A Comprehensive Internship Report Campus Bulletin

As a student of Journalism and Mass Communication department I was told tochoose any organization for internship as a subject.. .Another major purpose is to enhance the reporting and edi

Internship Report

An internship is a unique aspect of education that integrates study with planned

and supervised career-related work experience Students are involved as

non-paid internees receiving academic credit for work

Internship is to train the internees to prepare themselves for challenging tasks inthe future It provides the students with a great understanding for careerdemands and qualifications

As a part of the course it allows students to understand the connection betweenwhat is studied and how it is applied in practical work It enhances the studentsknowledge and views

At the department of Journalism and Mass Communication there is anopportunity for internship which is of two months duration During this specifiedtime internees need to complete internship program It is compulsory to submitthe report on exact date before viva

For the last few years it has been made optional for the journalism students toopt for internship in any media organization

A student has two options either to go for research or to do internship as adegree requirement

After having as two months training at any chosen media organization thestudents are then required to submit a 30-40 pages report mainly based on theirwork experience in field during the internship period The selection for the subjectdepends on students’ requirement

As a student of Journalism and Mass Communication department I was told tochoose any organization for internship as a subject

I have discussed with the editor of the Campus Bulletin a fortnightly newspaperthat I wanted to do my internship in reporting section to improve my reportingskill

He approved my application and I was selected as an internee of CampusBulletin to work in reporting section

The objective of the Campus Bulletin is to inform the community about variouscurricular, co-curricular and non-curricular activities taking place on thecampus .Another major purpose is to enhance the reporting and editing skills ofthe students in various sections so that to prepare them for future professionalresponsibilities.

There are many section in Campus Bulletin Every section performs differentfunctions

Functions of the various sections

Reporting section

Reporting section is the most important section in Campus Bulletin newspaper Inthis section a reporter covers a particular happening in all its aspects for hisnewspaper

He provides raw material where the editors after its news validity send it to theediting section for publishing in the newspaper

Editing section

In the subediting section the subeditor’s desk is the center of the newspaper It isthe center around which all activities of the newspaper production is decided Thebasic duty of the subeditor in this section is to control the use of news He has tochoose enough for filling in the pages on a given dateline

Duration of Internship Program

The time period or duration which is specified or fixed for internship workdepends on the requirements of every media or institution The training period invarious departments varies from two months to eight weeks depending on theirrequired tasks

Our internship in Campus Bulletin is based on two months practical work for thestudent of Journalism and Mass Communication In the internship trainingprogram the internees of their relevant organization are required to familiarizethemselves with the guidelines and principles of report writing

They must know how many kinds of reports are there They must first of allunderstand who the audiences of their report are They must learn how tocompose better their reports It must be clear understandable and must containvaluable information Further it must contain analytical information as well

As an internee of Campus Bulletin I was asked to perform my assigned tasks inthe given specified time

Those students who join other media organization, if they showed goodperformance then they are appointed as a employer in the concernedorganization if needed

When as internship a practical training is completed a report is written on it wherestudents’ mention there performed tasks about the internship program

Impact and importance of Campus Bulletin on community

Campus Bulletin started its publication in December 9, 2005 under the editorship

of Sir Fazallah jan It is a fortnightly newspaper published in Journalism andMass Communication department university of Peshawar

It contains four major pages with different titles Students collect stories from theirspecific beats, then they compose it before publishing in the newspaper

Every newspaper serves its function for the welfare of the society; people can getinformation through newspaper

Campus Bulletin was started with the same purpose to have a community newpaper Campus Bulletin, a community news paper, affects the community indifferent dimensions

The basic purpose of this news paper is to cover the events and to train thestudents of Journalism and Mass Communication department in practical field

It stimulates the energies of the students to work for the development andimprovement of the community It helps them to establish a platform to discussthe issues and to find out the solution for it

It enhances the student’s knowledge and views It increases the interest of thestudents who really wish to become trained journalists ,they are provided achance to participate in it

Campus Bulletin projects the image of the Journalism and Mass Communicationdepartment in the university so that students come to know the importance ofjournalism, as they considered it a reliable professional career for themselves

It develops harmony in the community to control any propaganda lunched

It produces a number of experienced and qualified workers in the community, asthey offer a chance to evaluate potentials.

