One of the nicer aspects of this year's visit to St. Xavier's is the positive reinforcement that our prior visit really paid off. A check of that roster shows that nine of the 34 students and professionals in that class are now employed as journalists, including one in England. Another nine are currently enrolled in masters' degree programs that should lead to careers in journalism. Few Indian colleges offer straight journalism programs. Generally students enroll in a masters' of English class to pursue a journalism degree.
Enrolled in this year's class is a younger brother to one of the attendees at the last Backpack Journalism workshop. Zubin Gomes is this year's student (he's on the left in the photo of the two brothers cutting up outside the St. Xavier Mac Lab) while Boris Gomes is a student of design hoping for a future in the media. He cut his design teeth in the 2009-2010 class.
Boris is only one of seven students from the former class to visit. Two of note are Aman Shaw, who is a reporter for Thompson-Reuter's news service and Aditi Shishoo who is public relations manager for Harley Davidson in Ahmanabad.
It's good to see that our training helped shape these students into good producers of media.
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