 Dr.
Abraham George is widely known for his highly acclaimed
recent book, India Untouched: The Forgotten Face of Rural
Poverty. Currently he is Chairman of eMedexOnline LLC, a
medical diagnostic software company in New Jersey, USA. Formerly,
he was a Vice-Chairman at SunGard Data Systems, a U.S. Fortune
500 computer software company. Between 1976 and 1998, he was
Chairman and CEO of Multinational Computer Models, Inc. (MCM),
a company he founded, and a Managing Director at Credit Suisse
First Boston, a global investment bank.
In 1995,
George founded The George Foundation (TGF), a non-profit organization
based in Bangalore, India, that is dedicated to the welfare
of economically and socially disadvantaged people. His Foundation
has initiated several projects in poverty alleviation, education,
health, environment and the arts, which are described in the
web site www.tgfworld.org.
His keen interest in promoting democratic institutions and
values led to the creation of the Indian Institute of Journalism
& New Media (IIJNM).
George
holds an MBA, MS and PhD in business administration from the
Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the author
of three other books and numerous publications in the field
of international finance, and edited a major publication on
"Lead Poisoning: Prevention & Treatment".
George
is the founder and dean of IIJNM. He has co-designed and lectured
on several areas -- International News, Economic Development
and Business & Financial Reporting
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 Kanchan Kaur, Vice Dean: A stint at the University of Florida’s Institute on Teaching Digital Journalism turned this die-hard print-medium journalist into a believer in the web. She has since driven IIJNM’s emphasis on Multimedia. IIJNM now runs a full-fledged stream in Multimedia, and a course in Convergence; she teaches the latter.
She started life in journalism by reporting the city of Bangalore for various small newspapers. She joined the Indian Express in Delhi for a very brief period before returning to Bangalore to work for the Deccan Herald. She has, in about two decades in journalism, worked, among other newspapers, in The Gulf News, too. She has covered a gamut of topics—from crime to art profiles. As a crime reporter, she was known for digging out the unusual. Her features in the Gulf News' weekly magazine Friday, more often than not, became cover stories.
Teaching came to her in the early 90's. From the Ecumenical Christian Centre's residential programme in journalism to the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, she has had a varied teaching experience. She also stood in as Dean for nearly two academic years at the Sri Sri Centre for Media Studies. Apart from journalism, she has taught Written Analytical Skills at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has worked on several corporate training assignments.
At IIJNM she teaches students news gathering, reporting and writing skills. She also offers an elective on Covering Arts and Culture in the second semester.
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 Girish
Bhadri is an Associate Professor for media applications
at IIJNM. He started his career with an advertising agency
and later worked for the Books for Change at ActionAid
as a Production Head, print and web.
Girish
is proficient in various application software which include:
QuarkXPress, PageMaker, Photoshop, CorelDraw, Frontpage, Dreamweaver,
GIF Animation, Swish, Flash and FCP.
He is
up to cinch with the latest web technologies arriving each
day on the cyber scene. Girish holds a Bachelor of Commerce
degree from Karnataka College, Dharwad and a Post Graduate
Diploma in Computer Management from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan.
At IIJNM,
Girish teaches Tools of Journalism, and handles the print
and New Media workshops.
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 With
over twelve years of experience in the electronic media, Surekha
Deepak has worked with both television and films. She
was part of the planning and setting up of the various regional
language satellite channels launched by Eenadu Television.
She has worked with one of the largest film houses in the
country, Ramoji Film City in various roles.
Surekha
has been involved with the planning and execution of two Hollywood
films. She was the special effects coordinator for the Kamal
Hassan film Hey Ram, which won the National Award for Computer
Graphics in 2000. She has also scripted and directed many
documentary films and has been
associated with various NGOs.
She
designed and taught the television production course at Sri
Sri Centre For Media Studies.
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 Saggere Ramaswamy, Editor, www.karnatakanews.com, has been in journalism for over two decades. He started out as a sub-editor, had a brush with reporting and made his mark as a photojournalist. He has worked for 8 different publications, including The Hindu Business Line, Indian Express/Kannada Prabha, Andolana and Star of Mysore.
