Department of Media Studies and Journalism

INTERNSHIP REPORT

Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree

Bachelor of Social Science in Media Studies and Journalism

Prepared by: Fahmida Akter

ID: 133012037
Term: Fall 2019

Course Code: MSJ 11498 and MSJ 11499

Host Organization:

Submission Date: 06.01.2020

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 CONTENT

Topic Page Number

 Student’s Details

 Acknowledgement

 Plagiarism Declaration Form


Internship Report Approval Form

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 Introduction

 Expectations/Objectives

 Host Organization

 Tasks

 Project Details

 Internship Outcome

 The Workplace Log

 Internship Appraisal

 Professional Competencies

 Appendices

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 Student’s Details

Name: Fahmida Akter

Student ID: 133012037

Department: Media Studies and Journalism (MSJ)

Major Concentration: Business Journalism

Minor Concentration: BBA

Career goal: Building up a successful career in Journalism.

Internship Details

Host organization with full address: GTV

UCEP Cheyne Tower 25 Shegun Bagicha Dhaka- 1000, Bangladesh
Website: https://gtv.com

Name and Designation of the supervisor at host institution: Serazum Munira

(News Room Editor)
Section worked in: National, Sports, International Desk

Internship Start Date: 21st September, 2019

Internship End Date: 21st December

Working hours/week: 56 Hour

Acknowledgement

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The opportunity I had with GTV for internship was great. It not only helped me to
taste professional life, but also prepared me for the long run. It has been a great
experience for me and I consider myself as a lucky individual that I was provided
this opportunity to work in one of the sports television Channel of Bangladesh.
Throughout the internship, I have learned how important this is before going to the
profession finally. It helps us to understand the professional life. I am also grateful
for having a chance to meet so many wonderful people and professionals who led
me though this internship period. Over the past few months I have had a wonderful
experience; full of challenges and satisfaction over completing my project and
contributing significantly to one of the best sports televisions in Bangladesh.

First of all, I would like to thank all the honorable faculty members, who over the
years played a big role in grooming me into what I am today. I express my deepest
thanks to Serazum Munira (News Room Editor), GTV my Internship Supervisor,
for entrusting me with such an important project. I would also like to express my
sincere gratitude to her for allowing me the opportunity to work independently
while providing all required support to complete the internship period successfully.
She made the transition from student life to a working life extremely easy. In
addition, I appreciated all the people I worked with and spent good moments with
during my internship. With their patience and openness, they created an enjoyable
working environment.

Lastly, I would like to show my sincere gratitude towards Mahmudun Nabi, Senior
Lecturer of Media Studies and Journalism, University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh,
for his constant supervision and guidance.

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 MSJ044

PLAGIARISM DECLARATION

1. I know that plagiarism means taking and using the ideas, writings, works or inventions of
another as if they were ones own. I know that plagiarism not only includes verbatim
copying, but also the extensive use of another person’s ideas without proper
acknowledgement (which includes the proper use of quotation marks). I know that
plagiarism covers this sort of use of material found in textual sources and from the
Internet.

2. I acknowledge and understand that plagiarism is wrong.

3. I understand that my research must be accurately referenced.

4. This assignment is my own work, or my group’s own unique group assignment. I

acknowledge that copying someone else’s assignment, or part of it, is wrong, and that
submitting identical work to others constitutes a form of plagiarism.

5. I have not allowed, nor will I in the future allow, anyone to copy my work with the
intention of passing it off as their own work.

Name: FAHMIDA AKTER

ULAB ID: 133012037

Signature _____________________________ Date:

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 MSJ044

Internship Report Approval Form

Student Name __Fahmida Akter___ ID No._133012037__

Major: __Business Journalism___ Year: _2019__

Local Phone: __01773741220__ Email: fahmidahasan79@gmail.com

INTERNSHIP/PROJECT INFORMATION

Internship Organization/Project: GTV

Internship /Project Report Topic: Workflow of a News Desk department

Semester (Tick one): □ Spring 2018 □ Summer 2018 □ Fall 2018

______________________________________________________________________________

Advisor Approval

(Please place a Tick)

□ Approved □ Not Approved □ Partial Re-write □ Full Re-write

Remarks (If Not Approved/Pretrial/Full Rewrite):

______________________________________________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________ Date: _________________

Name: Mahmudun Nabi Title: Senior Lecturer

E-mail: mahmudun.nabi@ulab.edu.bd___ Phone: __01735894851

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 Introduction

This internship report portrays all the details about my internship period at the GTV. The report
contains the assigned tasks I have done there, the workplace log I have maintained throughout
the period. It also describes about the host organization GTV and how I have acquired
professional experience from there.

