Career and Scope in Print Media.
                     Career and scope in Print Media
Print Media
• Print media are lightweight, portable, disposable publications 
printed on paper and circulated in the form of books, 
newspapers, magazines, and newsletters. They hold 
informative and entertaining content that is of general or 
special interest. It is the oldest form of media.
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Career in Print Media
• Most of the young aspirants who want to enter the print 
media prefer reporting, but newspapers and magazines 
also seek young talent as photographers, artists, editors, 
computer experts, librarians, and cartoonists. 
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Jobs
• The well-known areas to work in print media are Editing, 
Reporting, Freelancing, Writing Columns, Writing Comments, 
Drawing Cartoons, Working as an Artist, Photojournalism etc. 
Students who have writing ability, graphics or photo skills can 
easily get a job in this field.
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Eligibility
• To opt for Print Media as a career, you can attain a bachelor's 
degree or diploma in journalism or mass communication. One 
can opt for courses in journalism in English, Hindi or any other 
regional languages. Specialized courses in selected fields like 
page composition, layout designing and photojournalism are 
also offered.
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Top institutes
• Some of the well-known institutes offering journalism courses 
are Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi, Jamia 
Millia Islamia, New Delhi, Asian College of Journalism, 
Chennai, Bharatiya Vidhya Bhavan units at Mumbai, Delhi, 
Manipal Institute of Communication, Manipal etc.
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Nature of the job
• A journalist can work in various capacities in print media. The 
print has several subcategories like newspapers, magazines 
and news agencies, and also internet-based news portals 
like livemint.com, theprint.in, thequint.com etc.
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Work hierarchy
• The hierarchy for reporters in most of the newspaper houses 
is roughly as follows - trainee, staff reporter correspondent, 
principal reporter/ senior reporter/ correspondent, chief 
reporter and special representative/ correspondent
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Tough deadlines
• Working for a news agency is slightly different because of the 
tougher deadlines - not at the end of the day but right now. 
The ABC of news agency reporting seeks accuracy, brevity, 
and clarity. The format of writing is very straight forward and 
to the point and does not allow any scope for speculation or 
analysis within the news story
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No holidays
• Agencies like Press Trust of India (PTI) and United News 
of India (UNI) are 24 hours open and their offices are not 
closed even on Republic or Independence Day or on big 
festivals, which are holidays for the newspapers
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