It is of great help on pinpointing problems of the community i.e mostly studentsand teachers of the university

Highlighting community problems is just one aspect of its importance

Importance of media organization for community

Following are the list of the function performed by Campus Bulletin

To inform people:

The Campus Bulletin informs the audience about the developmental activitiesthat occur in university It also informs about the functions ,seminars and otheractivities in outside universities

Increase awareness among students:

Campus Bulletin as a community newspaper helps to increase students’awareness about their organizational environment; it helps them to solve theirproblems by themselves

It also provides opportunity to participate in different activities that occur inuniversity

To highlight developmental project:

Campus Bulletin is to highlight all the developmental projects such as buildingnew educational institutions etc Through its material one can clearly understandabout the environment of university

To solve the problems:

Campus Bulletin helps students to think over problems and infuse abilities tosolve it by themselves

It also provides information for the betterment of community; it is not used forpropaganda purposes

Capacity building

The campus bulletin offers the students opportunity to build their capacity ascommunity activists and reform minded members of the community Throughthe bulletin they can express their views on relevant issues and problems Theycan identify the existing problems in the community or in the whole campus toothers and at the same time they can propose ways of solving those problems

Introduction to Campus Bulletin

Campus Bulletin, a fortnightly English newspaper is published from journalismdepartment Mr Fazullah Jan lecturer at the department at the editor of thisnewspaper

It started its publication on 09 December 2005 Dr Shahjahn Syed Chairman ofJournalism and Mass Communication is the chief editor of this newspaper

The purpose of this news paper is to help the newcomers to learn how to writehow to share ideas

To inform the students of various departments about the developmental activitiesaccruing in the whole campus

To project the positive information of all outside the communities, highlights theirproblems and suggest solution for it

To enlighten students of journalism to understand the communication problems ofthe community

To develop liberty among the students to say their voice To increase the studentsawareness to keep them in touch with the upcoming events for its newspaper

It helps the students to take positive action for the betterment of community

To provide the element of entertainment is the main purpose of the CampusBulletin

The content of the Campus Bulletin is concerned about the students problemsand developmental activities occur in the university internees are the contributor

s for its material

It also provided press releases from different organization Its news items is free

The front page of the Campus Bulletin highlights the most significant news itemscovered by its own reporters from various departments

In the inner pages feature type stories are mentioned Editorials are in third pageand the back page contains the sport news to entertain the readers

It covers the events with great accuracy and fairness The news items are freefrom commercialism it does not publish advertisement in both sides pictures areprovided to give a good look

Campus Bulletin is the representative of Peshawar University It is leader then itcomes in the basic responsibility of the bulletin to truly present the university onthe right track In this newspaper the students give their comments, views andopinions about the day today happenings that are occurred in the universities inthe form of features, columns and editorials Hence we can say that it is the voice

of the students of campus

Policy of the Campus Bulletin newspaper

Since campus Bulletin is a student community newspaper representing andhighlighting student affairs and activities that’s why most of its contentsconcentrate on issues and reports relating to students interest

Also the paper is sponsored by the university of Peshawar administration thesetwo aspects of the campus Bulletin demands clearly studied objectives of thepaper, and for that matter some specified policy

1 The primary purpose of the Campus Bulletin is to inform the community

about the ongoing activities and news worthy events taking place on thecampus

2 Campus Bulletin has to work to create a conducive atmosphere

3 Campus Bulletin is and will strive to create positive image of the

University of Peshawar within the academic circles of the country

4 Campus Bulletin deemed it necessary to highlight students problems and

help address such problems

5 Campus Bulletins is bridge between the students and teachers as well as

administration

6 Campus Bulletin is and will encourage and highlight the achievements of

the students and faculty of the university

7 Campus Bulletin is and will provide a platform to journalism students to

master their journalistic skills learned in the theory

8 Campus Bulletin is and will encourage students from other departments of

the University of Peshawar to exhibit their writing skills by contributingsome knowledge based information

9 Campus Bulletin aims at providing well trained journalist to the local and

national print media

What is Community?

