Exploring Television Based Journalism at NEWS24 Md. Nurul Amin Nibir ID: 14103048 Department of English and Humanities July 2018 Exploring Television Based Journalism at NEWS24 A Report Submitted to the Department of English and Humanities Of BRAC University By Md. Nurul Amin Nibir ID: 14103048 In the Partial Fulfillment for the Requirements Of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English July 2018 Acknowledgement There is nothing to do without help of God (Almighty ALLAH). So first and foremost I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Almighty for giving me the strength to complete my intern. Then very much thankful to my lovely family members who supports me a lot specially my father and mother. But still there are many people without the support of whom this report could not have been completed. It is my pleasure to thank my supervisor, Ms Nawshaba Ahmed for her dedication, hard work, and help during and after my internship. I gracefully thank to my internship supervisor Borhanul Haque Somrat because of his very much sincerity about my duty on internship and also for his/her guideline to me from the very beginning of my internship. Without his/her guideline, encouragement and supervision it would have been difficult for me to finish my internship. I thank NEWS24 for giving me the chance to accomplish my internship there. I am very much grateful to Mr. Naem Nizam CEO, Shahnaz Munni Chief News Editor, Mr. Hasnain Khurshed (Suchi) Executive Director of NEWS24. In NEWS24 all employees were very helpful. I am very much thankful to all employees of News department specially Padma Apu, Chandra Apu, Zihan apu, Tuli Apu, Sadia Apu who helped me a lot for understanding the work flow and News works. From the bottom of my heart I want to thank my all teachers, friends and well-wishers. I am really thankful to my university for giving me the chance to do my internship in NEWS24. I feel and believe that completing my internship is a great achievement in my life. Md. Nurul Amin Nibir Table of Contents Serial No Content Page No Acknowledgement Chapter 1 Introduction 1-3 Chapter 2 Historical Background of 4-6 NEWS24 Organogram of NEWS24 7 Fixed Chart 8-9 Newsroom Details 10-14 Other Sections Regarding 14-17 News Chapter 3 Internship Experience at 18-23 NEWS24 Chapter 4 Reflection of Knowledge of 24-29 Media in Internship Chapter 5 Conclusion 30-32 Appendix 33-41 Work Cited 42 Nibir 1 Chapter 1 Introduction At present, the era in which we are living in is considered as the era of technologies. It is filled with tons of electronic gadgets and so many modern blessings of science. With the massive effects of globalization, the world has come closer through the exchange of information by the means of mass communication. Likewise, pioneers, specialist and the scholarly people around the entire world chose to tell individuals about the worldwide undertakings which later Gave birth to media and journalism. There are different types of media all around us. Among them, we mostly rely on five types of media in our daily life; which are- print media, audiovisual media, telecommunication media, radio and the internet. These days we can easily observe that the utilization of media is changing with the stream. Through these forms of media, we receive the latest and up-to-date news of our country as well as news from other regions of the world. In BRAC University, ENH department offers 6 courses in total for the Media and Cultural Studies concentration along with Literature and Linguistic courses. Among all those courses, I enjoyed gaining knowledge from the media courses the most. these courses empowered me to draw an association with whatever I was learning in class to the contemporary issues on the planet. The learnings from those courses enlightened me with a more profound knowledge and comprehension about my encompassing. During my second last semester after completing the required credits for my under- graduation program and was ready to start my final year thesis or internship. As I was a media major student hence it was mandatory for the students of the media stream of our university to do Nibir 2 an internship. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to do my intern in one of the newest and popular news channels in Bangladesh, NEWS24. When I was at my second last semester after completing the required 90 credits for being eligible to start ENG 466: Dissertation, I was required to do an internship either in ELT or in print media or the audiovisual media sector, or the advertisement firms. So, I started to think about where I can get the opportunity to do my internship. Doing an internship was not only required for my undergraduate program, but I knew it would also help me later when I will look for jobs. That is why I had to look for a well-known media related organization to do my internship. As a student of Media and Cultural Studies concentration, I had the freedom to choose my desired organization from the fields of print media, audiovisual media, or advertisement firms. My personal choice was to do internship in any Television Channel. So I dropped my CV in several TV channels. But didn’t get response on time. So gave interview in the Daily Sun newspaper. I was selected there in the Magazine Department. However, I was so desperate to do my internship in broadcast media, not in print media. Fortunately, I have an uncle who is the Special Correspondent of The Daily Samakal. His Name is Rajib Noor. I contacted him and told him about my internship and my desire to work with a TV Channel. He then assured me not to worry. Within two days, he called me and told me to meet Mr. Borhanul Haque of NEWS24 with my resume and a forwarding letter from my University. Then I issued an official forwarding letter from the OCSAR of BRAC University and met him. He then took me to the chief news editor Shahnaz Munni. It was a short casual interview, and then she offered me to work at the both National and International News Desk as an intern, because I was from the English Department. So, finally I was assigned to do my internship at the International News Desk at NEWS24 for 3 Months from 15th February to 15th May 2018. Nibir 3 Television is one of the best medium to reach information to the remotest areas people