The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia

Keya Acharya; Frederick Noronha

doi:10.4135/9788132107958

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The Green Pen: Environmental Journalism in India and South Asia

Edited by:
Keya Acharya
&
Frederick Noronha
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
- Publication year: 2010
- Online pub date: June 19, 2012
Discipline: Business & Management
Subject: South Asia Studies, Physical Geography (general), Journalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4135/9788132107958
Keywords:
environmental journalism, India, journalism, journalists, tsunamis, water, wildlife
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- Print ISBN:9788132103011
- Online ISBN:9788132107958
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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.

Front Matter
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
Chapters
- Section One: Environmental Journalism and Environmental Reporting
- Chapter 1: Environment Stories, among the Most Challenging
- Chapter 2: This Separate Category
- Chapter 3: Environmental Journalism at the Time of Economic Liberalisation
- Chapter 4: Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalisation
- Chapter 5: The Most Serious News
- Chapter 6: Writing about the Birds and the Bees
- Chapter 7: My Words, It's Still Fun!
- Chapter 8: Problems of Aesthetics and Misplaced Altruism: Media and Environment in Northeast India
- Chapter 9: Good Journalism, That's all
- Chapter 10: Media is No Longer the Fourth Estate
- Chapter 11: Lost in the Smog
- Chapter 12: Tourism and Beyond: Does Environmental Journalism Matter?
- Chapter 13: Environment Journalism, Maldivian Style
- Chapter 14: Uphill and Downstream in Pakistan
- Section Two: Science, Health and the Environment
- Chapter 15: Good Science, Environment Journalism and the Barriers to It!
- Chapter 16: Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues
- Section Three: Wildlife Journalism
- Chapter 17: At the End of a Dark Tunnel, a Faint Light
- Chapter 18: Tiger Defends the Biodiversity
- Section Four: Environment and Water
- Chapter 19: The Media's Role in Water and Sanitation
- Chapter 20: Water Journalism Warrants Better Attention
- Section Five: Reporting on Disasters
- Chapter 21: Dispatches from the Frontline: Making of The Greenbelt Reports
- Chapter 22: Floods: Blacked Out but Real
- Chapter 23: Turbulence: How Volunteers Cyber-Responded to a Tsunami
- Section Six: Photojournalism
- Chapter 24: Stop all the Clocks! Beyond Text, Looking at the Pics
- Chapter 25: What Does One Photograph Do to Depict a Flood?
- Chapter 26: It was a Long Journey
- Section Seven: Communicating on the Environment
- Chapter 27: Paradigm Shift in Agricultural Communication
- Chapter 28: A ‘Global City’ vs the Environment
- Chapter 29: Wild Panther in Miramar? Goa on the Verge of Environmental Hara-Kiri
- Section Eight: Gender and Environment
- Chapter 30: Reporting Gender and Environment: Beyond Tokenism
- Section Nine: Environmental Movements
- Chapter 31: The Grass is Greener This Side
- Chapter 32: The Chipko and Appiko Movements
- Section Ten: An Anil Agarwal Reader
- Chapter 33: Media Games
- Chapter 34: Saying it with Pictures
- Chapter 35: No Screen Presence
Back Matter
- About the Editors and Contributors

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