During the Internship period I mostly had to work in National desk but from time to time I also
worked in the international beat and occasionally wrote some special reports as well. Reports, I
wrote for national section was assigned by my editor. On the other hand I regularly wrote
international articles on my own will.

Through my internship period, I have come to know many things regarding an visual media.
Starting from their house-styles, their way of writing report, their ideology, their ethical standard,
In fact I have had an overall knowledge over how they operates.

As my assignments were different in terms of nature and style so it was a great opportunity for
me to learn how to deal with multiple things at a time.

During the internship period I have realized one thing that learning something from working in
the field is different from what I have learned in the class room. The experience was quite
different. But the thing I have learned from my honorable teachers certainly helped me during
practical working hours and that knowledge just widened my knowledge that I have gained from
my 8 week of internship period.

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Expectations/Objectives

I am lucky to get this as an opportunity to work in GTV, working at national desk

gave me a dimensional experience which was unbelievable. Whatever I have learnt
From my class room, apart from this experience was dynamically different.
Primary objective:

 To understand office environment and prepare myself for my profession.

 To achieve practical knowledge on an electronic media.
 Practical knowledge of news reporting.
 To understand the news management process.
 How to produce news.
 Vast experience of news gathering and reporting.
 Enrich professional network.
 Try to cope up with how a TV channel runs technically.
 Understanding professional behavior at office.
 Writing for broadcast media.
 Difference between writing for scroll and news script.
 Audio level for news.
 Managing information, contacting with various person and correspondent and
making proper news within a short time.
 Time and environment management.

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 Host Organization:

GTV which is also known as Gazi Television is a Bengali language digital cable television
channel. The channel offers a wide variety of programming including news, movies, dramas, talk
shows, sports like cricket and more. It is transmitted from its studio at Segun Bagicha in Dhaka,
Bangladesh. The channel started broadcast in Bangladesh on 12 June 2012.
In 2014 this channel bought television broadcasting right from BCB for ৳1.56 billion (US$18
million) for 6 years (from 2014 to 2020). In 2016 it also bought broadcasting rights of BPL from
BCB. This station is owned by Gazi Group which is owned by Golam Dastagir Gazi current
minister and member of the ruling Awami League Party. This is also one of the pro-
government/Awami League station. The address of the organization is as follows:

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 Major Activities of GTV

Central Desk: In GTV there is a central desk. Where from Ticker and others
update information are going.

National Desk: National desk working the all over our country news. News comes
from different sites. Like Union, District and other sector, national desk finds the
important news and then it going for audience.

International Desk: International desk collect information and footage from

Reuters and others news agencies. Then the write news from their own pattern.

Sports Desk: Sport desk is one of the most popular desks in our house. Sports
reporter collect information from the field. GTV is very much popular for Sports.

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 Working Environment:

The working environment at GTV is very friendly and very co-operative. All the
staffs, starting from the receptionists, reporters and up to the editor are very kind
and helpful. Everyone works there with highest sincerity. All the employees are
very efficient, hardworking and supportive.
I really enjoyed the vicinity of some extremely talented journalists while working
at the desk. They often share their knowledge over various issues which helped me
a lot to learn so many things. From time to time they tried their best to help me as
much as possible.Except I had any assignment on a particular day I usually went to
the office at 11 am every day with a day off on Saturday. I worked there till 7 pm.

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 Organogram of GTV

Tasks
I have worked as an intern in the National/International Desk in News room at
GTV. My supervisor, Serazum Munira suggested me to check email to gather news
from journalist all over the country. Mostly I had to sit in the newsroom beside my
supervisor and follow her instructions.

As an intern, I was assigned to do the following tasks:

 Check daily email and download Script and video news.

 Read scripts for spelling mistake.
 Print Script.
 Video edit to cut extra unnecessary footage if needed.
 Covert script
 Photocopy Script to show among People.
 Call receive from around the country to know what is the situation going on
in other places.
 Script organized for OOV
 Communicating with the correspondents if there was any lack of information
or any mistake.

