Government to frame guidelines for Media Schools

Updated on: Monday, March 12, 2012

The government is contemplating framing of guidelines to protect the interest of students from the mushroomimg media schools in the country. The Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ambika Soni has written to HRD Minister Kapil Sibal about the need to create a framework for these institutes whose numbers were going up due to media industry witnessing a high growth rate.
 
"This growth rate, this interest in the print media has led to a lot of so called training schools. Media shops as sometimes people are calling them," Soni said at a function organised to award the prestigious Seema Nazreth Award for Journalistic Excellence. Soni gave away the award to Indulekha Arvind of Business Standard.

She said that there were complaints of exorbitant fees being charged by these institutes for courses which were often not recognised. "Initially you might have landed a job as a TV journalist or with some newspaper or some other print media publication. But if you happen to leave that and look for something else that diploma may not be recognised," she said.

"I wrote to the HRD minister that we must do something about these mushrooming media institutes. There must be some ground rules that all of them must follow. So that the talent which admits itself in such institutes sometimes should not be disillusioned at the end of the day," Soni said.
 
Soni also deprecated the trend of paid news, saying that it weakened the argument for complete freedom for media.

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