He was Photo Editor of the Tech Mail, the world's first technology newspaper. Visiting Professor at the IIJNM-Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media, he is Consulting Editor with the Food & Nutrition World, a monthly magazine.
Saggere has given a global perspective to his work with his assignments in Sri Lanka and Egypt. His work has been exhibited in major cities in India. He has received Lifetime Achievement Award of Karnataka Media Academy, the Karnataka State Dasara Award and the Karnataka Union of Working Journalists Award for photojournalism.
Saggere, Founder Secretary of Bangalore Photojournalists Association, has fulfilled his social commitment to the media community in his capacity as General Secretary of Press Club of Bangalore, Organising Committee Chairman of Indo-Sri Lanka Journalists Association and Director, Karnataka Journalists Cooperative Society. He is founder of KPN (Karnataka Photo News) India’s First Web-based News Photo Agency launched in 2003.
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 Appanaa
A.G. today provides content management to software firms
and corporates.
He started his career as an English lecturer. But the love
of writing and sports drew him to Indian Express as a sports
correspondent. He later joined The Asian Age.
The web
boom saw him joining Indiainfo.com as Quality Manager and
he later worked for LG in a similar position. His responsibilities
included strategic planning and development of all channels
including conceptualization, navigation, design, interactivity,
covering all quality parameters such as flawless and captivating
content, color management, browser compatibility, search engine-readiness
and download timing.
He also
worked with Star TV as Assistant Producer, working on an Interactive
Television project, also known as the New Age Television,
where he prepared News and Sports Specification for Interactive
Television. This document was used across genres as a model.
He has also critically analyzed Star Investee Company Explocity.com
for flaws in their content, navigation friendliness, browser
compatibility and download timing.
At IIJNM,
Appanaa will be lecturing on all types of reportage and media
coverage of current and past events in the world of sport.
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 Indira S. Somani, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications with Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. For the fall (Sept. to Dec. ) of 2011, Somani has been awarded a Fulbright senior research fellowship to study the Western influence of Indian programming in India, based at www.iijnm.org. At IIJNM, she is also conducting workshops on how to produce website that displays the students’ broadcast stories. She brings 10 years of broadcast journalism experience as a television producer to the classroom, mainly from CNBC and the ABC affiliate in Washington, DC. Somani is also an award winning independent producer and director of documentaries; her most recent production is “Crossing Lines” (www.crossinglinesthefilm.com). Prior to W & L, Somani taught for five years at American University and the University of Maryland and has been a leader of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). Somani earned her Master's in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in 1993, and her Ph.D. from the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park in May, 2008.
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 Ron Feemster was working as a German-English translator when he began writing journalism stories in German during the 1980s. He covered immigration, local government and popular music for a variety of city magazines in what was then West Germany. He was also a country and rock music correspondent for Swiss National Radio, based in Basel, Switzerland. He speaks German.
By 1991, Ron realized that if he wanted to grow as a journalist, he needed to write in his native American English. He moved to New York City, earned a Master’s degree at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and worked as a freelance journalist there for 17 years. His features and news stories appeared in more than 30 publications, including The New York Times, Newsday, the Village Voice, Inc. magazine and the Ford Foundation Report. He dabbled in public radio as well.
Ron also worked on staff for the Associated Press and the New York Post and taught investigative reporting, magazine writing and other disciplines at Hunter College, Brooklyn College and City College, all part of the City University of New York system. He also served as senior editor at Pharmaceutical Executive magazine.
Just before coming to IIJNM, Ron taught at Northwest College in Powell, Wyoming for two years. There he advised the Northwest Trail (northwesttrail.org), a weekly newspaper written andedited by students. The Trail staff broke national news on a campus of 2000 students.
Ron serves on the board of directors of the Common Language Project, a nonprofit multimedia production house based in Seattle, Washington. CLP reports local and international social-justice news, especially stories that traditional media miss. The Common Language Project (clpmag.org) was co-founded by one of Ron’s former Hunter College students.
In his spare time, Ron is an avid cyclist, an adventurous hiker and a long-suffering golfer.
