CHAPTER – 1

History of Print Media

1. 1800-1850

• The first Urdu Newspaper was ‘Jam-i-Jahan-Numa’, founded by Harihar Dutta

in 1822 in Kolkata.

• Raja Ram Mohan Roy

1. ‘Brahmanical Magazine’ published in English in 1821
2. ‘Sambad Kaumudi’ Journal published in Bengali in 1821.
3. ‘Mirat Ul Akhbar’ Newspaper published in Persian. 1822-1823

• The first Hindi newspaper ‘ Oodhund Martand’, a weekly was published in Kolkata
on May 30, 1826 in the interest of Hindustanis. Its editor Yugal Kishore Shukla
faced many difficulties in running it.

• The second Hindi newspaper ‘Banga Doot’ was published in 1829 by Raja Ram
Mohan Roy and Dwarika Prasad Thakore with Nilratan Haldar as its editor.

• Yugal Kishore Shukla made another attempt to start another paper in 1850 called
‘Samyadni Martand’ but this also failed.

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2. 1850-1900

• On 14 January 1850, Munshi Harsukh Rai started a weekly ‘Kohinoor’, which

had a remarkably high (for those times) circulation of 350 copies.

• There was extensive growth in Urdu journalism from the 1850s till Independence
in 1947.

• the first Urdu newspaper of Delhi were Fawaid-ul-Nazarin and Kiran-us-Sadai,

founded by Rama Chandra in 1852.

• The first daily Samachar ‘Sudha Varshan’ came out in June 1854 from Kolkata
with Shyam Sunder Sen as its editor and publisher.

• In 1878, ‘The Hindu’ was founded, and played a vital role in providing the cause
of Indian Independence from the colonial oppression.

• Tara Chand Dutta, eminent Bengali journalist founded Bengali weekly ‘Sambad
kaumudi’. Editor of this three page weekly paper was Sadasukhlal. After English
and Hindi it was the third language Newspaper in India. It continued to be published
till 1888.

• Newspaper like ‘Bharat Mitra’ (1878), ‘Sarsudhanidhi’ (1879), ‘Uchit Wakta’

(1880) and ‘Hindi Bangavasi’ (1890) were published from Calcutta during the last
three decades of 19th century.

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3. 1900-1947

• In 1902, Maulvi Sanaullah Khan started a weekly ‘Watan’, meaning motherland.

• was started in Lahore in 1903.

• In 1913, Shanker Vidyabharti brought out weekly ‘Pratap’ from Kanpur.

• In 1920, the ‘Aaj’ was started in Banaras. Its first editor was Sri Prakasa, a great
freedom fighter who occupied positions of power and prestige in free India.

• In Patna the ‘Desh’, a weekly, was an influential journal and the mouthpiece of the
congress. It was founded by Babu Rajendra Prasad and his friends in 1920.

• In 1924 there were 102 Hindi newspaper; four of them were dailies (Aaj, Banaras,
Swatantra-Calcutta) (Arjun-Delhi) and (Calcutta Samachar-Calcutta).

• Until 1926, Hindi dailies were not financially successful.

• One of the important Hindi dailies to be published from the capital was ‘Hindustan’
was the sister newspaper of the Hindustan Times, started in 1936.

4. 1947-2000
• After Independence Hindi was adopted as the official language of India.

• The ‘Nav Bharat Times’ of the Times of India group started in Delhi in 1950.

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• By 1964 Hindi had the largest number of newspapers among language papers.

5. 2000-2019

• According to registrar of newspapers the total number of publications in Hindi was

27,527 in 2007-08 including 3418 daily newspapers.

• Formation of CMYK colours for printing press.

• Adopted new technologies for printing.

• E-Papers came.+

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History of the Organisation

The Pioneer

The Pioneer was founded in Allahabad in 1865 by George Allen, an Englishman who had had
great success in the tea business in north-east India in the previous decade. It was brought out
three times a week from 1865 to 1869 and daily thereafter. In 1866, a supplement, the Pioneer
Mail, consisting of "48 quarto-size pages," mostly of advertisements, was added to the
publication. In 1872, Alfred Sinnett became the editor of the newspaper. Although he was
later to be known for his interest in theosophy, he oversaw the transformation of e newspaper
to one of exercising great influence in British India. In 1874, the weekly News began to also
feature short stories and travel writings. Author Rudyard Kipling in his early 20s, worked at
the newspaper office in Allahabad as an assistant editor from November 1887 to March 1889.
In July 1933, The Pioneer was sold to a syndicate and moved from Allahabad to Lucknow,
Uttar Pradesh, at which time The Pioneer Mail and India Weekly News ceased publication.

