Dear friends and well-wishers of Guwahati Press Club,
Here is a small news item for your information and use.
Regards,
Nava Thakuria,
Secretary,
Guwahati Press Club,
Ambari, Guwahati-781001
Ph. 0361 2630963
GNRC media fellows declared
Guwahati: The name of the fellows for the 3rd GNRC media fellowship (2007-08)
has been declared. Three promising reporters namely Lakhyajit Gohain (Dainik
Janambhumi), Kishore Kumar Bhuyan (Dainik Batori) and Samya Bharadwaj (Amar
Asom) have been selected for the three-month long fellowship.
The media fellowship programme, conceived by Dr NC Borah, CMD of GNRC Hospital
and implemented with the help of Guwahati Press Club is expected to provide the
fellows an opportunity to study the present healthcare scenario in Northeast
India.
Each fellow will receive Rs 10,000 (ten thousand only) per month as
remuneration. Till date, seven journalists of Assam have successfully completed
the GNRC media fellowship. The submitted reports of the fellows will be
compiled in a book form, stated in a release issued by the GPC secretary, Nava
Thakuria.
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Dear editor,
Here is a news item for your use.
Regards,
Nava Thakuria,
Guwahati.
Media workshop on HIV-AIDS concluded
Guwahati: The two-day media workshop, organized by the School of Journalism,
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (USA) in association with Guwahati
Press Club for mid career journalists of Assam has come to a successful end
today evening. The workshop was aimed at strengthening media professionalism
and the NGO-media interface in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka for HIV/AIDS
coverage. It witnessed the participation of journalists and the
Non-Governmental Organizations workers.
The workshop was led by two American faculty members (James D. Kelly and
Jyotika Ramaprasad) with experience in print and television journalism,
photojournalism, and social marketing communication campaigns. James Kelly has
worked for the Associated Press and for the South Bend (Indiana) Tribune
newspaper and is Associate Professor at Indiana University. Similarly Jyotika
Ramaprasad has worked on communication campaigns for international agencies
including Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand and is
Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University.
The first session of the workshop was also addressed by Dr SI Ahmed, chairman
of AIDS Prevention Society, who highlighted the convincing role of media in
fighting against the HIV-AIDS menace around the globe.
The participating journalists namely Ruby Barua Das, Juthika Das, Subhamoy
Bhatacharjee, Kamal K. Das, Nabajit Barthakur and Jayant Konwar were awarded
with certificates at the end of the workshop, informed Nava Thakuria, Secretary
of Guwahati Press Club.
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