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 Mark Austin worked from 1997 until 2010 for The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's biggest newspaper, with a combined morning and evening circulation of 14 million. He was employed as a staff writer at The Daily Yomiuri, an English-language newspaper published by the parent organ. Mark was involved in all aspects of producing The Daily Yomiuri, including reporting, writing feature and business articles, reviewing books, editing and page making. As well as writing for The Daily Yomiuri and The Yomiuri Shimbun, Mark has also freelanced and worked as a stringer for publications including The Independent and The Irish Times (for whom he covered the historic election in Japan last year), Newsweek Japan, Scotland on Sunday and the Asahi Evening News (now the IHT/Asahi).
Mark was born in Edinburgh in 1966 and grew up in southern Scotland and southern England. He gained a BA (Hons.) degree in contemporary cultural studies from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1987. After working as a motorcycle courier in London, he moved in 1989 to Brunei, where he lived for a year, working as assistant manager of a firm cultivating and exporting Nepenthes pitcher plants and orchids, a job that entailed regular trips into primary jungle on collection trips, and as manager of a mobile disco. In 1990 he moved to Hiroshima, Japan, where he taught English, trained teachers and managed a school for six-and-a-half years, during which period he also trained teachers in Busan, South Korea, and began freelancing for newspapers and magazines, which led to his being hired by the Yomiuri. He is currently working on book projects.
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 William
Anthony is Assistant Professor, Broadcast at IIJNM. A
graduate in Visual Communication from Loyola College, Chennai,
Prof. Anthony has produced several documentaries on issues
such as farming, street children and poverty.
He has worked as a Regional Documentation
Officer and trained young leaders in social work. He has also
directed several theatre productions, including street plays.
Prof. Anthony is proficient in various audio
and video editing software including Adobe Premier, Cool Edit,
Final Cut Pro, Avid and Pinnacle Studio. He is also familiar
with applications like PageMaker, Photoshop and CorelDraw.
Prof. Anthony is also a graduate in Philosophy.
At IIJNM, he will not only be working with
the students in the television department, but will also guide
the radio students into producing broadcast quality work.
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 Nagesh
Hegde is an Assistant Editor with Prajavani, a leading
Kannada daily and a widely respected writer on environmental
issues. He has handled important assignments for the newspaper,
besides being deputed to cover the Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro.
Hegde
has a Master's Degree in Environmental Sciences from the Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. In fact, he was among the first
batch of students to get this degree in India. He was also
the first to be appointed as an Assistant Professor to teach
Environmental Geoscience in Kumaon University, Nainital.
Hegde's
work on India's iron ore export was debated in the Indian
Parliament just prior to the infamous Emergency. During the
heyday of environmental movements in Karnataka, Hegde's writings
were cited frequently and many of his articles have become
textbook lessons. He has also travelled in the US, UK, Italy,
Portugal and Kenya lecturing on environmental issues. He has
also worked for popularising science among rural communities.
Hegde
has won many literary and environmental awards including the
"Outstanding Environmental Journalist" award by the PRSI (Public
Relations Society of India) and recently a similar one by
the Karnataka Government.
At IIJNM,
Mr Hegde not only teaches Environmental Reporting, but also
Rural Reporting and Covering Religious and Social Issues.
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 K.S. Dakshina Murthy was a key member of the Editorial team that launched the English language version of the Al-Jazeera news website in 2003. Based in Doha, he wrote extensively on the US invasion of Iraq and West Asian politics. He returned to India in April 2006 to pursue other journalistic and allied interests.
He has a basic degree in Science (BSc), MA in Political Science and M.Phil in International Politics.
Dakshina Murthy, who teaches Covering International News, Political Reporting and Writing for the Web, started his career with Sunday Mid-Day in Bangalore and went on to work for several media houses, including The Indian Express, The Press Trust of India, Deccan Herald and the Hindustan Times. He has reported on several events of national importance like the Babri Masji dispute, the Gorkhaland agitation and the 1991 Himalayan earthquake. He is well known for his election reportage. He has also covered the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament extensively.
