OUTSIDE EVENTS: Two journalism talks on Wed and Thurs
Dear Colleagues:
Two events on Wednesday and Thursday this week downtown… Thanks to Prof. Ann Cooper for arranging both these events.
Social Media Club NYC September 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 from 06:00 PM - 08:30 PM
The Social Media Club is hosting a discussion Wednesday night on bloggers versus journalists – or, to reflect the more collegial tone they hope both sides are beginning to take, bloggers NOT versus journalists. It’s inspired in part by Prof. Ann Cooper’s essay in CJR: http://www.cjr.org/essay/the_bigger_tent_1.php
The organizers have said any students interested in attending should register at the $5 members rate. Details are here:
http://smcnycsept.eventbrite.com/
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THURSDAY: A conversation with Daniel Lak, author of “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower” and BBC reporter who has covered India and Pakistan for 12 years.
All are welcome at this free, public event. Journalists in other cities who wish to contact Lak’s publicist can do so at lauren.dwyer[at]palgrave-usa.com (she will attending the event below).
The New York Chapter of South Asian Journalists Association presents:
A conversation with Daniel Lak, author of “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower” and BBC reporter who has covered India and Pakistan for 12 years.
Thursday, Sept 25, 2008
6:30-8 pm
FREE event, no charge or RSVP required
at TamarindArt Gallery
142 East 39th Street (between Lexington & Third, near Grand Central Terminal)
New York, New York 10016
http://www.tamarindart.com
212-990-9000
program:
6.30-6:45: Networking
6:45-8: Reading, conversation and Q&A
MODERATOR: Sree Sreenivasan, SAJA co-founder and Columbia Journalism professor
ABOUT DANIEL LAK
Daniel Lak is a reporter with the BBC who reported on the Indian sub-continent for twelve years, working from Pakistan and New Delhi. He reported on the rise and fall of the Taliban, Kurdish refugees in Iran, India’s 1999 war with Pakistan over Kashmir, and the hijacking of an Indian aircraft by Islamic militants in what later became known as a dry-run for 9/11. Lak now lives in Toronto reporting for the BBC from the Americas and making documentaries.
ABOUT “India Express: The Future of the New Superpower”
In evocative prose and with street-level reporting, Daniel Lak argues
that India has become a global superpower because of its religion,
caste, politics, and poverty, and not in spite of it. He looks
presciently to the future, and concludes that the strength that
democracy gives it means that India is much better positioned to
sustain its newfound status than China, whose political system is sure
to eventually hinder it.
As an expert who has covered the region for the BBC for the last
twelve years, Lak weaves together his substantive knowledge of Indian
politics, economics, and culture with fascinating stories of everyday
people.
India Express incisively explores the most urgent challenges facing
India in the 21st century:
· The governance and development of the most religiously,
culturally, and linguistically diverse population on the planet
· Crushing poverty–with 300 million on less $2 a day–despite the
rise of the largest middle class the world has ever known
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