INTERNSHIP REPORT On
The Experience of Reporting, Editing and Presenting News at Radio Dhoni
Submitted to:
Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam
Associate Professor and Head of Department
Department of Journalism and Mass CommunicationFaculty of Humanities and Social Science
Daffodil International University
Submitted by:
Naumi Nasrin ID: 14 3 -24 - 405
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Daffodil International University
Date of Submission: 08 September, 2018
Letter of Transmittal
30 April, 2018
Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam Associate Professor
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Daffodil International University
Subject: Submission of Internship Report
Dear Sir,
I am delighted to submit the Internship Report as a part of my BSS (Hons.) in Journalism and Mass Communication on my time as an intern in the newsroom of respected Radio Dhoni.
I tried my best to work sincerely to cover all aspects regarding the matter. It was an outstanding opportunity for me to acquire knowledge and experience. Gathered knowledge during my internship period will help me in my professional life.
However, if you need any clarifications or directions for further improvement of the report, I will be obligate to provide with further explanation. I sincerely hope that you will appreciate my effort.
Sincerely
……….
NaumiNasrin
Student ID: 143-24-405
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Daffodil International University
Certificate of Approval
I am pleased to certify that the Internship report on the experience of reporting, editing and presenting news at Radio Dhoniprepared by NaumiNasrin ID: 143-24-405 student of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication has been approved for the partial requirement of BSS (Hons) Degree. Naumi has conducted his internship successfully at Radio Dhoni under my supervision. He has accomplished his internship during the summer semester, 2018.
I am pleased to certify that the data and the findings presented in the report are the authentic work of NaumiNasrin. As a person, Naumi bears a good enthusiasm and moral character. I wish her all success in life.
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Supervisor
Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam
Associate Professor and Head of Department
Department of Journalism and Mass Communication Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
Daffodil International University.
LETTER OF APPROVAL
Acknowledgement
My studentship at Daffodil International University as a bachelor’s student is coming back to finish when this internship report submission and presentation. A bit over for years of learning, hardship and commitment is coming back to a finish. The items I actually have learned are not only from the lecturers, however additionally from the people I met, place I went and observation. I would prefer to convey my sincere appreciation to the almighty Allah for giving me the strength and also the ability to complete the task among the planned time.
I want to thank Sheikh Mohammad Shafiul Islam Associate Professor and Head of Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, who was my academic supervisor, helped me out every time I needed to know anything not only related to the internship but more. He has overseen my work and aided throughout the time I had him as my teacher and also at the period of my internship. I humbly appreciate all he had done for me. I am also thankful to the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Daffodil International University for providing me the opportunity to have a glance at the professional experience through the internship program.
I would prefer to provide special thanks to all officials and staff of professional. I might additionally like to thank the authority of Radio Dhoni for giving me the opportunity to try and do my intern in one in all the reputed Non-Government Organization.It was a very exciting experience for me. Everyone at the office took me as one of their own and treated me well. They were very friendly when I queried for any information and helped me out every time I found doing something difficult. The controllers, assistant controllers taught me which news are broadcasted and which are not and why. They taught me how to write, edit, and trim the news for broadcast. As I had to work on different shifts and there were different people all the time, they supervised me in a manner, I never felt like an outsider.
I would prefer to take this opportunity to show my feeling towards my parents, without their ethical and financial support, I would not be here right now. Their helping hand support me a lot to finish my report with success. Finally, I would like to stay my gratitude to my beloved father A K M Aliuzzaman Khan and my mom NasrinArakhanom, who gave special attention to me from the very starting to the till at the end of my BSS (Hons) program. My elder sister, who has continuously been by my side. And my creator, Allah, for giving me a mind to assume, eyes to and hands to write down. I am humble to the teachers and friends I have, as they formed me, and my conceptions on the world.
NaumiNasrin
Table of contents
Content Page No.
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL--- i
CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL--- ii
LETTER OF APPROVEL--- iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT---iv
CHAPTER-ONE: Introduction---3 to 8 What is an Internship? --- 4
Why Internship is Important--- 5
Background of my Internship---6
Background of The Organization --- 7
Duration of the Internship---8
ChapterTwo:Activities during internship---9 to 11 Daily Diary at Radio Dhoni---10 to 11 Chapter Three: Learning and Experiences---12 to 15 Knowledge gathering/ learning--- 13
Tools and technologies used--- 14
Special experience--- 15
Chapter Four: Evaluation of learning---16 to 21 Academic learning and practical work---17
Usefulness of the Learning from the Internship--- 18
Expectation and outcome--- 19
Skills developed during my internship--- 20
How this experience will help me in my future career---21
CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION--- 22 to 32 Conclusion--- 23
References--- 24
Annex---25 to 32 ANNEX- A: Wrote a package about ifter without family--- 26
ANNEX- B: Wrote a package about Eid-Ul-Fitor--- 27
ANNEX- C: Accident news in several area---28
ANNEX- D: Eidshoping package with field work---29
ANNEX- E: Gajipur city election hourly news--- 30
ANNEX-F: Political news--- 31
ANNEX-G: Political news--- 32
CHAPTER 1
Introduction
What is Internship?
