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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.
Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues
Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues
A decade ago, during the last global financial crisis, economists used the word ‘contagion’, to describe troubles that began in a faraway country, eventually spreading to much bigger ones, and then came home to roost.
Today, with the global and the local inevitably melding together, the analogy could apply equally to the world of diseases. For the media, the ‘glocal’ story is among the most exciting, and challenging.
One of the most telling illustrations of this emerging trend comes from an Italian village, barely known outside the country's borders. In the summer of 2007, Castiglione di Cervia, a village in northern Italy, acquired international infamy because of its dubious distinction of playing ...