Passion and ability are ideally the factors that are to determine the career path to be trodden. However, in India, where middle-class mentality reigns, it is the market value of a job that determines the line of career chosen.The average man’s day commences with a cup of tea in one hand and a newspaper in the other. Lunch, tea and dinner is more often than not consumed to the accompaniment of the mayhem on a news channel. It is what the media presents that provides fodder for men’s discussions at a social gathering. Yet, being an active part of journalism in India is looked down upon by the masses.Since men are to the breadwinners in the Indian society, a considerable majority of boys are advised to flirt with science for 4 years, court commerce for 2 years, and then marry a job that comes with an impressive pay check. Journalism, a field with comparatively smaller bank accounts, is an option that usually does not feature in any person’s life plan unless their family is already actively involved in the media, or in politics.It is indeed shameful that even those acquainted with the Indian media opine that a woman can’t catch a juicy scoop unless she sleeps with an influential benefactor. And this is an incredibly incorrect, but sadly rife, notion. It is thus hardly surprising that few girls are encouraged to take up mass communication.The field of journalism is still alive in India because the educated elite recognize that true journalism is a respectable field – one that serves the society though controversial methods are sometimes employed in an attempt to survive.There are but 3 renowned colleges in Hyderabad churning out quality journalists.

And the students of these institutions enjoy extensive internship opportunities as the demand for productive journalists is on the rise. National papers such as The Hindu and The Times Of India welcome interns, as do local broadsheets like Eenadu.Electronic media, hailed as the fertile ground of the industry, is proving to be the most alluring flower towards which the hive is buzzing. Television channels and online portals that convey au courant news are among the foremost employers of fresh talent.Various genres of writing, and other forms of presentation of information may be sampled by taking up the appropriate journalism internship. Depending upon the workplace, interns may or may not be paid for their efforts, for an internship is essentially an opportunity for the student to find his/her niche, and to test the waters before diving in head-first.Opportunity comes knocking, and not just once as propounded by the proverb. All that a student needs to do is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and landing a nurturing journalism internship in Hyderabad is a cakewalk.Media houses, both established and new fangled, are presently seeking content contributors. And as journalism internships in India are a win-win affair, noobz stand to benefit from this mushrooming industry. That there is no dearth of employers in the mass communication industry is a fact that is yet to find a foothold in the society.