Dharam Shourie, a veteran US-based journalist and UN correspondent for India's largest wire service, the Press Trust of India, has died. He was 72. Read more in SAJAforum.
Tips for nonprofits looking to get more media exposure. Public relations is not a focus of SAJA, but we're interested in improving communications between community groups and the media.
A listing of full-time correspondents and producers for North American media outlets in South Asia. Most U.S. correspondents cover the Subcontinent from their stations in New Delhi, unless otherwise specified. Business publications are increasingly posting people in Mumbai as well.
This guide is intended to help journalists better understand South Asia. This is a work in progress - please send comments, corrections, additions to our editor: saja[at]columbia.edu (subject line="self-study guide"). Last updated: March 11, 2002.
The Stylebook we've assembled here is not so much a reference work as it is as a reminder--a reminder to journalists that covering the disparate South Asian communities challenges us to take our reporting and editing skills a step further.
In the last week of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina became the worst natural disaster in U.S. history. What South Asians are doing to help + story ideas. Compiled by Sreenath Sreenivasan and S. Mitra Kalita, with input from around the globe.