Sunday, 16 September 2018

Press Institute of India (PII)

The Press Institute of India (PII) founded in 1963.  It is an independent non-profit organisation established to create and sustain high and responsible standards of journalism. Its present director is journalist  Shashi Nair 
Training and other activities
The Press Institute of India's (PII’s) is providing  training workshops for journalists . It is  focused on a range of issues – from development journalism, women empowerment and child rights to national security, foreign policy and plain writing-reporting-editing. The objective is to equip them with better reporting and writing skills, and to empower them better.
This is to encourage coverage of vital issues affecting the lives of the majority of r people, which mainstream media is really not in a position to cover substantially.
Over the years, PII has trained thousands of journalists from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other parts of Asia. PII was the nodal agency for sending reporters, subeditors and photographers for training to the Thomson Foundation, UK.

Collaborations

PII has had  collaborations with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Ford Foundation, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, UNICEF, Press Foundation of Asia. They have been notable collaborations – with the British Council, Thomson Foundation, Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Oxfam (GB), Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, International Council for Rehabilitation of Torture Victims, and International Red Cross.
Research Institute for Newspaper Development (RIND)
RIND was established under the Registration of Societies Act in 1979 with the joint efforts of seven newspaper publishers and editors – the Ananda Bazar Patrika, The Hindu, Malayala Manorama, Deccan Herald, Nai Dunia, Andhra Patrika and Gujarat Samachar. The initiative is  taken by C.G.K. Reddy after he had retired from The Hindu as business manager.  Reddy became the institution’s first director, and editor of its publication RIND Survey, a monthly that focuses more on the technical aspects of the newspaper and news publishing business. In recent years, this has expanded to include developments in television, the Internet and social or new media.
RIND  has  been also conducting workshops for the technical staff in news publishing houses, equipping them with knowledge relating to developments in the field and the necessary skills to function effectively. 

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