News Training - Radio Today

Training, skill transfer and placement assistance. REMEMBER: ONLY THOSE WHO THEMSELVES HAVE SKILL CAN TRANSFER SKILL . INTRODUCTION: Radio Today Media Academy is a very serious well established wing of Radio Today the first and biggest private radio in Bangladesh. It is a center of excellence where the top successes among all the T.V channels and radios, in News Presentation, Live Reporting, Interviewing, and RJing are seriously transferring their skills to media aspirants. First- language speakers of English and Bangla are teaching spoken English/ Bangla. These are PROGRAMS for your enhancement---not ordinary training courses. PROGRAMS

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Skill Transfer in News Presentation. Objective: At the end of the program you will be able to face an audition. 10 week program (48 hours). Two days a week, Fridays & Saturdays 4pm to 7:30pm. Equipment: News studio, Auto –prompter, Camera, Monitor, Microphone, Lights

NAFEES IMTIAZUDDIN Executive Director Radio Today Media Academy Cell: +8801713453260 E-mail: [email protected] Nafees Imtiazuddin, top grade English News Presenter on Bangladesh Television (BTV) since 1976. Host of Development Dialogue on BTV and BTV World. Radio outdoor broadcaster on Bangladesh Betar from 1979 to 1989 doing Radio Newsreel. Career airline executive he was Director Planning and before that Director Customer Service of Biman Bangladesh Airlines. Nafees Imtiazuddin’s communications competencies include a very high level of writing skills, in both creative and formal communications.

34, Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Awal Centre (13th Floor), Banani, Dhaka-1213, Bangladesh Phone: (880)-2-982-1026, 01770-181185, 01956-951610 and Fax: (880) 2 982 1486 E-mail: [email protected]

Content: • Individual pronunciation and speech problem identification. • Corrective pronunciation. • Speech therapy. • Voice culture. • Understanding the news. • News sense. • Presentation skills. • Facing the camera. • Using the microphone. • Make- up for screen test.

Who should attend: Anybody interested in broadcast media and journalism. University graduates, TV or radio reporter, print media journalists or those studying in mass communications and journalism. Methodology: • Reading test for problem identification. • Problem resolution through correct vocal organ positioning. • Voice exercise. • Facial exercise. • Speech delivery using microphone. • Voice projection. • Reading off the auto prompter. • Recording. • Playback. • Make-up /grooming

Fourteen of his articles have been published in newspapers and magazines including a full-page story “Capt Cox’s Bazar” in the Daily Star. He has created the storyboard, written the shooting script, commentary and done the voice over for more than 50 documentary/ infotainment films. Regular MC at Honorable President and Honorable Prime Minister’s State Functions Since 1984. Visiting Professor of Communications at the School of Business, University of Liberal Arts.

Chowdhury Sama (Ntv) Chowdhury Sama,One of the top Bangla News Presenters,is the role-model for other news aspirants. She is one of the leading media personalities who have shown the way to ‘conversational style’ news presentation in this country over the past 7/8 years. Sama in a ‘natural’ communicator, combining voice modulation skills with news-sense and confidence. She is a recognized trainer in the media world. She is an MBA from ULAB. Sama is gifted with a voice that makes heads turn around to look. An interviewer who asks the right questions, her effervescent personality makes her a sought-after host. Chowdhury Sama teaches regularly at Radio Today Media Academy.

Rumana Yesmin (Ntv) Rumana Yesmin Chowdhury of NTV fame has been one of the top Bangla News Presenters for the past 7/8 years. She has mastered the art of presenting the news in a naturally fluent conversational style, which is the most effective for one-shot communication. Her voice modulation and enunciation

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understanding for the audience. Rumana is an MBA, with Masters and Hons in English.Her perfect Bangla is matched by very good English as well. Rumana Yesmin Chowdhury is a regular teacher at Radio Today Media Academy.

Rehnuma Kamal (Btv) Rehnuma Kamal Ahmed is a News Presenter on Bangladesh Television, BTV World, Bangladesh Betar and BBC Bangla and has been awarded the Best News Presenter Award in 2005 and 2010. That is the kind of effective communication skill that she brings to the studio. Rehnuma’s talents also include being ‘host’ of different magazine and educational programs on BTV and Betar. She has been trained in News Presentation and is part of the quality improvement program on electronic media. Rehnuma teaches regularly at Radio Today Media Academy and also helps to organize training programs run by the Academy.

Kaniz Fatema Lopa Kaniz Fatema Lopa has exploded on the News and Interviewing scene on the major TV channels, NTV and ETV. She is one of the newcomers who have made it big in a very competitive environment. She has combined the natural communication style with speed and life which makes her a very effective presenter. She is a product of Dhaka University with Hons and Masters in Political Science, which helps her to teach on political reporting or interviewing. Lopa teaches News Presentation and interviewing courses at the Radio Today Media Academy.
