Column | Jagate Thiba Jetedina

Samaja Saptahika 2-8 July 2016

Interesting Media Facts 5 | Regional language Newspapers

Interesting Media Facts 5

• Of the 72 delegates, who attended the first session of Congress in 1985 a third were journalists including G.Subramania Aiyer (Hindu), Motilal Ghosh (Amrita bazar patrika), Narendranath Sen (Indian Mirror)

• Publishing multi lingual newspapers was quite common in 19th century. A multi-language newspaper Marthand was published from Calcutta, which had editions in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Persian and English, each in five columns. Editor of the paper was Maulavi Nasaruddin. Om 1854 came the Samachar Sudha Varshan in Hindi and Bengali from Calcutta edited by Shyam Sundar Sen.

• Several experiments with language have been done in regional language newspapers. The Benares Akhbar (1845) published from Benaras aimed at evolving a common language for Hindus and Muslims that could be written in the Persian and Nagari script. In 1870 The Simla Akhbar used Devanagari script for Urdu.

• Newspapers were responsible for making language simpler for common people. In several regional languages it was newspaper which tried to bring the language to the level of common man.

• The editor of the first Urdu newspaper Jam-i-Jahan-Numa, which was published from Calcutta in April 1822 was a Hindu. His name was Hari har Dutta.

A German missionary  Rev. Hermann Friedrich Mögling brought out the first ever newspaper in Kannada, Mangalooru Samachara, in 1843.

Interesting Media Facts 4 | Newspaper

• It was a Gujarati who launched the first real newspaper in Malayalam. Devji Bhimji estabolished a printing press in Cochin in 1865 under the name of the Keralamitram Press and started a newspaper titled Keralamitram. It is regarded as the first newspaper in the Malayalam language1. In the initial stages the paper was issued thrice a month; later on it was published as a weekly. Besides news, the paper provided a wide range of reading fare, which by contemporary accounts maintained an exceptionally high standard.
• A German missionary  Rev. Hermann Friedrich Mögling brought out the first ever newspaper in Kannada, Mangalooru Samachara, in 1843.

Interesting Indian Media Facts 3

Of the 72 delegates, who attended the first session of Congress in 1985,  a third were journalists including G.Subramania Aiyer (Hindu), Motilal Ghosh (Amrita bazar patrika), Narendranath Sen (Indian Mirror).

Journalists played a very important role in our freedom struggle.

Column | Jagate Thiba Jetedina

Samaja Saptahika 25 June-1 July 2016

Seminar in Chennai

Seminar for Journalists

The Press Institute of India (PII) and the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) will be conducting a seminar for journalists titled, Reporting on Mental Health: Contemporary Issues and Challenges.

The programme will be held on Thursday, July 14, at the Press Institute of India, Chennai.

For Details contact:
Sri Sashi Nair
sashinair63@gmail.com

NDTV is looking for a Reporter in Odisha

NDTV needs Reporter in Odiha.

NDTV is looking for a young person who can think of stories ((visually and in terms of content)) beyond events.

The fresh reporter will be hired on contract and would be paid on the basis of covering a story on the location and work on the script according to visuals, doing live on a particular issue as and when required and covering vital press conferences that is asked by the NDTV Input.

Ndtv will hire him/her on contract and will pay on the basis of per story covered. He will work as independent consultant in Bhubaneswar bureau.

Interested persons will have to send mail along with their CVs to MANIKA@ndtv.com & a copy to sabyasachi@ndtv.com

He or she can talk to Sabyasachi Panigrahi over phone (9437011638) to know the details.

Send application before 26 June, 2016 Sunday.