In layman’s term internship is that the amount of your time in a workplace or a company before one graduates. During this amount of time, one should observe the works, work and after a particular amount of time, prepare a report on what one had worked on which require to be showcased in a formal ceremony.
Internship is a bridge between one's education and future job(s) because the internship has to be performed within the relevant organization of one's study. As a result, an individual understands what are the practical use of their study as well as they get to find out a way to deal with a workspace, first-hand.
Why Internship is Important?
Classrooms are for learning, it's a reality. However there are specific things that can't be learnt without practical work. Formal classroom teaching method includes vast amounts of theory however typically an awfully very little practical work. Although academically a student will learn a lot, operating within the field could be a very totally different experience.
Here comes the internship to fill the gap and provide the students the experience and prepare them for the sector techniques which can lead them to a prosperous future in their career.
Journalism and Mass Communication is one of the sectors where not solely excellence or academic results are necessary however additionally the sphere experience is a must. As a student of this discipline, one could find out how to assemble news, conduct an interview, compile the facts, and write it in a very formal polished fashion etc. however without field experience, these educational data can't be honed. That’s why internship is extremely necessary for a student of Journalism and Mass Communication before they enter job market.
Background of My Internship
RadioDhoni is the first radio station where news uses to broadcast. Four prime news and seven hourly bulletins is broadcasted in the total period of eleven times daily. Beside that this center broadcast flash news through the whole night.Radio Dhoni is currently onnumber seven in the list. I knew that they had much to offer and I had a lot to learn from them. So, when I got the chance to be an intern in this organization, I didn't second guess myself and joined the central newsroom.
Background of the Organization
Radio Dhoni (a sister concern of WEGA ZONE LIMITED) is the first Digital FM News based Radio station in Bangladesh. We have started our journey from 14 April 2015.
Our vision is to establish ourselves as one of the best news station in Bangladesh. Our vision is to be the voice of freedom for different sectors, will highlight the issues of concerns & the cultural richness through news, information, discussion & entertainment.
Radio Dhoni will properly guide it’s transparency of responsibility that ensure its position as the most credible & meaningful sources of news & information through it is quality programming based issues. Radio Dhoni will provide program where listeners can relate to themselves and hereby will create listeners locality & response. Radio Dhoni forge an alliance among it is three stakeholders -Listeners, Advertisers & Employers.
Radio Dhoni will focus on providing best, true, proper and positive news to its listeners. Our broadcasters will move around the country & also outside the country to gather all the informative, valuable daily basis authentic news. Radio Dhoni is moving forward with its slogan “SaradinSararaat” which carries its characteristics. Our investment in human resource as it is recognized to be the foundations upon which the news’s future will be built & this will allow Radio Dhoni 91.2 FM to attain sustain a leadership position. Radio Dhoni has appointed bright broadcasters as editors & news reporters to deliver news in a different way.
Thus fulfilling the promises associated with its creation. We believe all positive emotions and positive outcomes will come from positive vision.
However, most media outlets provide fear aged program that consistently assort as with negativity both consciously & sub consciously which help us fear.Our informative news &
programs are designed to give our listeners facts in a peaceful way without sensation providing controversy rather with truth which will Eliminate fear factors from our media.
Our aim is to bring a positive change in Bangladesh through valuable, balanced & accurate news & information. Radio Dhoni will also broadcast information based talk show, documentation & all other fields which can bring a positive impact to our listeners. Radio Dhoni team will also focus on the fact behind the news. With these visions radio Dhoni dreams to be the country’s best FM station.
Duration of the Internship
My internship started in April of 2018 and ended on 10 August of 2018. I have attended in the central newsroom in different shifts. There are 3 (three) shifts in the central newsroom, first shift is from 8AM to 4PM, second shift from 10AM till 6PM and the last and final shift is from 12PM to 9PM.
