Media Is The Message

For more than six decades, IIMC has been grooming young media professionals. The training now also includes new media technologies.

- Saroj Kumar

Last year, when 24-year-old Ashish Kumar, a resident of Basti in Uttar Pradesh, got admission in Hindi journalism course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in Delhi, it was a dream come true for him. “Being trained by professionals from the media industry was a great experience,” he says about the course. Ashish had barely completed the training when he was offered a job by Navbharat Times of the Times Group with an annual pay package of Rs 3,75,000.

Aarti, 26, another student of Hindi journalism, says, “The institute focuses on practical training and industry exposure instead of mere theory. Experts from the media world constitute our guest faculty and apart from classroom schedules, students are sent for reporting, publish newspapers, and produce radio and television programmes.”

The IIMC’s state-of-the-art infrastructure includes a community radio station, a community radio and research centre, television studios, computer labs, auditorium, a library of 34,000 books and journals, which, the institute claims, is the largest collection of study material on mass communication. Add to this a lush green campus, adjacent to the Jawaharlal Nehru University and very close to the Sanjay Van in south Delhi.