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This is the first book on environmental journalism in South Asia. It provides an important benchmark for journalism in the region as well as an excellent source of material for the future evolution of environmental journalism. This is a collection of essays by prominent Indian and South Asian environmental journalists. Apart from essays from India, there are contributions from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Maldives. The essays examine this specialization of journalism both historically and in the present.
Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalisation
Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalisation
In 2002, I was working as a correspondent specialising in reporting on environment, agriculture and development in the Chennai news bureau of The Hindu Business Line newspaper. I got a call from senior journalist and the President of the Forum of Environment Journalists of India (FEJI), Darryl D'Monte, who asked me if I could help organise a media workshop on water and sanitation at the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF). Darryl had already requested the partnership of Prof. M.S. Swaminathan for the workshop, and there was sponsorship for the workshop from the World Bank's India office. I was keen to prove that my involvement with FEJI was not a sleeping membership, and worked in partnership ...