Do We Need a New Journalism in the Era of Corporate Media? Telling the Stories of Climate, Farm Distress, Inequality and Justice
Thursday, 07 March 2024 | 15:00 to 17:00 EST | Room 140, HNES Building, Keele campus, 91亚色 | Hybrid
With P. Sainath
P. Sainath is the founder-editor of the People鈥檚 Archive of Rural India (PARI). He has served as a journalist, reporter, rural affairs editor, and deputy chief editor of periodicals like聽The Hindu,听Blitz听补苍诲听The Daily. He has won over 60 national and international awards including the Fukuoka Grand Prize (2021), the World Media Summit Award (2014), the Ramon Magsaysay Award (2007), Amnesty International鈥檚 Global Human Rights Reporting Prize, and the Ramnath Goenka award. His book聽Everybody Loves a Good Drought聽(1996) is now in its 58th reprint.聽The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom聽(2022) is his latest publication.
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This Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Seminar Series event is co-presented by the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research as part of the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research as part of the Climate Dystopias in Asia series.
P. Sainath will also discuss his new book, The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom, at an in-person event on 08 March at 91亚色.
