Key Objectives

The project is aimed at facilitating professional development in the Indian media by implementing a bespoke blended learning programme in four target regions.

The programme will combine online learning courses and interactive forums with traditional face-to-face tuition, offering a total of 120 working journalists and media managers a sustained development cycle over 12 months.

Training will focus on improving media coverage of social issues and on encouraging participatory programming/reporting which connects with disadvantaged identity groups.

Activities will be channeled through two in-country training centres: the Indian Institute for Journalism and New Media (Bangalore) and the Indian Institute for Mass Communications (Delhi).

By the end of the project, these partners will have gained both the skills and the tools (including local ownership of the BBC’s online learning system, iLearn) to run blended learning programmes of their own.