The green pen environmental journalism in India and South Asia (Sage Publications, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references
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
This collection of essays by some of the most prominent environmental journalists in Indian 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 Sunit