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 Browsing different international sites to get news like BBC, Reuters etc.

Project Details
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Project-01

Project Title: BSF returned the dead body to jhinaidoho police

Project Description: It’s a news about Jhinaidoho local person killed by Indian
BSF and police going to take his body to his family.

My Responsibilities: I had to cut some footage which is unnecessary. Then I

organized script and read the news properly. Give the main point in the news
which is important. Then I organized the OOV

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The Original copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor

Challenges:
 I did not know what to do or how to do it as my first project. But, as the
project does not wait for my learning, I had to learn all the things at a very
short time.
 My supervisor was very busy. It was really challenging to get a schedule.
 I was very confused because it was my first task.
 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it
done.

Mistakes:
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  Though I work in an office desk as a student I have been trained basically in
my university as a journalist (reporter). In that case I barely know the office
work rules and system.

 On the other hand, my supervisor was very busy and as this was my first
project, I had made many small mistakes and got confused about how to
solve things. It slowed the project.
 I did not know how to make OOV. There were some tricks about making
OOV that learned after the Project.

 As the project was written in Bangla front, I had to type in Bangla front. My
supervisor told me to type it Bijoy but I use to type Bangla by Avro
software. My typing in Bijoy was slow and that’s why it was a bit
challenging.

My learnings:
 As this was my first project, I got acquainted with some colleagues in
National desk that works together to make OOV and PKG as if anyone
stuck.
 I learned how to cut extra line from OOV, suitable and simple. (which I
showed in my copy)
 I learned preparing the project in such a way that anybody who opens it will
understand it easily.
 I gained basic knowledge about how to make OOV from a script.

Project-02

Project Title: Commerce Minister said in future the price of onions will sell at 40-
50 taka

Project Description: It was a national news. It was a news about the price of
onion in our country. Commerce minister said about the price of the onion.
My Responsibilities: I read the script. And then wrote the script. Then I organized
the OOV.

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The Original Copy:

My copy approved by my supervisor:

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Challenges:
 My supervisor was very busy. It was really challenging to get a schedule.

 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it

done.

My Mistakes:
 There were some tricks about making OOV that I learned after the Project.

 My Supervisor showed me how to cut extra words and line. I was really
helpful.

My learnings:

 I gained basic knowledge about how to make OOV from a script by cutting
extra line and words.

Project-03

Project Title: Dudok team visited norail

Project Description: It’s a news about norail modhumoti river site. Dudok found
out by their hot-line 106 about work not complete yet that is why some local
people complained.

My Responsibilities: I download the video footage cut some extra part which is
unnecessary. Then I organized script. I wrote from Avro. Then I organized the
OOV .

The Original Copy:

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My Copy approved by my supervisor:

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Challenges:
 It was really challenging to get a schedule.
 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it
done.

My Mistakes:
 I did some spelling mistake.

My learnings:
 I learned some new words. (some words are really suitable for making
OOV)

Project-04

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Project Title: South Africa decided they didn’t sell their weapon to Saudi Arab

Project Description: It’s a international news about South Africa blocks arms
sales to Saudi and UAE in inspection row.

My Responsibilities: I read the script and download the video footage. Then I
organized script. Then I organized the OOV.

Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

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Challenges:
 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it
done.
 I had to collect the source from reuters
My Mistakes:

 As the project was written in English front, I had to type in Bangla front. My
supervisor told me to type it Bijoy but I use to type Bangla by Avro
software. My typing in Bijoy was slow and that’s why it was a bit
challenging.

My learnings:
 I learned how to cut extra line from OOV and make it short, suitable and
simple. (which I showed in my copy)
 I learned preparing the project in such a way that anybody who opens it will
understand it easily.
 I gained some new knowledge about how to make OOV from a scrip

Project-05

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Project Title: Jessore Jagaroni Chakro made accounts deal

Project Description: The news was about Jessore public (Jagoroni chokro)
foundation and Software Development Organaization.

My Responsibilities: I had to read the script properly. Then I organized script

Then I organized the OOV.

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

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Challenges:
 My supervisor was very strict about potential so I had to make sure to gave
my best performaces
 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it
done.

