Sunny Gupta, Professor- JIMS

During the final year of Master's degree or after Master's degree, you can go for JRF, if you are interested in academics. But, if you want to work for media industry, then there is no need to go for JRF. If you go for JRF and qualified UGC NET with JRF then whenever you will join Ph.D. within 5 years, university will give you scholarship for the same. But, during that period you can't get into teaching in any college or university campus. For the preparation of UGC NET/JRF, you have to study according the syllabus of UGC NET (Mass Communication). There are number of books you can buy from book hawkers for the same. But, pattern of exam has changed. When I qualified UGC NET that time, UGC takes three exams- two objective based paper and one subjective. But, now all are objective based question paper. So, you need to study hard for the same. I can add you in a WhatsApp group of media professionals as well as media educators who regularly discuss the information and study material regarding UGC NET/JRF. If you are interested then you can drop your number here, then I can add you.

If you want to know about exactly the scope or career in mass communication or journalism, then you can visit the career page on website www.masscommunicator.in. And, now your question is for print and TV journalism or acting and anchoring, then you already know in all over India, there are more than 1 Lacs publications of all language, period based in the era of increasing number of news channels. But, still this print media industry is going smooth as usual. It shows that there are a number of opportunities in print journalism as well as TV Journalism. If you talk about acting and anchoring, then dear first try to find out yourself. Either you are good in acting or anchoring, because both field are really good, but success rate or period is really slow. You have to give many of years with passionate will power for both field then only you can grab opportunities in acting and anchoring.

Anchoring, wow, its a great area to make a career, but you need to have patience for getting success so early in this field. Firstly, you have to good command on language Hindi and English both. Just do stage shows, events which can boost up your confidence and make you comfortable with audience. But dear, its really to hard come in front of camera as anchor, because before coming, you have to great knowledge of subject for which you are going for anchoring. Because just try to read out the history or media experience of famous anchor of news channel. Then you will come to know about the challenges for anchoring and reality of the media industry. But seriously its a great option as career. Because anchoring is not limited to only news channels.