The newspaper remained a primarily Lucknow-based paper until 1990, when it was purchased
by the Thapar Group, under L. M. Thapar, who made it a national newspaper, published from
Delhi, Lucknow, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Dehradun and Ranchi. Thapar
sold the paper to its editor Chandan Mitra in 1998. At that time it had 484 employees. Mitra
announced that he intended to seek other investors in due course rather than to remain the
owner. On October 17, 2010, The Pioneer launched its Hindi version of the newspaper from
Lucknow and in May 2012, the paper inaugurated its Raipur bureau, beginning operations of
its Chhattisgarh edition.

Organisation Logo

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1. Road to safety by Musba Hashmi

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Father-daughter scale new highs by Musba Hashmi

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Pearls of novelty by Musba Hashmi

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‘Had tough time doing yaadon ka idiot box season 1’ (Interview) by
Musba Hashmi

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It’s Mushrooming by Musba Hashmi

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Hierarchy of the organisation

Senior Editor

Meenakshi Rao

Assistant Senior Editor

Shalini Saksena

Sub-Editor cum Reporter

Musba Hashmi

Interns

Rohan Bailwal

Shakti Singh

Muskan Bakshi

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Weekly Report

Week- 1

Day 1. (3rd June 2019)

- Learn how to make sports page.

- Frame the questions for the Interview of ‘Debina Bonnerjee’.
- Took the telephonic Interview of Debina Bonnerjee.
- Try to make the sports page on Quark Xpress software.

Day 2. (4th June 2019)

- Read the sports stories.

- File the Interview of ‘Debina Bonnerjee’
- Made the questions for the Interview of ‘ Daler Mehandi’.
- Made the questions for the Interview of ‘Shantanu Maheshwari’.
- Proofread the news stories and find out the mistakes.
- Learn how to update the Scoreboard of the Match.

Day 3. (5th June 2019)

- Made 10 Headlines on Australia vs West Indies Match.

- Proofread the stories and pages.
- Made sports page.
- Correct the mikstake of the Interview of ‘Debina Bonnnerjee’
- Learn how to adjust the photograph according to the story.

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Day 4. (6th June 2019)

- Went to ‘Radisson Blu hotel’ CP, and took the Interview of Shantanu Maheshwari and
Nityami Shirke for their series ‘Medically Yours’.
- Went back to office.
- Prepare the questions for the Interview of Konkona Sen.
- Took the Telephonic Interview of Konkona Sen.
- Made the sports page.
- Proofread the stories.
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Day 5. ( 7th June 2019)

- Proofread the stories.

- Made the sports page.
- File the Interview of ‘Shantanu Maheshwari’.

Day 6. (8th June 2019)

- Learn how to create the sports page properly.

- File the Interview of Konkona sen and sent the Interview to my head.
- Proofread the story.

Day 7. (9th June 2019)

- Search the Information related to the show ‘Jaat Na Poocho Prem Ki’.
- Prepare the questions for the producer , Kinshuk Vaidya and Sai Ballal for the show
‘Jaat Na Poocho Prem Ki’.
- Proofread the stories.
- Made sports page.

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Week 2

Day 9. ( 11th June 2019)

- Went to Mumbai for the reporting and took the Interview of Kinshuk Vaidya, Sai ballal
and the producer.
- Attent press conference in Orchid Hotel Mumbai.

Day 10. (12th June 2019)

- Coming back to delhi and went to the office.

- Made the questions for the Interview of Sukhwinder Singh and Om prakash member of
V- Unbeatable Group.

Day 11. (13th June 2019)

- Took the Interview of Om prakash member of V- Unbeatable group.

- Proofread the story.

Day 12. (14th June 2019)

- Went to The Lalit for the Interview of the actors of the famous comedy show ‘Jijaji
chhat par hain’.
- Took the Interview of Hiba Nawab and Nikhil Khurana (one on one).
- Took the Interview of Sukhwinder Singh (Telephonic Interview).
- Took the Interview of Sanjay Kohli (producer of the show ‘Jijaji chhat par hain’).
- Made the sports page.

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Day 13. ( 15th June 2019)

- Made the questions for the Interview of Karan V Grover for the show ‘Kahaan hum
kahaan tum’.
- Took the Interview of Karan V grover.
- Made questions for Dipika kakar for the same show.

Day 14. ( 16th June 2019)

- Watched the India vs Pakistan match.

Day 15. (17th June 2019)

- Made questions for Alka Yagnik, Himesh Reshamiya, Javed Ali for the reality show
‘Superstar Singers.
- Read the sports stories.
- Proofread the stories.

Week- 3

Day 17. (19th June 2019)

- Travelled to Mumbai.
- Took the Interview of Alka yagnik, Javed ali, Jyotica Tangri, Sachin Valmiki and
Salman Ali.

Day 18. (20th June 2019)

- Came back to Delhi.

- File the Interview of Sukhwinder Singh and Running story of the show ‘Jijaji Chhat par
hain’.

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 Day 19. (21st June 2019)

- Made the questions for the Interview of Avanti Arya, an MBA by education and
dectorate in Vastu Shastra.
- Took the Interview of Avanti Arya.
- File the Interview of Sai Ballal.