Chapter Two
Activities During Internship
Daily Diary at Radio Dhoni
My Daily Activities at Radio Dhoni:
I workedEight hours (depends on assignment schedule) during my internship period. There are lots of responsibilities. From starting to end of my internship period daily activities are listed below:
1. Firstly I got instructions about my work from ShahanaJahan Head of News Department in Radio Dhoni
2. Was introduced to office-in-charge Neerob Khan and Head of News was assigned to work in the newsroom
3. As introduced with the other supervisors
4. Was advised to watch TV news and follow the works pattern 5. Organized my desk and collect the reporting gears
6. Was advised to watch different online news portal and follow their news update 7. Was advised to check international news from different news agencies like
REUTERS, CNN, and BBC etc.
8. Helped in the translating process
9. Was advised how to works in “Rundown”
10. To follow the TV news and the online portal 11. To checked the mistakes in hourly news bulletin 12. To translate the international news
13. Was assigned for the field reporting
14. Was appoint for the first reporting news in “Press-club”
15. To follow the whole program and collect the sound for the news sink 16. Was collect the data from the event
17. Done my first individual reporting on the political leader of Rizvi Ahmed 18. Read daily newspapers
19. Was assigned in phono for hourly news
20. To collect data from event and gave live performance 21. To communicate with general people for the news purpose 22. To captured video or images for the reason of web-site develop 23. End the event wrote a package
24. Helped finding new news 25. Observed how to re-write news 26. To get news ideas
27. To get ready package for the prime news 28. Helped to finding typing mistakes 29. To collect bite from the news
30. To contact with office from the event place
31. Learnt about which news to be published and which news are not 32. Carefully select the news for the “Rundown”
33. Wrote the copy of City Election for the broadcasting 34. Helped in headline writing
35. Translate English to Bangla
36. Wrote the “Onno-Rokom-Khobor” (Special news for the prime news) 37. Contact with others Reporters
38. Every news gathered in date wise 39. To present the hourly news 40. Operates the reporting gears
41. Wrote about Eid-Ul-Fitr, City-Election, Eid shopping special packages 42. Follow the ‘Live program’
43. Attend the meeting with the collogue
Chapter Three
Learning and Experiences
Knowledge gathering/ learning
During my position at Radio Dhoni, I edited and reported news from different sources.
During this procedure, I had collected information on numerous aspects of reports and editing and translating news. Information that I had gathered throughout my internship are listed below
Editing News: At my university, I've learnt the way to edit news. Although, it had been a practical based course, I did not really have field experience. The time I spent at Radio Dhoni, I came to understand about the basic aspects of redaction and therefore the huge responsibilities of an editor’s (Controllers at Radio). Controllers are liable for the clarity and accuracy of content that's aired on radio. WhereasI used to be working in newsroom, I used to be suggested to check Bangla spelling mistakes still as grammatical ones. And then, one of the controllers would final check before it those news were aired.
Learning about news: As a fresher, I actually have little practical knowledge regarding news creating, writingand redaction for broadcasting media. That’s why I followed the footsteps of the controllers how to gather data and write. My supervisor Ms. ShahanaJahan advised me to read daily newspapers, watching TV report. Radio monitoring Cell and was suggested to concentrate to the bulletins of Radio Dhonito know the formatting of the news aired by them.
Practical Experience – I have worked in fields for reporting purpose. I have gathered many practical experiences from there. The field experience was nothing like the bookish knowledge that I have acquired from my University.
Tools and technologies used
Till the last day of my office, always I tried to apply different techniques for during my activities and some tools for making it easier.
Computer:A computer was provided by the authority for my daily assigned work.
Printer: In every day I had to print a lot of files such as flash news, packages, headlines of news etc.
Photocopy Machine: Sometimes I used the photocopy machine to copy some of our news
pages.
Recorder with gears: Whenever I had to do some reporting I used recorder, boom, cable
and headphone. These gears are used for news recording.
Microphone: To present the hourly news that time I used the headphone, microphone, sound systems, camera etc.
Special experience
All the news regarded the City Election that has been broadcasted in Radio Dhoni was provided by me. There was no such experience of doing this kind of work before. It was a very special experience for me. I learnt how to cover the news of an election from this Radio.
I was honored with such behavior and hospitality and I also felt at home around these people, which I am greatly thankful for.
Chapter Four
Evaluation of learning
Academic learning and practical work
Bachelors of Journalism and Mass Communication in Daffodil International University offers many courses on report writing, editing, copy writing and advance courses on these in addition. And also courses on Mass Communication where we have a tendency to get to be told about communication patterns, communication completely different in places or with different form of teams. And totally different academics had educated us from their very own views as they have worked in several platforms at some stage of their lives. So, if not compiled the information, normal students would suffer to grasp the entire of it.