Community is not a new concept in human history it is as old as human historyitself According to new world college dictionary community is a group of peopleliving together as a smaller unit within a larger one and having interest, work act

in common It comes into existence by the gathering of people

Community is a sociological structure of the same people having same feelingsand expectation It is the name of fellowship and the participation in the selectedgroup of the people

Campus Bulletin is the community newspaper As it is considered a communitynewspaper which gained good position in Peshawar University it is called

community newspaper because it builds the concept act local think global

among the students

This news paper helps student to share ideas, information To increase theparticipatory level by exchanging massages

This newspaper is the main source of providing news and information to thestudents and the teachers of the whole campus

It provides information to make the people of concern areas to participate indifferent activities It structured the idea of participation and fellowship in onecommunity It helps the community people to involve in the issues that areimportant in their community It basically creates a new way for each journalist to

do is or her task with full responsibility

Structure of Campus Bulletin

Campus Bulletin is comprised a number of staff members that make up itsorganizational structure The staffs are mainly members of the journalismdepartment, which contribute to the structure and working of the CampusBulletin

Sub editors

After editor another responsible person known as subeditor His duty is to readsand writes headlines to the news stories

He is also supervises the layout and make up of the newspaper, before published

it to Mr.Shahid is the sub editor of this newspaper

Photographers

Photographers are also the internees of the Campus Bulletin who take pictures ofthe important event for the newspaper They can drag the attention of the

Designers

Designers are also considered the internees of the Campus Bulletin To make alayout, page makeup, adjust picture etc in the newspaper Is done by theinternees of the same newspaper The editor after its designing completedapproved it for publication

Structure of Campus Bulletin

Reasons for joining Campus Bulletin

Being a student of Journalism and Mass Communication department I was asked

to choose any media organization of my choice for internship program

I raised the issue to the selection for a media organization with Sir.Inam and myother \Colleagues They advised me to join for Campus Bulletin and thenwelcomed me with great affection

As I was interested in Campus Bulletin because its profile and stature meattracted greatly

The main reasons of joining the Campus Bulletin was

1 I was much interested to become a good reporter to learn the art ofcoverage the stories, Write features, columns I felt that I could do itthrough Campus Bulletin

2 Second reason of joining of Campus Bulletin was that it was comfortablefor me to work and learn from my own teachers as they could provide memuch needed guidance of guidance which is often not provided in otherorganization

3 I usually wanted to have my own stories published in the samenewspaper

4 I personally wanted to collect stories for Campus Bulletin

5 Another reason for selecting the institution was I wanted to familiarizemyself with the institution and the updated concepts at use in today’smedia

6 Newspaper as majority students did not heard before so when I used tovisit different departments then students come to know that I am fromJournalism and Mass Communication department and covering the storyfor Campus Bulletin newspaper

7 Transport problems often stands in the way of working outside for girls itwas difficult for me to work in any organization I was the student ofmorning shift so it was difficult for me to leave my classes

Internship task

In addition to gaining great experience, to complete your class room learninginternship program help students to get experience, professional contacts andset them up for a future in the field they want

Performing practical training internees of different organization can gain real-lifeskills that they can use out in the corporate world

Journalism Department provides facility to the students to do practical training atthe end of academic session

After the start of our internship program the in charge of the program called us anintroductory meetings at the department library to discuss the whole procedure

of how to start practical work in our concerned media organization based on twomonths or at least six weeks training program

Through out the internship program we had attempted three meetings in the firstmeeting the in charge of the program briefed us to take proper steps for coveringthe story

He informed that each internee must publish at least four to six stories In thesecond meeting we were provided a Campus Bulletin newspaper to write areview on it

We were also given an internship report format paper to mention informationabout how to write a report and what issues to highlight in the report, thecoverage of the stories along with general hurdles and personal problems whichface during internship at the end suggestion for its improvement

In final meeting we are told to select a beat of your choice to start the training

Before starting my internship program I was selected for reporting section the incharge of my program told me that I must familiarize with my duties in the givenperiod of time my duty was to work as a report for Campus Bulletin.