He is an Editorial Consultant / Trainer with the Hindu. He also occasionally writes for several prominent publications in India and abroad.
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 B.T. Venkatesh is a practicing lawyer specializing in human rights and civil liberties.. His legal career of 25 years has brought him in close proximity to - and in some cases, the eye of the storm of - issues such as Civil and Human rights of persons accused of sedition, stigamitized South Asian LGBT community, marginalised communities.
Prof. Venkatesh has been an active participant in the areas above from his student days.
Apart from being an experienced civil and criminal lawyer, Prof. B. T. Venkatesh, through ReachLaw, provides probono legal advise and litigation support to marginalized communities. He is legal advisor to Greenpeace India, sangama, Suraksha, Garment & Textile workers' Union, Biodiversity Conversation India Limited, Environics Trust, mines, minerals & PEOPLE (an alliance of 200+ organisations working for the rights of mining affected communities) and many other organisations.
At IIJNM Prof. Venkatesh teaches Legal and Ethical Issues in Journalism.
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 Brought up on a diet of Gerald Durrell books and Jacques Cousteau's television series, its perhaps understandable that Nina Subramani grew up wanting to make wildlife films. She studied film and television production at the Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. There she developed an abiding love and understanding for story telling using visual media - be it for for feature film or documentaries. She went on to work for India's leading wildlife filmmakers - the Bedi Brothers and Mike Pandey. While working with Mike Pandey, she made a documentary on medicinal plants and folk healing for which she later received a National Award.
In 2001, she set up a film collective, Elephant Corridor and started working independently. She has since made films on environment and human rights issues and believes that the two are connected. She also has an interest in matters of development, education and the rights of children. Her films have been screened in festivals in India and abroad and more importantly have been used to spread awareness and raise discussions.
Nina enjoys sharing her experiences and craft and has done so through workshops with varied groups - the physically challenged, communication students and high schoolers.
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 Anand
Sagar, Professor Emeritus & Special Advisor, is currently
based in Bahrain as Assistant Editor, Bahrain Tribune, who
had joined IIJNM as professor in 2002, was previously based
in Doha, Qatar, as Assistant Editor of The Peninsula.
He has worked for many years (1989-2000) with the Gulf
News in Dubai and was also its Chief of Bureau in New
Delhi.
He was
earlier awarded an international scholarship in Journalism
Studies and was at the University of Oxford as a member
of its prestigious Visiting Journalists Fellowship Programme.
While
at Oxford, his research project dealt mainly with a comparative
study of Press Laws and he also attended a special training
workshop for select journalists on New Media Technology at
the Thomson Foundation in London.
Prior
to his sabbatical in the UK, he had a long stint with The
Times of India (working for different TOI editions including
Bombay, Ahmedabad and Lucknow) as a senior staffer, columnist,
Art & Theatre critic, and political commentator. He has also
worked for several other newspapers like The Pioneer and The Indian Post, as well as the well-known newsmagazine, India Today.
During
his long journalist career, which began in the mid-70's, he
has covered a wide range of assignments dealing with political
affairs, riots, communal conflicts, state and parliamentary
elections, in addition to handling news analysis and editorial
writing. These assignments have included exclusive interviews
with heads of governments and other leading personalities,
both Indian and foreign.
During
1990-91, as a member of the international Media Pool set up
by the U.S. Joint Armed Services Command in Dubai, he covered
a number of special assignments connected with the Gulf Crisis
and the Gulf War.
Besides
an extended stay in England, Dubai (UAE), and more recently
Doha (Qatar), he has traveled extensively in Europe and parts
of South East Asia.
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 Several
times ducking scientists' probing queries on her background
in science, obviously in initial days, Seema Singh has covered science, technology and all that's related to
it for 12 years for Indian newspapers and overseas magazines.
She has worked for The Asian Age in New Delhi and The Times
of India in Bangalore, which she quit in 2001 to pursue magazine
writing and has written for Newsweek, Red Herring, IEEE-Spectrum,
Forbes, Cell (biomed journal) and others, sometimes even mixing
business with sci-tech to tell the story.