in the same time. Besides radio, newspaper, magazines are also the mass media. At the present day’s television is the best popular medium of the media world. Just the moments I am have been able to perform my internship in NEWS24 and so that I am proud of that. Internship gives certifiable experience to those hoping to investigate or gaining real knowledge and abilities required to go into a specific profession field. Intern positions are generally short term in nature with the essential spotlight on landing some on the job training and taking what's found out in the classroom and applying it to the work of real life. Employers today demand that job seekers have "real world" experience, and internships are one of the best ways for students to get that experience. This is an important chapter of internship report on my working experience in News department at NEWS24. I have grown passion for journalism in my university life. I knew this internship would help me to understand the Bangladeshi broadcast media very closely as well as working professionally in mainstream media. This chapter gives description about my work flow, how news team works and my responsibilities there. I have tried to tell about my personal & professional experiences as an intern. From my intern position I have attempted to gain the solid real experience to explore or pick up the real knowledge and abilities required to go into a journalism career field. All through my internship I have attempted to build up an assortment of soft skills, including personal effectiveness, communication skills, imaginative critical thinking and influencing skills. I tried to learn about every work flow of News and Current Affairs department as my responsibilities lie in this department. This internship has been valuable learning experience for me. It has provided me with valuable work experience and an opportunity to line up my job after graduation. Nibir 4 Chapter 2 Historical Background of NEWS24 NEWS24 is the twenty-four hours’ news channel which is a sister concern of East West Media Group. The mother company of NEWS24 is Bashundhara Group. It’s News & Entertainment based TV channel focus on urban and rural people, women and youth group. NEWS24 will be concentrating on corporate identity of established companies. It is one of the fastest developing Television Channel in Bangladesh. The company has been doing well though the channel started its business transmission on started test runs from 26 March 2016. So far the channel is getting positive response from audience. The Bashundhara Group begun its activity as a real estate identity known as "Bashundhara" under the aegis of the Group's first concern – the East West Property Development (Pvt) Ltd in 1987. This task ended up being an extremely effective one and had helped cultivate the development of trust and certainty of the urban individuals in "Bashundhara". Dhaka's thriving populace, combined with an obviously moderate development of lodging prompted the landmark achievement of Bashundhara. Driven by the implications of this achievement, Bashundhara adapted to put resources into new fields, including assembling and trading. More ventures were set up in the mid-1990s, covering assorted activities including the production of cement, paper and pulp, tissue paper, steel, LP Gas packaging and dispersion, and an exchanging organization, among others. The group encountered this enormous development in a traverse of under 10 years. Amid this period, additional plans ashore advancement and land were propelled and those ventures concentrated all the more pointedly on expanding responsiveness to customer needs. The first traded on an open market organization of Nibir 5 this group was the Meghna Cement Mills Limited, which is right now recorded on the two Stock Exchanges of Bangladesh. Bashundhara Group currently has more than 20 noteworthy concerns situated in various zones of the nation. Bashundhara City, the multi-faceted shopping center and entertainment focus has added marvelous glamour to the development of the group. Under single rooftop The BC Development Ltd is one stage ahead in the longstanding push to reinforce joins with the general individuals by the unique offering of business tasks and diversion offices. East West Media Group Ltd is the broad media enterprise of the Bashundhara Group that was established in 2009. The Bangla News Papers– "Kaler Kantho" and "Bangladesh Pratidin", English daily paper the "Daily Sun" and bilingual online entryway "banglaNEWS24.com." is now own by it. The Group has progressed significantly in achieving its objectives by complimenting to customer needs, taking continuously learnings from past works, enhancing and collaborating its task execution process. Through significant venture endeavors in every single key division, Bashundhara has definitively added to the nation's monetary soundness in budgetary and capital markets. Basic the greater part of the Group's exercises are the repeating themes of progress, adaptability, and cultivating nearer ties with the Government, the City Corporation and Bashundhara customers. A large portion of its ventures have been examples of overcoming adversity – this reality alone is sufficient to legitimize a feeling of trust in the Group's future. Vision NEWS24 is on a quest to become the best 24-hour live Bangla news channel. The channel wants to be viewed as the most depended, objective and basic wellspring of national and worldwide news for the Bangla talking populace all around the world. Nibir 6 Mission To advance and engage individuals with news and news demonstrates that advise, teach and engage by: in revealing any improvement in the briefest conceivable time in its most precise type of contacting individuals and making their voices heard regardless of who or where they are making a more extensive stage for powerful collaboration amongst us and the regularly growing new media giving a space that motivates productive verbal confrontation and obliges all talks on a specific issue, empowering audiences to take a gander at the world from different viewpoints and settle on the most educated choices conceivable. Goal To become the mouthpiece of the real Bangladesh- a nation that is marching ahead with the ideals of our Liberation War in 1971.