Nominations for The Peace Gong Karmaveer Award for best Child Reporter

Nominations for The Peace Gong 

Karmaveer Award for best 

Child Reporter

One of the focuses of the Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation is to promote Media and Information Literacy Education. The effort is not only to develop communicative skills amongst children but also develop their capacities to be active consumers of media. Through this initiative, the effort is to develop critical understanding of the media amongst children. It trains children to develop their own media products including newspapers, films and radio programmes. As part of this effort, it is promoting a children’s e-paper, The Peace Gong.

The right of the child to express herself/himself through the media is underlined in the Article 13 of the Convention of the Rights of the Child which says: The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child’s choice.

One of the aims of the  Media and Information Literacy Education programme is to encourage children to understand and write on issues concerning them and the society. In this context to recognize and promote child reporting initiatives on social issues, the Foundation in association with iCongo is launching the Peace Gong Karmaveer Puraskar for the best child reporter.

Who can apply for the award?

 
1)       Children between 14-17 years of age.
2)      To celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore, the Foundation has initiated Project Gitanjali to promote children’s action on peace and environment. The theme for the Award is the ‘linkage between peace and environment’.
3)      The child who is sending her/his nomination for the award should be able to write a real and properly documented based on real life stories and not fiction.
4)     It should necessarily reflect the journalistic style of writing.
5)      It should not be more than 1200 words in length.
6)     The medium should be either in English or Hindi.
7)      Age proof of the child is essential for applying for the award.

All nominations should be sent to: Prof T K Thomas, Chairperson, Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore Foundation at rabindranathtagorefoundation@gmail.com
The last date of sending of nominations is October 10, 2011. 

journalism question paper

JOURNALISM
AUGUST 2011  Time: 2hr 15 mts HSE II  Score: 60
Compiled by Team Teachers of MARC
1. If you are appointed to report an accident which sources you approach to get Information? Score: 3

2. In a meet the press ‘Chief Minister Oommenchandy said that the government will enact a law for compulsory service for a minimum period of five years for doctors who studies in government colleges.

The Kerala State Council for child welfare decided to adopt ‘Aromal’, the three Year old child who was the victim of harassment. General Secretary of the Council A.Krishnan said in a press conference on Sunday.

The state government will setup a Kerala inland water development authority on The lines of the inland water ways development authority. The proposal is awaiting cabinet approval. Official sources told the reporters in a press briefing. Elaborate the underlined terms. Score: 6

3. You watch the following two situations in a TV channel.
1) You saw a reporter collecting the view of common people about the recent price hike in petroleum products. 2) A television anchor interviewing Aishwarya Ray.
a) Classify the above two types of interviews.
b) Compare them and suggest their similarities and differences. Score: 4

4. Meera goes through today’s radio programme published in daily. She noticed the programme. That is Subhashitham, Vayalum Veedum, and Yuvavani. He hears those programmes. Make a brief note about the programmes she heard. Score: 6

5. Amritha is a newly appointed sub editor is a news paper. The news editor gives her a book to follow copy editing rules can you name the book. Score: 3

6. Madhu is a fifth standard student. He is not interested in reading News but he is eager to read cartoons. State reasons behind this behavior. Score: 3

7. You got a letter from programme executive of All India Radio. It asks a three minute script for Radio drama competition. Prepare the script. Score: 5

8. While hearing a radio drama, you hear the pattering sound of rain and the 'roaring' of thunder. Can you name this process of adding such sounds? Score: 2

9. Adershini is a newly appointed sub editor trainee in your News paper. This is Her first day in the news paper. She is amazed with the bundles of news flow from various sources. Being a senior sub editor she approaches you to get the Principles of editing prevailing in your news room. Help Adershini by providing necessary information Score: 6

10. Cartoon Network, Pogo, Nick etc are some of the channels that attracted Children of all age. Can you distinguish the salient features of these channels? That evokes the attraction? Score: 2

11. Imagine your school is going to celebrate Golden Jubilee next month. You are asked to prepare a poster in Malayalam about the Golden Jubilee Celebrations. The poster should include:
Name of the school, Golden Jubilee Celebration Date, Venue, Chief Guests, Programmes etc. Score: 4

12. Prepare a profile of S. Sadananth using following hints.
[An able editor and innovator – started career in Burma in 1920s –staff of Rangoon Newspaper purchased ‘Indian express’ in 1932 – started ‘Free Press Journal’ And Gayathri daily “Navbharat’ in 1932 – started Tamil daily ‘Ceremony’ – builder of News papers] Score: 5

13. The editor gives you a write up written in chronological order. Then he asks You to re-write it into a hard story. Explain the structure of such stories with the help Of a suitable diagram. Score: 3

14. Ban of Plastic Products’ is an issue that gets wide popularity today. The Literary club of your school is going to conduct a chart exhibition on this topic. As journalism students you are assigned to prepare a Malayalam write-up on the ‘Impact of Plastic on Our Environment’. Prepare a write-up of 100 words to be Presented on the chart by using the following Score: 3

15. Now days, different types of reality shows capture the various TV channels.Your channel also decided to launch a Musical Reality show. Prepare a 2 minute TV script for the trailer of the Show. Also suggest a suitable title For the Reality show. The script should include the following details. Date of commencement of the show. Nature of Peculiarities Score: 5

Journalism question paper

Second Year First Terminal Examination  August 2011

JOURNALISM
Maximum Score : 60  Time : 2 Hours 
Cool of time : 15 Minutes
By Dr. Roy Thomas

I. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two. a) OB Vans b) Track and Trolley c) Medium Wave d) FTP  e) Syntax [score:5]

II. Mr. Rahul is a crime reporter in ‘National Today’ magazine. The management has given clear cut instruction to him that on the elements that are to be included while writing a crime story. As the students of Journalism, what are the elements that are to be observedby Mr. Rahul while writing a news story. [4]

III. Do you think that media is going prominence to development issues in the modern world. What is your opinion? Substantiate your answer with suitable examples. [6]

IV. Answer the following in a word or two. a) Director General of All India Radio b) Chairman of Press Council of India c) Chairman of National Film Development Corporation d) The Chief Editor of ‘The Hindu’ daily. e) The headquarters of ‘Mathrubhumi daily’. [5]

V. The advent of ‘Radio Village’ accelerated the development of Village Community. Do you agree with this view? Also mention the eminent personality who introduced ‘Radio Village’ and the year. [5]

VI. Abbreviate the following. a) DTP b) www c) PTI d) WYSIWYG e) FM  [5]

VII. Is has been reported by various medias that the Kerala state is inflicted with Dungi fever and Chicken Guniea. The Health Ministry is doing nothing to control Dungi fever and Chicken Guniea. Write a letter to the Editor of ‘The New Indian Express’ on the necessity to control the Dungi fever and Chicken Guniea [4]

VIII. Define Interview. What are the guidelines that should be observed for conducting a good Interview? As Journalism students, if you are given a chance to interview actor Salim Kumar, who won the National award for best actor, write down six probable questions that you would ask him? [7]

IX. Mr. Ravi is a freelance journalist working with different print medias. What are the qualities that Mr.Ravi should posses as a freelance journalist. Also define freelance journalist. [5]

X. Draw the organizational structure of a news Bureau. [4]

XI. Who is the minister of Information and Broadcasting Minister of India. [1]

XII. Technically, the news story is written in ‘Inverted Pyramid Style’. Explain Inverted Pyramid with Diagram. [3]

XIII. Explain 5 W’s and 1’ H’ [2]

XIV. What are the different types of features? Explain it briefly. Also define the term ‘feature (4)