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Indian journalism needs quality wars, not ad wars
Bloomberg news service on Feb. 1 carried a trenchant analysis byChandrahas Choudhury of the ad war being prosecuted by The Hindu andThe Times of India, which kicked off when the former mounted a print and TV campaign that wittily accused the latter of being low-brow. Choudhury, a novelist and literary critic who is also fiction and poetry editor of The Caravan, deftly skewered the vanities of both newspapers and shone a cruel light on the shortcomings of Indian print journalism. His article prompted a hugely positive online response, with users of Twitter and Facebook describing it as “fantastic,” “great,” “brilliant,” and “amazing,” to name a few of the superlatives that were bandied about |
Wear your biases on your sleeve
as badges of pride
Mac McClelland, a human rights reporter for the U.S. liberal political magazine Mother Jones, is a “strict-grammar lover” and a “Burma-book-writer extraordinaire,” according
to her tongue-in-cheek Twitter bio. Her international coverage includes reports from exotic locations including Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Thailand, and Uganda. McClelland’s coverage of the BP oil spill won her many awards, including the Sidney Award and Excellence in Journalism Awards from the Northern California Chapter of the Society
of Professional Journalists. She is the author of “For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question:
A Story from Burma's Never-Ending War.” |
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The end of the world as we know it?
The existential threats posed by climate change, pollution and environmental degradation have seen the emergence of environmental journalism, a field in which Jonathan Watts is a rising star. Watts is Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian and a former president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China and vice president of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan. |
Reasons to be cheerful?
Ginko Kobayashi worked in Japan from 1991 to 2002 as a reporter and business editor at The Daily Yomiuri, an English-language newspaper published by The Yomiuri Shimbun. Ginko shared insights about the SoE conference and the prospects for the global newspaper industry in an email interview with IIJNM Visiting Professor Mark Austin. |
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The brave new world of multimedia journalism
Justin McCurry, Japan correspondent of The Guardian newspaper, a pioneer in online journalism, recently attended a training course at the newspaper’s head office in London designed to expand his multimedia competencies. In this email interview, IIJNM students asked McCurry about his personal experiences working as a multimedia journalist and how sees the future of this new field. |
A peep behind the facade of a Potemkin village
Irish journalist David McNeill recently visited the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, ostensibly to report on a film festival there, but with the real intention of trying to gain some insight into the expected handover of power from “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il to his son Kim Jong-un. But McNeill and Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor of The Times, ran into trouble after giving their local minder the slip and attempting to photograph an illegal street market. In this email interview with IIJNM students, McNeill talks about his brush with the authorities in the totalitarian state. |
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How reporters, news organizations can leverage social media
As part of their recent classes on how journalists can use social media for purposes including newsgathering, research, interviewing, crowdsourcing and publishing, IIJNM Multimedia students conducted an e-mail interview with Devin T. Stewart, editor of Policy Innovations, an online magazine published by The Carnegie Council that promotes ethics in globalization. Following are excerpts of the interview.
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