My Mistakes:
 As the project was written in Bangla front, I had to type in Bangla front. My
supervisor told me to type it Bijoy but I use to type Bangla by Avro
software. My typing in Bijoy was slow and that’s why it was a bit
challenging.

My learnings:
 I learned how to cut extra line from OOV and make it short, suitable and
simple. (which I showed in my copy)
 I learned preparing the project in such a way that anybody who opens it will
understand it easily.
 I gained more knowledge about how to make OOV from a script.

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Project-06
Project Title: Chadpur orphanage collapse

Project Description: It’s a news about Chadpur School rooftop destroyed

automatically because of the poor construction. Most of them are injured.

My Responsibilities: I write the news by communicating with the outsource

people via phone call. Then I organized script. Then I organized OOV

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by supervisor:

Challenges:

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  I had to make sure my my writing speed are fast

 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it

done.

My Mistakes:

 My supervisor was very busy and as this was my first project, I had made
many small mistakes and got confused about how to solve things. It slowed
the project.

 As the project was written in Bangla front, I had to type in Bangla front. My
supervisor told me to type it Bijoy but I use to type Bangla by Avro
software. My typing in Bijoy was slow and that’s why it was a bit
challenging.

My learnings:
 I learned how to add some extra word to make to good understandable.

Project-07
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Project Title: terrorist attact in Maxico

Project Description: It’s a news about terrorist attack in Maxico. They targeted
one family and killed 9 family member.

My Responsibilities: I write the news by communicating with my senior and

download the main script. Then I organized script. Then I organized the OOV.

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

Challenges:
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  My supervisor was very busy. It was really challenging to get a schedule.
 My supervisor told me to do it fast so that I had to work very fast to make it
done.

My Mistakes:

 I had made many small mistakes and got confused about how to solve
things. It slowed the project.
 There were some tricks about making OOV that I learned after the Project.

My learnings:
 I learned how to cut extra line from OOV and make it short, suitable and
simple.
 I learned preparing the project in such a way that anybody who opens it will
understand it easily.
 I gained basic knowledge about how to make OOV from a script.

Project-08

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Project Title: A garments worker raped in Narayanganj

Project Description: The news about a girl who was raped by strangers.

My Responsibilities: I write the news by communicating with the outsource local

journalist via phone call. Then I organized script. Then I organized the OOV.

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

Challenges:

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  I had to point out the important details in the news

My Mistakes:

 I had made many small mistakes and got confused about how to solve
things.

My learnings:
 I gained some trick knowledge about how to make OOV from a script.

Project-09

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Project Title: CTG Rotarian decided to give health services

Project Description: It’s a news about health service which will be given by the
Rotarian. They promised they will give people best health services.

My Responsibilities: I download the news from email. I check spelling mistake.

Then I submit the script to my supervisor.

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

Challenges:

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  It was a new challenge, because I have make sure my script was good
enough.
My Mistakes:
 I was confused and overcut some words.
My learnings:
 I gained knew experience of writing news for online portal.

Project-10
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Project Title: Illegal act by Prirojpur chairman

Project Description: Pirojpur chairman cut the road side tress without any ones
permission.

My Responsibilities: I download the news from email. I check spelling mistakes i

wrote in Avro. Then I submit the script to my supervisor.

The Original Copy:

My Copy approved by my supervisor:

Challenges:
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  It was another new challenge, because I had to make the news more
interesting
My Mistakes:
 I was confused and overcut some words.
My learnings:
 I gained another few interesting experiences of writing OOV.

Internship Outcomes
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During my internship time at GTVI have overcome many difficulties and mistakes
while working in different departments in different teams having different projects
going on simultaneously. I also have gained knowledge and experience about the
different parts of journalism as well as working environment of a newsroom. I am
happy that GTV has fulfill most of my expectations. At the beginning of the
internship I was very nervous. I have done few mistakes while organizing OOV.
Now I have learned many things. My organizing skill is better than before. Now I
am more confident in my work. I believe, these were valuable learning sessions to
have a real professional experience at office while converging at the edge of my
undergraduate program at ULAB.

The outcomes from my internship are given below:

 I have learned how to write a good intro and headline.
 I have learned how to organize OOV professionally.
 I have gained practical knowledge of journalism in office sector
 I have learned many new words which is very useful for journalistic article
write up.
 I improve my thinking and communication skill.
 I improve the skill how to take information from correspondents over the
phone call.
 I have developed better understanding regarding some ethical issues, low
and principle in journalism.
 I have learnt the writing style of the news based on the context.

