The green pen : environmental journalism in India and South Asia / edited by Keya Acharya, Frederick Noronha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acharya, Keya.

Noronha, Frederick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental protection--Press coverage--India.

Environmental protection.

Environmental protection--Press coverage--South Asia.

Environmental health--Press coverage--India.

Environmental health.

Environmental health--Press coverage--South Asia.

Mass media and the environment--India.

Mass media and the environment.

Mass media and the environment--South Asia.

Environmental health--Press coverage.

Environmental protection--Press coverage.

South Asia.

India.

Physical Description:

xv, 303 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 2010.

Summary:

This collection of essays by some of the most prominent environmental journalists in India and South Asia gives deep insights into their profession and its need and relevance in society. It looks at this 'specialisation' of journalism both in the past and the present. Underlying almost all the essays is the changing nature of media in the region and the dilemmas facing environmental journalists. The varied background of the writers ensures the showcasing of a wide range of realities and experiences from the field. Contributions include essays by Darryl D'Monte, the late Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, among others. This is the first book of its kind on environmental journalism, which would be an excellent resource to aid the future evolution of the enterprise in the region. Apart from essays from India, there are contributions from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Maldives. The book will interest a wide readership, any informed reader, besides journalists and environmentalists. Book jacket.

Contents:

Environmental journalism and environmental reporting. Environment stories, among the most challenging / Lyla Bavadam

This separate category / Kunda Dixit

Environmental journalism at the time of economic liberalisation / Richard Mahapatra

Environmental journalism since economic liberalization / S. Gopikrishna Warrier

The most serious news / Sunita Narain

Writing about the birds and the bees / Keya Acharya

My words, it's still fun! / Sudhirendar Sharma

Problems of aesthetics and misplaced altruism: media and environment in northeast India / Kazimuddin (Kazu) Ahmed

Good journalism, that's all / Kalpana Sharma

Media is no longer the fourth estate / Devinder Sharma

Lost in the smog / Dionne Bunsha

Tourism and beyond: does environmental journalism matter? / Frederick Noronha

Environment journalism, Maldivian style / Ahmed Zaki Nafiz

Uphill and downstream in Pakistan / Beena Sarwar

Science, health and the environment. Good science, environment journalism and the barriers to it! / Pallava Bagla

Environment, exotic diseases and the media: emerging issues / Patralekha Chatterjee

Wildlife journalism. At the end of a dark tunnel, a faint light / Nirmal Ghosh

Tiger defends the biodiversity / Malini Shankar

Environment and water. The media's role in water and sanitation / Sahana Singh

Water journalism warrants better attention / Shree Padre

Reporting on disasters. Dispatches from the frontline: the making of the greenbelt reports / Nalaka Gunawardene and Manori Wijesekera

Floods: blacked out but real / Sunita Narain

Turbulence: how volunteers cyber-responded to a tsunami / Peter Griffin

Photojournalism. Stop all the clocks! beyond text, looking at the pics / Max Martin

What does one photograph do to depict a flood? / Shahidul Alam

It was a long journey / Nandan Saxena

Communicating on the environment. Paradigm shift in agricultural communication / Shivaram Pailoor

A "global city" vs the environment / Ardeshir Cowasjee

Wild panther in Miramar? Goa on the verge of environmental hara-kiri / Nandkumar Kamat

Gender and environment. Reporting gender and environment: beyond tokenism / Laxmi Murthy

Environmental movements. The grass is greener this side / Meena Menon

The Chipko and Appiko movements / Pandurang Hegde

An Anil Agarwal reader. Media games / Anil Agarwal

Saying it with pictures / Anil Agarwal

No screen presence / Anil Agarwal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788132103011

8132103017

OCLC:

464584988

Publisher Number:

99937299110