NETWORK 18 signs MoU with St Stephen’s College

NETWORK 18 signs MoU with 

St Stephen’s College 

to promote inclusivity in education

~Umesh Upadhyay, President News, 

Network18 &ValsonThampu, Principal of 

St Stephen’s College signed the MoU 

for Citizenship & Cultural Richness Certificate Course ~

New Delhi, March 9, 15: Network 18, promoter of popular news brands CNN-IBN and IBN7, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with St Stephen’s College.

The MoU will further the aim of educational inclusivity. As part of this initiative, Stephen’s College will offer a Certificate Course in “Citizenship & Cultural Richness”.

Under the Course, St Stephen’s College will hold weekly classes conducted by its regular faculty and distinguished alumni including top serving and retired judges, bureaucrats and renowned academicians.

The lecture content will be hosted across the digital and social media platforms of Network18 (ibnlive.com & ibnkhabar.com) and St Stephen’s College (www.ststephens.edu).

Inaugurating the unique Course here last Saturday, Justice Madan B Lokur, Supreme Court Judge, said, “This Course is ready to reach out to people to make them better citizens and to help the society.”

Lauding the joint initiative, Valson Thampu, Principal, St Stephen’s College, Delhi, said, “The very purpose of the Course is to enable students and citizens to live a rich life and to become responsible citizens. I am delighted that Network 18, particularly CNN-IBN has gladly come forward to support this initiative, which is a signal of the robustness of media.”  

Speaking at the launch event, Umesh Upadhyay, President, News, Network 18 said, “We will help in every way possible to promote this Course and make this an initiative that will make our youth into responsible citizens, who contribute to the growth of this country. We are grateful to St Stephen’s for partnering us on this mission to help make media more responsible and conscientious.”

CNN-IBN and IBN7 will align their unique award winning Citizen Journalist Show with the Course offered under the joint initiative.  The idea is to encourage the citizens enrolled in the course to become Citizen Journalists and highlight issues and problems around them as faced by the common man.

Under its Media Institute Initiative (MII), Network18 engages with top academic institutions across the country and abroad through a structured and collaborative approach. The MII endeavor is aimed at deepening the academia-industry interface through seminars, internships, guest lectures and other interventions for sector specific capability enhancement.

ABOUT TV18

The Network18 Group is a media and entertainment company with interests in television, internet, films, e-commerce, magazines, mobile content and allied businesses. Through its subsidiary ‘TV18 Broadcast Ltd.’ [BSE: 532800, NSE: TV18BRDCST], the group operates news channels - CNBC-TV18, CNBC Awaaz, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat (a Marathi regional news channel in partnership with the Lokmat group). TV18 also operates a joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which houses a portfolio of popular entertainment channels – Colors, Colors HD,MTV, SONIC, Comedy Central, VH1, Nick. Nick Jr. and Nick Teen - and Viacom18 Motion Pictures, the group’s filmed entertainment business. TV18 has also forayed into the Indian factual entertainment space through A+E Networks | TV18 (a joint venture between A+E Networks and TV18 Broadcast) and operates HistoryTV18. TV18 and Viacom18 have also formed a strategic joint venture called IndiaCast, a multi-platform ‘content asset monetization’ entity mandated to drive domestic and international channels distribution, placement services and content syndication for the bouquet of channels from TV18, Viacom18 and other broadcasters. For more information, please log on to www.network18online.com