Overall It was a really great experience. GTV gave me the chance to make myself
prepared for my future career. It’s really a great achievement for me.

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The Workplace Log

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My Internship Schedule:

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MSJ044

Self-Assessment Form

The purpose of this survey is to obtain students input on how they think they have performed.
Name of Intern: Fahmida Akter

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University ID: _133012037

Name of the GTV

Institute/Organization:
Corporate Office Address: UCEP Cheyne Tower 25 Shegun Bagicha Dhaka- 1000,
Bangladesh

Email: https://gtv.com Web: https://www.facebook.com/GaziSatelliteTelevisio

nLtd/

1. During a typical week, approximately how many hours did you dedicate to your
internship?
36 hours

2. Was your internship paid? If yes, how much?

No

3. Was your site supervisor available to meet when needed? Tick any one of the following.

☐Not at all ☐Slightly ☐Moderately ☐Quite a bit ☐A great deal

4. Next, we would like to know how you were affected by your internship. Using the scale
below, please indicate the degree to which participation in your internship experience
increased or strengthened your abilities, attitudes, awareness or understanding in each of the
areas identified:

1=Not At All 2=Slightly 3=Moderately 4=Quite A Bit 5=A Great Deal

N CRITERIA (Personal) RATING
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1 I have a sense of satisfaction in doing something worthwhile. 4
2 I believe in my ability to make a difference. 4
3 I am open to new experiences. 5
4 I have gained the capacity to be more productive. 4
5 I can recognize my personal strengths. 3
6 I can recognize my personal weaknesses. 4
7 I have a sense of personal achievement. 5
8 I have the ability to persevere in difficult tasks 4
N CRITERIA (Social/Interpersonal Impact) 3
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9 I demonstrate concern for the welfare of others 3
10 I can be understanding and appreciative of people with diverse backgrounds 4
11 I have the ability to work cooperatively with others 5

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 12 I have the ability to communicate effectively 4
13 I have increased my ability to be a leader 4
14 I feel more connected to my community 3
N CRITERIA (Academic learning impact) 4
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17 I have acquired knowledge from the job duties I performed 4
18 I have broadened my critical thinking skills (reasoning, problem solving) 3
19 I have learnt the ability to work independently 4
20 I feel my classroom learning was enriched 5
21 I have the ability to connect academic subject matter to the real world. 4
N CRITERIA (EMPLOYMENT/JOB SPECIFIC IMPACT) 3
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22 I developed specialized technical skills for a specific job function 3
23 I broadened my future employment possibilities 4
24 I received an opportunity to explore a specific career 5
25 I developed realistic ideas about the work world 5
26 I narrowed my future possible career choices. 5
27 What is your average score from this test? 4.62

5. General Comments
During this internship, I have learnt many things regarding the working environment of a
newsroom as well as professional office work of journalism. It helped me to develop a
professional network and a good sense of news sense of news and my responsibilities. I
hope that the knowledge gained by this internship will help me to build a successful career
in future.

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Signature of Intern

Professional Competencies

During the internship period I have developed professional competencies, some of

them are given below:

 Writing skills

 I have developed writing skill like intro and headline

 I have learned how to create good story line with few words.

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  I also learned how to keep the sentences short and simple and also
effective.

 Communication Skills

 Skill to communicate with many peoples.

 Skill to maintain and manage critical and challenging situations.
 Work according to deadline. Because it is very important to deliver
the project in time.

 Thinking capability

 Capability to organize and plan.

 Facility to deal with and manage information.
 Ability to work with professional experts.
 Capacity to work with different people.
 Understand the professional behavior of a newsroom.
 My confidence level has grown up throughout my internship.

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 Appendices

 I have also worked on some other news

 I use to check spelling mistake and covert those news.
 And then print it.
 After printing I submit the copy to my supervisor.

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Some the OOV I have work on are given below:

Project: 01 (Original copy)

M
y copy approved by my supervisor:

Project-02 (Original copy)

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My Copy approved by my supervisor:

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My Workplace:

My desk at work

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My desk at work

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My supervisor teaching us how to present the news report

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