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Media is the message

For more than six decades, IIMC has been grooming young media professionals. The training now also includes new media technologies.

Last year, when 24-year-old Ashish Kumar, a resident of Basti in Uttar Pradesh, got admission in Hindi journalism course at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in Delhi, it was a dream come true for him. "Being trained by professionals from the media industry was a great experience," he says about the course. Ashish had barely completed the training when he was offered a job by Navbharat Times of the Times Group with an annual pay package of Rs 3,75,000.

Aarti, 26, another student of Hindi journalism, says, "The institute focuses

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