Job Opening at Kreata Global Digital Media

Kreata Global Digital Media Services is looking for a copywriter/content writer. They require candidates who can impress with their writing. S/he must be good at coming up with ideas and must have a way with words. Job location is Bangalore. Interested people can send mails to dipin@kreataglobal.com. People with above one year experience in advertising will be given preference, but freshers can also apply. Currently, the company website doesn't have much details either, but I guess there will be updates. Do check the website before sending your CVs.

Job Opening at HarperCollins India

Collins India, the education division of HarperCollins India, is looking for Development Editors for ELT, both freshers and those with 2-5 years' experience in the field. The selected candidate would have to work on school textbooks for English. Those interested can share their CVs at romila.saha@harpercollins-india.com or message her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/romila.saha).

Job opening at POPXo

See
http://www.popxo.com/2015/07/copy-editor-at-popxo/

ABP Recruitment

The Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) group is looking for multi-media journalists for a new 24x7 entertainment/lifestyle website.

This is what they are looking for:

1. Staff writers in Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore (3-6 years’ experience in covering entertainment/fashion).

2. Online/homepage Editors in Mumbai and Kolkata (3-5 years’ experience on any online desk).

3. Social Media Editors in Mumbai and Kolkata (2-4 years’ experience in managing content over social media).

4. Sub-editors in Kolkata (2-4 years’ experience on any English news desk).

5. UX/UI Graphic designers in Kolkata. (2-5 years’ experience)

6. Online Photo Editor in Kolkata. (5-7 years’ experience)

7. Online Video Editor in Kolkata. (5-7 years’ experience)

8. Freelance Contributors in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles. (Experience in entertainment/fashion/lifestyle sector. Please include expected remuneration per article.)

9. Freelance photographers in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata. (Experience in entertainment/fashion/lifestyle sector. Please include expected remuneration per photo.) 

 If you are the one or know someone, please forward resumes and two recent articles/photos/blogs/columns/graphics to sriparnar[AT]gmail.com. Please include your Twitter handle, Facebook page and current CTC.

EditPub 2015: List of Selected Candidates

(arranged alphabetically)

1.                  Abhinanda Datta

2.                  Ahana Chaudhuri

3.                  Aishwarya Chandran

4.                  Anandi Mukherjee

5.                  Anandita Roy Choudhury

6.                  Ananya Dasgupta

7.                  Anwesha Bhattacharya

8.                  Anwesha Chattopadhyay

9.                  Anwesha Dasgupta

10.              Arkaprabha Chakraborty

11.              Deyasini Dasgupta

12.              Fuzail Asar Siddiqi

13.              Ishita Chatterji

14.              Kumar Saurabh

15.              Kush Sengupta

16.              Mayurakshi Sen

17.              Mrittika Ghosh

18.              Neera Majumdar

19.              Oly Saha

20.              Prerita Sen

21.              Priyanka Sen

22.              Ranjamrittika Bhowmik

23.              Sanchita Bysakh

24.              Saptak Choudhury

25.              Saswati Chatterjee

26.              Sayoni Mondal

27.              Sejuti Mukherjee

28.              Semanti Basu

29.              Shafia Parveen

30.              Shaoni Mukherjee

31.              Shreya Das

32.              Shrutakirti Dutta

33.              Smita Mathur

34.              Sohini Kumar

35.              Sreejata Roy

36.              Sreejit Datta

37.              Subhajit Das

38.              Suchetona Pal

39.              Vikash Kumar Tiwari

40.              Vinita Tiwari

Waiting List (In order of merit)

1.      Sauravi Chakraborty

2.      Aarushi Basu

3.      Manjima Biswas

4.      Asmitabha Manna

5.      Sirsha Nandi

6.      Raya Sarkar

7.      Debomita Saha

8.      BhawanaTamang

9.      Sangeeta Sengupta

10.  Tiyas Das

Admission to the course will take place on 9 February 2015 from 5:30 pm in room A2/18 of the Department of English (the venue of the admission test). The course fee of Rs 8,500 is to be paid preferably on the same day or by Thursday 12 February.  The fee may be paid through demand draft payable in Kolkata, made out to the ‘The Registrar, Jadavpur University’.

Unless specified, most EditPub classes will take place at the new classrooms of the School of Cultural Texts and Records. These rooms are located on the top floor of the Rabindra Bhavan building (next to Darshan Bhavan), three minutes' walk from Gate No. 5. 

If you have trouble finding the classrooms, please refer to the map below.

Notice for the 12th Editing and Publishing course

See:
http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/htdocs/upload_files/scroll_info/1421841399.pdf

NOW IN ITS 12TH YEAR

Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing
at the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University

Applications are invited from Honours graduates in any discipline for a PG Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing to be conducted by the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, from February- April 2015. Classes will normally be held four days a week from 6-8 p.m. Applicants have to appear for a screening test on 30 January 2015 (Friday), at 6 p.m., to be held on the first floor of the UG Arts Building.

Course fee: Rs 8,500, to be paid on the day of admission, by cheque or demand draft payable in Kolkata, made out to "The Registrar, Jadavpur University’. 

Applications may be made on plain paper or by email to jueditpub@gmail.com. Paper applications should be submitted to the School of Cultural Texts and Records (5^th floor, Rabindra Bhaban, JU) between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. on working days.

Last date for receipt of applications: 29 January, 2015. 

(For details about previous courses see: http://editpub.blogspot.in/)

After an initial six weeks of common classes, the course will divide into two parallel modules, one specializing in editing and the other in design. Eight to ten students, depending on aptitude, may apply for the design module.

Broad course topics: role of the editor; parts of a book; copy-editing and proofing; documentation and indexing; copyright; office correspondence; overview of publishing; editing with software; book and cover design; commissioning and contracts; production; manufacture; open source philosophy and LaTeX; pagemaking using proprietary software such as Adobe Pagemaker, Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign; Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop; publicity design; business plan analysis; e-publishing; marketing; publicity; distribution; press visits; live projects.

India’s longest running university course in Editing and Publishing has trained hundreds of professionals for some of the leading English-language publishing houses in the country, as well as for other media. Our students have been hired by Pearson Education India, Pearson Education U.K., Oxford University Press, HarperCollins, Rupa, Hachette, Scholastic, Penguin India, Macmillan, Dorling Kindersley, Sage, Orient Blackswan, Anthem, Google, TCS, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Times of India, and the Ananda Bazar Patrika group, among others.

P.S. Those who have applied once need not apply again,

EditPub Admission Test Postponed

The admission test for the PG Certificate Course in Editing and Publishing is postponed due to certain official delays at the university.

Meanwhile, anyone wishing to apply for the course (honours graduates in any discipline) can send a brief cv and a cover letter expressing their willingness to join the course to jueditpub[AT]gmail[DOT]com by the midnight of December 26, 2014 (Friday). Those who've applied earlier, needn't apply again.

The revised date for the admission test (tentatively in early January 2015) will be announced on this blog, as well as appear on the university's website: http://www.jaduniv.edu.in/htdocs/newindex.htm

Any inconvenience caused is deeply regretted.