mediaharsha

Below are the old questions of mass communication and journalism at masters level. I collected them from Ujjwal Acharya, United We Blog and Subharaj Shilpakar. 2059 Journalism I Paper (JMC 501) (Mass Communication Theories) Attempt any Three questions from Group A and four from Group B. Group A (3x20=60) Long Answer Questions 1. Describe the range of mass communication theories in their social, intellectual and historical settings. 2. What do you understand by the Asian Perspective of the Communication Theory? Discuss. 3. There can be a number of different, often competing, media structures within the one and the same national media system. This diversity of media structures can be analyzed and understood on the basis of some principles. What are they? Describe. 4. Describe the distinctive features of media organizations in contradiction to other formal organizations. Group B (4x10=40) Short Answer Questions 5. Distinguish a dominant paradigm from an alternative paradigm. 6. Discuss th...

On 18 March Minister of State for Information and Communications Shrish Shumsher Rana urged journalists to disseminate objective news. He was speaking at a program organized by Federation of Nationalist Journalists (FENAJ), Sunsari in Dharan. He even requested journalists to give priority to the nation, nationality and the institution of crown. I think his two statements don’t match with each other. Being objective is to report without being influence by personal feelings or opinion. But they become biased by giving priority to the nation, nationality and the institution of crown. I have no faith in objective journalism. No journalist can be totally objective in journalism. I was taught in early days of my PCL in Ratna Rajya Campus that journalist should do objective journalism. In those days I was never taught about the constraints of media. Neither did I know about the concept of gate-keeping. Today I know the constraints of media: Owner’s interest, advertiser’s interest and others (...

About me and my interest in Nepali Media. Today I am going to write about me. I am a student of journalism and mass communication. I worked as a reporter for two years for Newari weekly Lakas in Kirtipur. I did internship in The Rising Nepal (TRN) for four months. I have worked in other Nepali weekly Kiritpur Darpan in Kirtipur for one year. I leaned about many things while I worked in The Rising Nepal. One of them was about rewriting. I had read in books on writing that rewriting is only way to succeed in writing. Sunil KC, an editor of TRN made me to rewrite my news. And I did. I found what I read in the books was correct. My news became clearer and direct. Editors in other papers that I worked never told me to do this. I am interested in discussing media issues in Nepali. I will do this in this blog. I welcome your comments.

hi, Today is my first day of blogging. I am harsha. Student of mass communication and journalism.