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  • Home
  • About Us
    • Media Development Foundation
    • Centre of Excellence
    • The Campus
    • Photo Gallery
  • Admissions
    • Eligibility & Procedure
    • Residential Accommodation
    • Fees and Scholarships
    • SAF Scholarships
  • Programme
    • Overview
    • Core Courses
    • Covering Deprivation
    • Elective Courses
    • Dissertation
    • Investigative Report
    • Postgraduate Diploma
  • Fully Integrated Programme
    • Print Component
    • Multimedia/Digital Component
    • Video and Audio Component
    • The Concentrations
    • Entrepreneurial Journalism Special Project
    • Wirecast and Other Technology
    • Integrated Digital Newsroom
  • Faculty
    • Core Faculty
    • Adjunct Faculty
    • Guest Lecturers
    • Administration
  • Research
    • The UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Centre for South Asian Journalism
    • Reuters Institute Digital News Report
    • Countering Disinformation in South India: A Regional Media Literacy Initiative
    • Print media coverage of the amendments to Juvenile Justice Act, 2015
    • Print media coverage of COVID-19 impact on children
  • ACJ Awards
    • Overview
    • ACJ Award Winners
      • ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism
      • Award for Social Impact Journalism
      • Award for Photojournalism
  • Placement
  • Events

Covering Deprivation

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Covering Deprivation

During the first semester, all students take a required course— the only one of its kind taught by a journalism school anywhere in the world — Covering Deprivation.

“Deprivation” refers to the inability of individuals in a society to achieve basic human functioning. Among these are the ability to live a long and healthy life free from avoidable disease and hunger, and the opportunity to be educated and to have access to resources needed for a socially acceptable standard of living. Some forms of deprivation may apply to all, or to the majority of, the members of specific social groups (such as Dalits) or classes (such as landless agricultural labourers).


Although deprivation so defined is a huge part of contemporary Indian reality both in the countryside and in cities, the mainstream media do not generally give it informed, sustained coverage. The course gives equal importance to (a) understanding deprivation and (b) covering it. Through lectures, discussions and field trips, students are taught to discern and report the facts and many facets of deprivation — in context and steering clear of exotic filters. They learn to analyse the socio-economic, political, environmental and other factors that produce deprivation and to present their observations accurately, sensitively and in a way that will engage the attention of the public.

The course culminates - in the beginning of the second semester - in an extended field trip, following which students present their findings in a platform of their choice: a special broadsheet, as video feature, or as multimedia reports.

ACJ students, in collaboration with UNICEF, cover issues of deprivation affecting children. These stories are archived in an online portal.

Programme

  • Overview
  • Core Courses
  • Covering Deprivation
  • Elective Courses
  • Dissertation
  • Investigative Report
  • Postgraduate Diploma

Fully Integrated Programme

  • Print Component
  • Multimedia/Digital Component
  • Video and Audio Component
  • The Concentrations
  • Entrepreneurial Journalism Special Project
  • Wirecast and Other Technology
  • Integrated Digital Newsroom

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