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A columnist is a journalist contributing regularly usually in a series to a newspaper or magazine.
Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and other publications, including blogs. The job would be to collect and analyze facts about newsworthy events by interview, investigation, or observation and to report and write stories for newspaper, news magazine, radio, or television. So for this one needs to have a lot of reading, thinking and writing capabilities.
The following are some of the important skills to be possessed by a columnist:
1) Active Reading and writing skills
2)Keen listening ability
3)Speaking and presenting skills
4)Critical thinking with social perspectives
5)Time management skills
6)Problem-solving skills
7)Good language proficiency
They also need to have patience and stress tolerance to manage their work environment.
Columnists are distinguishable by writing style, which allows them to grow a dedicated readership. A columnist must always deliver a unique and interesting column in order to keep readers hooked. And so, creativity and analytical thinking would be the important qualities that make a columnist unique and popular among the readers.

Higher studies are for those who have time and want to excel in the academics of a particular subject.
If acting and modelling students delay the starting of work in the professional world, they will be late.
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Direction and documentary production are not opposite domains and can never be. A director is part of the documentary production as well. The director may make informative/educational work, entertaining movies, animations, thrillers, romance or children movies. The direction is the most important thing.
Hence, direction is a comprehensive term whereas documentary production is a part of the main.
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A course in direction cannot be done unless you do a Bachelor's Degree in the film making and production domain. It is made clear merely a certificate course cannot make someone a good editor to claim jobs at the best places.
I shall suggest that when a good job with growing possibilities is there one has to take up the assignment because mass media jobs are the best to do when they come to you. Once the hunt starts, it takes time.
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Cinematography scope: Media, especially the electronics media has become quite a vast domain of learning as well as jobs today. The considerations of abroad or national are gone because the digital revolution has trespassed the boundaries.
Cinematography has not just remained restricted to films and entertainment anymore. The scope of cinematography is quite big all around. There are projects that are done on a global level and even for a certificate course, the scope remains good. As cinematography is learning the camera its direction and uses, photography -still or motion - hence the career prospects are always there. The course can work winners for those who have been searching for an opportunity to learn the nuances of cinematography work. The certificate course, however, shall be done preferably from an acknowledged and recognised the place.
Film, TV and New Media Production - Overall, there is no difference in the domains mentioned.
As a Mass Communication Expert, I shall not appreciate the submission that each of these categories mentioned is different from each other, they complement each other.

Acting and anchoring can lead to a good profile in the government sector. We have seen that there are so many awareness programmes of the government where millions of people are engaged to spread a word about the policies as well as general well-being awareness. Theatre, till date is the best method and tool to do so. Hence, acting is in demand as a skill.
The government is finding it tough to reach the world without skilled professionals who make the best of communication. Persuasive and impressive communication skills are important and even the government has been making use of the best and creative+innovative people by hiring them as public relations officers for various departments. The hiring is not just restricted to the offering by the Information and Public Relation Department. Any ministry or department that is dealing with people, has a need for someone with a course in mass communication/theatre, etc. These jobs are offered for the role of actors with the cultural wing and have ample scope for the eligible people. A course as said in the question must be one that fulfils the hiring criteria.