NEWSPAPER
The very first instance of a newspaper was commissioned by Julius Caesar in 59BC, and it was a daily list of announcements that was carved into metal or stone and displayed publically.
FILM
In 1929, Janet Gaynor became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and actually won it for her roles in three movies simultaneously: Seventh Heaven, Sunrise, and Street Angel. Emil Jennings was the first man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for both The Way of the Flesh and The Last Command The Academy later changed their rules to allow a person to win a single award for only one movie at a time.
RADIO
The word ‘broadcasting’, referring to radio transmissions, was originally an agricultural term for the wide scattering of seeds.
TELEVISION
The inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.”
– Philo T Farnsworth.
Legend of Department of Mass Communication
Donation of Prof. Wimal Dissanayaka’s Personal Book Collection to the Kelaniya University Library
Prof. Wimal Dissanayake’s personal book collection was donated to the library of the University of Kelaniya on the 25th of June 2019 at the Auditorium of
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A Shramadhana Campaign
A Shramadhana Campaign organized by the students of Public Relations and Media Management degree program of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya was held on the 5th
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