Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Mass Communication

Reporter’s experience. A Senior Special Correspondent at India Today and TV9, Gopi Maniar, discussing about the field-reporting competition at Parul University. The session was conducted on 5-12 September 2026. She shared that one must stay calm on field, verify on the spot, and never forget their camera operator. The experience and learning are shared in this article.

On 11th September 2026, Senior Editor of The Times of India, Somit Sen, was invited to give a Samvaad titled ‘Reinventing the Newsroom’ at Maadhyam Season 5 of Parul University. His message: Newsroom changes are the future and not a threat; print lives, journalism goes digital, and some rules don’t change; read broadly, check all sides, and complete the story.

Meet Priyanshi Sharma – The co-founder of the independent newsroom Peek TV and the former anchor at NDTV, who shared her views on algorithms and how building accuracy rewards better than quantity at Maadhyam Season 5, hosted by Parul University. She told students that in a profession that rewards speed & noise, journalists must focus on building balanced, accurate, and transparent relationships with the audience, as they last longer than money!

Vikrant Gupta, Senior Managing Editor and Head of Sports at Sports Tak and Aaj Tak, spoke at Parul University’s Maadhyam Season 5 media festival in a closing-day session titled Sports Beyond Sports. He spoke candidly about how digital media rewards noise, how to protect your time and attention, and why a beginning journalist needs personality and a willingness to learn more than technical knowledge.

Journalism is not a single job. It splits into types by beat and by medium: investigative, sports, political, broadcast and anchoring, feature and column writing, and print and digital reporting. Each demands a different mix of skills, and a journalism course is designed to let you try them before you specialise. This guide explains the main types and what studying them actually involves.

Passionate about communication? But wondering what career options lie ahead? Here’s your go-to guide to the top and trending career options in journalism & mass communication. From radio. Advertising, PR, photography, and filmmaking; choose what fits you best, and that’s how you can lay out your career ahead!

To become a journalist in India, build the core skills of reading widely, verifying facts, and communicating clearly; take a journalism or mass communication course to learn the craft and get newsroom exposure; and start reporting early through internships and student media. A degree helps but is not the whole job; the real test is accuracy, judgement, and the willingness to be on the ground. This guide walks through the path.

Journalism and mass communication is a field of work that deals with the dissemination of information and stories to the public through print, television, radio, digital, film, public relations, and advertising media. Journalism is the reporting of verified news; mass communication is the broader field that encompasses journalism and all other means of media reaching the audience.

Maadhyam Season 5 – Biggest Stage, Brightest Stories, was spread over September 2026 with 7 pre-festival industry workshops, 13 national competitions over 6 days, and senior journalists from the Times of India, India Today, NDTV, ABP, News18, and Aaj Tak. Discover how each one has inspired Parul University’s students!

The Faculty of Liberal Arts’ media festival ‘Maadhyam Season 5′ hosted over two dozen professional media practitioners to deliver workshops, participate in PU Talks and Samvaad sessions, and adjudicate its competitions. They were from The Times of India, News Today, NDTV, ABP, News 18, Aaj Tak, The Indian Express, and independent newsrooms. Here is the complete list of speakers, the judges, and what they brought.

AI can write essays and can solve problems in the blink of an eye. But when a machine can think for you, you will lose your organic way of ideation and iteration skills. Hence, here are a few proven techniques to consider AI as a tool and to help you master your own mind!

Here is a secret good debaters know: the debate is rarely won by the best-prepared speech. It is won in the rebuttal, the unscripted moment when you are challenged on something you did not see coming and must respond with nothing but your own mind. Here is how to build a strong case and win the moment that actually decides it.

What happens when the sharpest young minds from 23 universities meet on one stage to argue the questions shaping India’s future? At Verbal Duel 2026, a state-level debate hosted by Parul University with The Times of India, the answer was two minutes of prepared argument, one minute of unscripted rebuttal, and a memorable warning about thinking for yourself in the age of AI.

From the outside, anchoring looks like the glamorous peak of journalism. From the inside, India’s top anchors describe something harder and lonelier: a craft built on preparation, practice, and journalistic foundations. Here is their honest advice to Parul University students on how to become a news anchor.

10 minutes, 60 seconds of PTC at India Gate, and that’s when Parul University’s journalism students got challenged for real. See how it went, what they learned, and how they mastered PTC, Piece to Camera, with real reporters!