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issue 11 
july-august 2006
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How about radio broadcasting as a career?
Radio is a most exciting
medium with tremendous scope. And as it is all about sound and visualising through
the mind, this is a career particularly suited to people with visual impairment,
feel Arshad Iqbal and Salima Raza. Giving the example of cricket for the blind,
Arshad notes that people with visual impairment tend to hone their listening
skills to such a great degree that they become far more sensitive to it than
sighted individuals.
According to Salima, one needs a vivid imagination, a capacity to translate thoughts and ideas into words and the cultivation of a good ‘radio’ voice to anchor a show.
There are several institutes that offer Radio Broadcasting at the undergraduate as well as the postgraduate level. Some of these include the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (Delhi), Asian Academy of Film and Television (Noida) and School of Broadcasting and Communication (Mumbai). Armed with a degree from one of these institutions, one has the option of becoming a Disk jockey/announcer, news reporter/anchor and talk radio host, amongst other things. There is also the option of going into broadcast journalism.
Jean Parker is a blind radio journalist based in Pune, who overcame challenges to become successful in her field, and is today working for news agencies in Europe and North America. Assimilating her knowledge and experience of 10 years, she suggests that, in order to succeed in this profession, one must have a sense of curiosity about the world. “I strongly believe in the saying, ‘Where there is a will, there is a way!’ ” she says, and advises upcoming blind radio broadcasters to learn Braille. She can be contacted at radioforever@gmail.com.
For more information about institutes offering Radio Broadcasting, see www.eyeway.org/inform/cr-radio.htm#1
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