A reporter is a person who go from place to place and covers all the happeningsoccur in university of Peshawar The reporter must have a strong sense ofresponsibility to serve the community in the right direction which leads towardsimproved society A reporter is a person who can dig out the true realities for thegeneral public He can make them aware and helps them to take any action infavor and against it

The reporter must be free to cover the events and other happening occurredaround him Our campus Bulletin provides opportunity to every students ofjournalism and mass communication who wants to judge himself and herself as agood reporter in future Campus Bulletin is a leader for students to come tounderstand the entail steps for collection information To highlight the studentsproblems is one of the main objectives of the campus Bulletin

Assigned Tasks

The eight weeks internship programme is based on students practical work for achieving the most prestigious degree of master from any university in which the students prove that potentialities that whether they can face any difficulty in practical work which would assign to him or her in practical life

As I earlier said that I was the internee of Campus Bulletin newspaper In this twomonths based internship program I considered myself for reporting section The in charge of the program assigned me the fallowing tasks

1 Search for stories

2 To discuss the story with the supervisor

3 Handed the story for informal editing to a colleague internee

4 To submit the story to the editor finally

Beside this tasks I also given

1 To write a weekly progress report on your performed tasks

2 To compose the stories in computer

To start my assigned task the supervisor of our internship programme of theCampus Bulletin briefed us that how to cover a story, how to make a list ofquestions, how to find the relevant sources to collect Information, how to arrangethe points to make a story out of it He also told us that you must familiarize yourduties, work as a good journalist Your duty is to cover the occurred eventsseminars and functions in the university in order to keep the students andteachers inform about that happenings He further explained that every interneeneeds to show his or her performed tasks to the supervisor of the program for itsapproval

After understanding clearly I made myself active to cover the story for CampusBulletin with full responsibilities

In the process I always took advice of our supervisor about making a list ofquestions In the end I covered some stories including news stories feature typestories, article type stories and general stories (related about universities

activities)

Following is the list of the stories

I tried my best to cover the stories with dedication and great zeal during theinternship period I learned a great deal from every story that I covered, whichadded to my knowledge and confidence on every step to the way

In the following lines I have mentioned the names of both published andunpublished stories

1 World Getting Back to Old Traditions

2 Islamian Brings Laurels From Abroad

3 Advantages of University Education ( an article type story)

4 Hepatitis C on Driving Seat, Seminar Told

5 Eid Melad-un- Nabi Celebration

6 Exhibition in Botany Department

7 News Internship Program in Radio Journalism

11 Home economic arranges competition day

At the begging it was difficult for me but story after story I familiarized withthe process of covering the stories along with this I saw different departmentsand its environment then my level of understanding increased and with it theproblems that I faced in the beginning started to dissipate This also gave me anopportunity to familiarize myself how to keep contact with people

The most important thing that I want to point out is that I summoned courage totalk with the people and that relieved my inner fear and anxiety

This internship training allows me to apply the class room knowledge in the reallife, how to search for the story and work on improving skills This is why workingfor Campus Bulletin stimulated a strong sense of responsibility inside me

As the purpose of the Campus Bulletin is to focus how to teach the art ofreporting to its internees to enhance the students of journalism to develop theirwriting and communication skills and reporting analysis

is the process where the reporter develops the ideal for the story.

Every media organization has their policies for collection news, news is gatheringand distributed and delivered to public in a verity of ways by number of differentorganization or news agencies by their reporters

Reporters are the foot soldiers of the news world they are the persons how gofrom place to place to collect news and situation for his or her recognizedorganization Reporting is not an easy job it requires extreme car in the part ofreporter the reporter needs to understand the technique of accurate reporting itmeans that the reporter must care to report that news and pictures accuratelyand without distoration

For reporter it is very important to keep in mind the sense of news value heshould be flexible and decide the focus for writing after he collect the material hemust begins with a pan for his story developing ,go through his notes and markonly the information which shows the validity of news a good reporter does notwrite a story without a plan This technique helps reporter to develop their mind

Reporting depends on nature and subject every reporting is investigative by itself.covering various kind of reporting depends on the reporters ability and researchtechnique Reporting is not only mean to collect the news a process to