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, York University | Hybrid
With P. Sainath
P. Sainath is the founder-editor of the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI). He has served as a journalist, reporter, rural affairs editor, and deputy chief editor of periodicals like The Hindu, Blitz and 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’s Global Human Rights Reporting Prize, and the Ramnath Goenka award. His book Everybody Loves a Good Drought (1996) is now in its 58th reprint. The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom (2022) is his latest publication.
This Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Seminar Series event is co-presented by the York Centre for Asian Research as part of the York 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 York University. More details at this link.
