Dr Mariazeena Johnson launching PreSense125 and DiJAI Students Forum. The cartoon on the right was flashed symbolically |
Saturday 29 July 2017
Digital Journalists Association of India (DiJAI) Students Forum launched
Coinciding with the second Remembrance Day of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, on 27th July 2017, 125th edition of ezine PreSense and the Students Forum of Digital Journalists Association of India (DiJAI) were launched at Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for women, Chennai. Dr Mariazeena Johnson, Pro-Chancellor of Sathyabama University was the Chief Guest and launched the initiatives. DiJAI is one of the initiatives of PreSense. Prime Point Foundation is the Publisher of PreSense.
Susan Koshy, Editor of ezine PreSense tracing the history of the ezine PreSense explained the purpose of Students Forum. While delivering the inaugural address, Dr Mariazeena Johnson wanted a similar DiJAI Students Forum to be started in a grand manner in their University. Representatives from other Colleges who attended the event wanted a similar Students Forum to be launched in their institutions also. Presently DiJAI plans to launch the Students Forum in four or five institutions in the next six months.
Presently, DiJAI Students Forum is launched in two Chennai based Colleges, viz. (1) Dr MGR Janaki College of Arts & Science for Women and (2) Soka Ikeda College of Arts & Science for women. The student members were enrolled through a rigorous selection process by the College Authorities. Around 65 students from these Colleges are now enrolled in the Students forum.
Students from different domains with good writing skills (Tamil or English) and with a passion to become a good Digital Journalists were the only criteria for selection.
Before the launch of Students Forum, an exclusive interview with Dr Abdul kalam, recorded over phone in August 2017 by Prime Point Srinivasan (Editor in Chief, PreSense) was screened. In this exclusive interview, Dr Kalam has given six suggestions to Media persons to be part of national development. The six point agenda set by Dr Abdul kalam will be the focus for the Students Forum.
DiJAI will handhold the students to become a good Digital journalists focussing on positive and development journalism. The interview with Dr Abdul Kalam is embedded here.
After the launch of the DiJAI Students Forum, a workshop was held on the Digital Journalism. Details of the workshop with complete presentations will be given in the next posting.
The photos taken during the launch event is embedded here.