Tuesday, January 27, 2009

CONTACT US

Media 4 Change
SLAP

E-mail: prabalbhardwaj@gmail.com
slap.therightone@gmail.com
wheelsoffortune.smrithin@gmail.com


Mobile: +91-9930330779 (Prabal)
+91-9028288205 (Smritin)



YOU CAN ALSO JOIN US AT
www.media4change.weebly.com
www.media4change-slap.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=28444751950
www.orkut.co.in/Main#Community.aspx?cmm=22277213
www.changemakers.net/user/40126
www.youthventureindia.blogspot.com/2008/12/prabal-bhardwaj-21-mumbai.html www.bhardwajprabal2008.blogspot.com
www.mamifest2008.blogspot.com
www.changemakers.net/en-us/node/16675

What is SLAP?

SLAP is a mouthpiece of Media 4 Change. Through SLAP, we are turning our dreams into reality. Designed to be a youth shout box, this tabloid believes in "slapping", i.e., voicing our opinion against everything that is not quite right.

Keeping a track on 'Roz marah ki Baatein', we strive to make you think twice as you hop on. We hope to stir up young minds and create a difference. We thrive to stand out and be heard.
Apart from a look at the normal news that the regulars provide, this newsletter acts as a representative of the youth in every way possible. It is a social youth newsletter providing the right blend of youth culture and social structure of today's times. A place to be vocal by knowing what is right and raising our voice against what is wrong. We, here, believe in making a difference and to stand apart from the rest.

First of all, initiating a project like Media 4 Change, needs entrepreneurship skills. It took us more then 6 months in just conceptualizing the project and convincing other people. But we did it. Now around 2000 people including Media professional and media students are part of the project. About Media 4 Change, we have already described above.

Six months back we came up with the idea of starting our newsletter. Till now, we have two successful monthly editions of SLAP, our newsletter. Third edition is also coming shortly. Both the times, we came up with 1000 copies per month and distributed across media related institutions. Now there are 55 media students who are fully devoted to the project.

Work Done so far:
 Establishment of SLAP (Circulation – 1000, Pages-4)
 Connect media students – 500
 Connect media professionals – 50
 Successfully part of a campaign – 1 (Based on social issue among youth)
 initiated the link (chain) of - Common man – Social worker – NGO – Media Activists – Media 4 Change – Media Personalities – Media Houses.

Media is going to be super power in coming 10 years. Ignorance is not a solution. This statement has forced so many people to join the campaign.


SLAP-An initiative by a few BMM students to do something that clicks in a flash…Apart from a look at the normal news that the regulars provide, this manuscript acts as a representative of the Youth in every way possible...A social Youth newspaper providing the right blend of Youth culture and social structure of today’s times.
A place to be vocal by knowing what is right and showing what is wrong.

As a youth Venture, we welcome each one of you to be a part of this newspaper in whatever way you can right from day one.

You can either be a part of the editorial team, the designing team, the sponsorship team or the pr and promotion team. We are also looking out for sponsorships and funds. If any one amongst you can help us out in anyway possible it would make a huge difference to all of us. Interested candidates can help us to in all the above requirements.

What we require is someone who has a passion to work with a team and be a bit different from what the normal approach of regular newspaper is like. We here believe in creating a difference to stand apart from the rest. Our work will be distributed to the other top BMM colleges in the city and from there on our real journey begins. So Please, feel free to join us anytime.


With the boom in the media field, we seem to be running out of quality stories happening around town and ideas about making a change in the existing format of providing news & putting views in the world around us.
At such times we need some innovative people like you all to step forward and share your views and dues with our team.

Your smallest of suggestions may make a huge difference in the way we perceive things and are moving forward with our venture....hope you would take some time out and give us ur bites....


Last thing, we welcome you to be part of this campaign. Please Support us.

What is Media 4 Change?

We have started a project-cum-campaign, which will bring about a social change in the media. The media has the capability to impact and change society. This is best done through its social coverage and continuous investigative reporting.

The first baby step we have taken towards our goal is by launching our very own newsletter, SLAP, which is a mirror of our ideas, the ideas of the young and daring minds.

You can have a look of our newsletter on
www.media4change-slap.blogspot.com

So the goals of our venture are:
 Sensitizing media students to be more responsible about their work in the future.
 Media should become more socially responsible.
 Encouraging common people to react on content of media, rather than just reading and viewing the content.
 Connecting a link like: Common man – Social worker – NGO – Media Activists – Media 4 Change – Media Personalities – Media Houses.

Here are some of the reasons why we believe in it.

Despite being a country where more than half of the population lives in the villages, our newspapers & news channels surprisingly have little news coverage of them or for them. Is this because this important segment is not buying newspapers or rather the products which appear in the newspaper? We of course agree and do not say that rural news is the only kind of news to be covered. Yet we do firmly believe in a society where everybody has a role in the functioning and happenings of the society, the media has this additional responsibility; which is missing.

With the boom in the media and rise in the number of newspapers, we seem to be running out of quality stories happening around town and ideas about making a change in the existing format of providing news & putting views in the world around us.

So we, Media students & Young people understood our responsibility towards the society. And that’s why we have chosen this as our venture idea.

Whatever social change we think about in the media is all thanks to our awareness about the impact of the media. We are sure any awareness brought about in media students will result in more responsible media persons, in the future. And it is this simple fact, that if one media person is socially aware, he can bring the social change among a large number of people in society.

Another tendency generally seen in society, is just talking about the media. Everyone believes that media is going the wrong way; but no one does anything about it. So the sense of belongingness and the power to react need to develop. And as soon that develops, the media will be inclined towards social change.