Day 20. ( 22nd June 2019)

- File the Interview of Kinshuk Vaidya for his show ‘Jaat Na Poocho Prem ki’.
- File the Interview of Karan V Grover for his show ‘ Kahhan Hum kahaan Tum’.
- File the Interview of Alka yagnik and Javed Ali for their new reality show ‘Superstar
Singers’.
- Made the sports page on Quark Xpress Software.

Day 21. ( 23rd June 2019)

- Read the stories.

- Proofread the stories.
- Read the Interviews.

Day 22. (24th June 2019)

- Search the Information related to the show ‘Choti Sarrdaarni’.

- Prepare the questions for the Interview of Avinesh Rekhi and Anita Raj.
- Proofread the stories.

Day 23. (25th June 2019)

- Travelled to Amritsar for the Event

- Took the Interview of Avinesh Rekhi and anita Raj.

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Week- 4

Day 25. ( 27th June 2019)

- File the Interview of Avanti Arya.

- Proofread the stories.

Day 26. (28th June 2019)

- Made the questions for the Interview of Vin Rana for his show ‘ Kawach Mahashivratri’
in which he played the character of Ghost.
- Made the question for Zeishan quadri writer of the movie ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’.
- Made the sports page.
- Proofread the stories.

Day 27. (29th June 2019)

- Went to the Event of the show ‘Kawach Mahashivratri’.

- Took the Interview of Vin Rana.
- Came back to the office and proofread the stories.

Day 28. (30th June 2019)

- Prepare the questions for the Interview of Monica Chaudhary Director of the School
of Health science of Ansal University.
- Made the sports page.
- Proofread the stories.

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Day 29. (1st July 2019)

- Went to Gurgaon, for the Event of Ansal University.

- Prepare the questions of Mudit Nayar, Sudhir Pandey for their new show ‘Isharon
Isharon mein’.
- Prepare the questions for the Interview of Mrunal Thakur for her movie ‘Super 30’.
- Read the stories on the page ‘Daily Pioneer’.

Week- 5

31st Day. ( 3rd July)

- Took the Interview of Mrunal Thakur for her Movie ‘Super 30’.
- Made the sports page.
- Proofread the Stories.

32nd Day. ( 4th July 2019)

- Went to the Taj Hotel- Delhi for the Event of Intellectual Property.
- Went back to office, and proofread the stories.

33rd Day. ( 5th July 2019)

- Went to the hotel Parkinn for the Event of the show ‘Bhabhiji Ghar par hain’.
- Went back to the office and read the stories.
- Proofread the stories.

34th Day. (6th July 2019)

- File the story of V- Unbeatable.

- Read the stories on the page ‘Daily Pioneer’.
- Proofread the Stories.

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35th Day. (7th July 2019)

- Took the Interview of Sudhir Pandey for the show ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’.
- File the Interview of Avinesh Rekhi for the show ‘ Choti Sarrdaarni’.
- Proofread the stories.

36th Day. (8th July 2019)

- File the Interview of Mrunal Thakur.

- File the Interview of Anita Raj for the Show ‘ Choti Sarrdaarni’.
- Proofread the Stories.

Week- 6

38th Day. ( 10th July 2019)

- Took the Interview of Mudit Nayar for his show ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’.
- Proofread the stories.
- File the Interview of Vin Rana.
- File the Interview of Monica Chaudhary director of School of Health Science of Ansal
Univerity.

39th Day. (11th July 2019)

- Went to the Le Meridian Hotel- Delhi and took the Interview of arjit Taneja and
Sameeksha Jaiswal for the Show ‘Bahu Begum’.
- File the running story on the show ‘Bahu Begum’.
- File the Interview of Sudhir pandey.
- Proofread the stories.

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40th Day. (12th July 2019)

- Read the stories on the page ‘Daily Pioneer’.

- File the Interview of Mudit Nayar for the show ‘Isharon Isharon Mein’.
- Proofread the stories.

41st Day. (13th July 2019)

- Proofread the stories.

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Bylines

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Conclusion

My experience was very good at The Pioneer. I was mentored by Ms. Musba Hashmi, who
guided me at each step. She always encouraged me to bring new ideas to file good interview.
She was always there to discuss and give suggestions.

I am glad to get the opportunity to work for The Pioneer as they allowed me to take interviews
of celebrities and enhance my communication skills. They also gave me an opportunity to go
to Mumbai for interviews. I loved the experience of taking interviews and interacting with
celebrities.

During my breaks, my mentor always motivated me to do better. She also helped me to make
pages for the newspaper.

My summer training at The Pioneer was a learning experience for me, not only professionaly
but also personally. The internship gave me the opportunity to cover events and also learn how
to write interviews.

What I gained from the internship:

• Confidence
• Writing skills
• Communication Skills

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Internship Letter

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