, followed by weekly lecture sessions on Sundays. Venue will be Mylapore Times Journalism Centre, Corporation Complex, 3rd Cross Road, R. A Puram (Near Chennai Kaliappa Hospital)

While you are undergoing training, you will also be trained on the job. You will be assigned to do news - stories and interviews, in your neighbourhood.
You can file your reports from your cozy study room of your home and mail it to them. Best reports / stories will be published!

All that you need to do is to write an application with a note on why you wish to be on this programme in five lines and mail it to mylaporetimes@vsnl.com
Selection is based on a test report.
The fee for the entire programme is Rs.1000
The application should reach by July 1 and the classes will start in mid-July.
All the successful participants will a Merit certificate at the end of a programme.

Student Reporter programmes are common in many schools in the West.
Read a story about a student reporter who won two national awards here.
And another student reporter who climbed up in career as editor of a popular magazine here.

Gather your writing pads and pens for the programme. If you want you can put your camera and recorder too in your reporter-bag.
But don't forget to pack your scrap books and files for arranging the published stories / reports! They will be part of your Curriculum vitae when you go to college and a job thereafter.

Next time when I see you on the road, you could be shaking hands with people with a Student Reporter ID Card hanging through the collar!

This programme is currently available to students of Adyar and Mylapore schools!

For more details call 24982244.