Though my academy taught me how to report and edit news but this internship let me use those knowledge in real life. Most of the learning was similar to my learning at University from the course, but sometimes the delivery was different as not everyone was taught by the same teacher of practice everything in the same manner.Working with them really made huge impact in my learning.
When I came to Radio Dhoni, I started to learn how the news runs here, they gets the most accurate news and they cross-check everything. Without being sure about something they wouldn't air any news. While a lot of prominent newspapers are opening online portals and there are already some established online portal in the country operating with great agility, Radio Dhoni is somewhat slower than them which we have always criticized.
Usefulness of the Learning from the Internship
I have learned lot of things during internship period. So now I want to talk about the usefulness of my learning things. I think that internship will make my career easier. I was focused to start my career in News Broadcaster. After doing this internship program, I am confident that I will make a good career in this sector in future.
Learning from the internship:
• How to communicate with othersin a proper communication skill
• How to write report
• How to create a packages
• How to presenting a news
• How to make a work order by following
• Developed my skill by using different techniques
• Different professional techniques to make every day’s activities easier
• Different angle of news broadcasting
• Using tools
• How to maintain the critical situation and extreme pressure of working
Expectation and outcome
Honestly to be told, I did not have much of an expectation. We believe that Radio Dhoni is kind of late whereas published news, they air similar news again and again, and their
presentation is good. I have seen however the news is been edited and additional news info or cut every hour. The newsroom may be a literal war-zone, where controllers are lieutenants, captains and warriors collecting, writing, editing, trimming and sharpening news to air. The frenzy is captivating, heart pumping. The setting is therefore wonderful that however every hour goes by, one cannot extremely recognize. It was quite a ride on behalf of me and one that I shall continually keep in mind.
Skills developed during my internship
Throughout my 11(eleven) semester at daffodil International University, studying in
Journalism and Mass Communication has tutored memore than enough concerning writing, piece of writing news and quite ton concerning mass communication likewise. However as I previously mentioned, learning isn't complete without practical data and skills. This can be precisely why internship is very important. In an internship, we tend to get to understand the way to work in a field or in a newsroom or in human resources and communication sectors.
All these studies results in employment or entrepreneurship. Except for that, we'd like to know how the organization works. And internship helps us out to bridge the gap between classroom knowledge and practical data. And my internship wasn't completely different than that at all.
I have already learned about gathering, compiling, writing, editing and polishing news.
However working here honed my ability to try and do the thing I actually have learned in previous couple of years in my university courses.
How this experience will help me in my future career
Internship is all regarding relating theoretical data to field and additionally sharpening the data that has already acquired. To my belief, the items I even have learned plenty at Radio Dhoni because the learning was very relatable to my course materials at university.
So I believe, like my theoretical data on a way to deliver a decent report/news, my practical knowledge is now improved as well. So, after I shall opt for a job, I’m hopeful I shall be higher at doing my job now than before this internship.
CHAPTER FIVE
CONCLUSION
Conclusion
Internship is a primarily the road to someone's career. One gets to understand the applications and opportunities of their theoretical studies of the recent past. Internship is a chance to explore one's relevant field while not the worry of falling down as it is a part of learning and everybody is there to assist. One will make as many mistakes at this period oftime (which isn't suggested, at all) and ask plenty of questions about anything and everything and everybody usually is happy to answer all the queries.
Internship is more likely the part of a kid who simply began to speak and always have queries on top of their head. They carry on asking till their curiosity is consummated. To my thought, an intern ought to curios, however should be kind and forever raise relevant queries.
Radio Dhonigave me a great setting and an excellent deal of experience. The staff took me very well and I’m sure have learnt plenty regarding news, respecting the hierarchy and punctuality. I shall forever bear in mind these virtues because I believe; these can take me in a prosperous future.
Last but not least, I’m very proud that I am finishing my Bachelors' with this very internship report from an honored establishment, daffodil International University. I would not have come this far without the academics, structure and surroundings this university had offered.
and clearly the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, which had shaped me into the person I’m currently, of whom I will courageously say I am proud of.
References
http://radiodhoni.fm/
https://www.facebook.com/radiodhoni91.2fm/
https://twitter.com/@RadioDhoni
Annex
ANNEX- A: Wrote a package about ifter without family.
ANNEX- B: Wrote a package about celebration of Eid-Ul-Fitr.
ANNEX-C: Accident news in several areas.
ANNEX -D: Field work about Eidshopping package
ANNEX-E: Hourly news of Gajipur City Election
ANNEX-F: Political news
ANNEX- G: News of Padma Bridge span setup
