Vice-Chancellor opines

It will be fair to say that online journalism caters more to the newly emerging genre of “active users” than “passive consumers” of information. It is also tantamount to the end of the ever-persisting cold war between the media gatekeepers and the PR managers over the as-yet-unadulterated devilish catchphrase of “space constraint”.

             I regard the starting of the Online Punjabi University News Bulletin by the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication as a seminal venture in its futuristic development. It will immensely help its students to stay tuned to one of the latest trends in mass communication. I strongly appeal to the University fraternity to use it as a mainstream newsmedia for a developmental projection of the University affairs.

                                                                         Dr. Jaspal Singh

Moving with the times

This is what we call online newspaper. The media students at the moment are grappling with an unprecedented onslaught of aggressive changes in mass communications, which they need to adapt themselves to. And it has been a tradition with our department to change with the changing times. It has always "tried" to rise to the occasion to provide the students with suitable and befitting opportunities to equip them for facing the challenges galore. The online edition thus, is an addition to the conventional lab journal that the Department has been regularly brining out.

    The Online University News Bulletin is an effort to expose our students to the relatively newer world of newspaper publishing. In addition, it will also help projecting the multi-dimensional developmental trajectory of the University in shape of activities and achievements, while keeping the University's inner and outer publics posted with much sought-after information on various fronts

Dr. Gurmeet Maan