‘Zoomanians’ make the most of world virtual competitions

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, June 22

The PG Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of Doaba College organised the Zoomia World Online Competition. Dr Simran Sidhu and Prof Priya Chopra along with other faculty facilitated the 150 students for participating in the virtual competitions. For this event, a virtual ‘Zoomia World’ was created by the department in which all participants ‘zoomanians’ were taken on exciting rounds of competitions.

Principal Dr Pardeep Bhandari said in this era of online teaching and learning through platforms like Zoom, the words “Zoomia World” and “Zoomanians”, as coined by the department, would soon be recognised globally.

Kalpana, a second year student of Bachelors in Journalism and Mass Communication, hosted the whole event, enacting as the pilot of this virtual space ship. An online RJying Competition was conducted through Zoom, in which a word was given to participants to show their creativity. The competition was hosted by Tarun, a HNI TV news anchor, an ex-student of the department. Other segments, “Main aur meri dadi” and “Khat ke zariye”, one of the categories of the competition under “Me…Media…Message” were presented by Gurmeet and Meetali, both students of the department.

The selected works from the categories, “Main aur meri dadi” and “Khat ke zariye”, which would be broadcasted in an audio form in future on the community Radio, “Radio Raabta 90.8 MHz”. The students were also encouraged to participate in other competitions, including frozen frame and slogan writing. Gaurav Maini, alias RJ Garry MY FM, an alumnus, answered various questions of eager participants and shared tips related to the Radio Industry and also on ways to attain success as an RJ.

A special workshop on ‘Acting and voice modulation’ was conducted by Prof Deepak Sharma. The entire faculty and students Rashi, Kanika and Aseem made their substantial contribution in conducting the event.