She has
a Masters degree in English Literature (now you know why she
had to hide her subject as a rookie reporter) and was a Knight
Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, in 2001 and a MacArthur Research and
Writing Grantee in 2003. Continuing to follow scientists and
researchers in their tireless journey, she now writes for
the new business paper in the country -- Mint
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 Since joining CNN in 2006, Aziza Jamgerchinova has covered some of the most significant news stories around the world including the outbreak of the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, the Haiti earthquake, and the BP oil spill.
Before joining CNN, she worked on the foreign desk of the New York Times and at New York Times Television, specializing in reality and documentary programming.
Jamgerchinova began her career as an on-air reporter with Kyrgyzstan's Independent Bishkek Television (NBT). She holds a Master of Science degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York, where she currently lives.
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 Although
notorious as the newsroom scientist who swallowed sildenafil
citrate to write a first-person account of its efficacy. Krishna
Prasad is best known as one of the two journalists who broke
the match-fixing scandal that turned the cricket world upside
down. In a 20-year career, he has worked in four cities and
eight different capacities in newspapers and magazines, websites
and radio stations. Hailed on the pages of The New York Times
as "one of India's brightest young journalists", KP
has received two journalism scholarships, edited three books
and taught at five J-schools.
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 Ralph
Frammolino has been an American newspaper reporter for nearly 30 years,
the last 24 of which were spent at the Los Angeles Times.
He has covered a variety of beats ranging from municipal and
California state government, to higher education and the business
of sports. He has also covered major national and international
stories for The Times, including the aftermath of the 9/11
attacks in New York and the second wave of attempted terrorist
bombings of the London subway in 2005. Ralph was part of the
staff-wide effort that won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Spot
News for coverage of the Northridge Earthquake, which hit
the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles.
Ralph's specialty, however, has been investigative reporting.
His stories have exposed the operation of a cornea-for-cash
operation run out of the Los Angeles County morgue, as well
as a scheme by a private public relations firm to cheat the
City of Los Angeles out of hundreds of thousands of dollars
by submitting falsified time sheets. Both stories had direct
results. The cornea story led to a new state law requiring
prior consent for cornea donations, and the time-sheet scandal
led to prosecution and federal prison sentences for two public
relations executives, one of whom was a confidante and major
fundraiser for the mayor.
In 2006, Ralph and a Times colleague were finalists for a
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting based on their
stories revealing how the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired looted
Greek and Roman antiquities over the last 25 years. The stories,
which undermined public denials by Getty officials, provided
part of the impetus for the museum to give back 43 of its
most valuable antiquities to Italy and Greece based on evidence
the pieces were illicit. One other antiquity, a towering 4th
Century BC statue of the goddess Aphrodite, is scheduled to
be returned to Italy in 2010. Ralph recently took a buyout
from The Times to work on a book about the Getty scandal for
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major New York publishing house.
The book, entitled "Chasing Aphrodite," is due out in
2009.
In addition to his reporting, Ralph has served as an Asst.
City Editor at The Times and taught investigative reporting
at the University of Southern California Annenberg School
of Communication. Ralph received his bachelor's degree in
journalism from Michigan State University in 1978 and has
accumulated credits for a master's degree in psychology at
California Lutheran University.
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 Arun
Subramaniam has worked as a print and television journalist
in India and Hong Kong for 24 years. The former business editor
of the Far Eastern Economic Review, Arun has worked with Business
India, India Today and UTV and has regularly appeared as a
political and economics commentator on CNBC Asia and CNN in
Hong Kong.
Arun studied
Economics and Law at the Universities of Madras and Bangalore,
respectively, and initially worked as a project consultant
to a Singapore-based NGO working with rural communities across
South and Southeast Asia. He subsequently practiced labour
law in Bangalore and Mumbai before turning to research and
then to business journalism. One of his most successful efforts
was an investigation into the causes of the 1984 Bhopal gas
leak whose findings, first published in Business India, formed
part of the prosecution's case against the company. He is
also the co-author of The Bhopal Tragedy (CIPA Press, NY,
1985).
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