 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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 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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 Kanchan
Kaur, Vice Dean: A print-medium journalist for the last
18 years, she has worked with the Deccan Herald and Gulf News,
among other newspapers, where she 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.
Apart
from journalism, she has taught Written Analytical Skills
at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and has worked
on several corporate training assignments.
Her most
recent assignment in the Media was with the Sri Sri Centre
for Media Studies where, as Associate Professor, she stood
in as Dean for nearly two academic years. Her students are
doing well in their chosen media houses.
At IIJNM
she teaches students news gathering, reporting and writing
skills. She also offers electives on Investigative Reporting
and 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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 Nikhat
Aslam has 15 years experience as a Video Editor. Having
started her career in Zee TV the year it started, she has
worked on serials, features, documentaries and Ads in Mumbai.
More recently she has enjoyed editing a documentary on Childrens’
Right to Participation . She was part of the Editing team
trained by experts from the Discovery Channel, USA for programs
to be aired on the Educational Satellite being set up in Karnataka.
In the
teaching arena, she guided students in setting up the B.A.
Communicative English course so popular in leading colleges
of the city. She taught this course in several colleges ,
apart from teaching students at the M.S. Communications level
too.
In 1997
she set up her own teaching school “Magic in Motion”
which conducts part time professional courses open to anybody
with the ‘desire to learn filmmaking’. She is the
main instructor for this course. She also teaches the popular
editing software “Final Cut Pro” to aspiring editors.
Very recently
she was part of the 30 member strong preliminary jury for
the 4th CMS Vatavaran competitive environment and wildlife
film festival. The festival is to be held in September 2007,
and is the only festival of its kind in the country.
An Associate
Professor at IIJNM, she is in charge of the Broadcast Television
department. She teaches the skills associated with the Television
medium, handling the camera and sound, apart from editing.
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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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 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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 After her Masters degree in Biochemistry from Nagpur University, she naturally joined her PhD but had to leave a year later because of personal reasons. Papiya Bhattacharya came to Bangalore with a research fellowship in Biotechnology and continued her research in Plant Biotechnology. A year later she joined Deccan Herald as a journalist. At the same time, she worked on the History of Indian Sciences with Prof M G Narasimhan at NIAS, Bangalore for about a year. Four and a half great years followed through which she met many new people, artistes, scientists, society icons and their culture, places and lifestyles. She liked some of them; some she did not and had a great time writing about all in Deccan Herald.
During her Deccan Herald days, I learnt to do stories on science and was hooked. It was great to be able to translate a great scientist’s work on science and make it accessible to all. She continued to freelance after quitting Deccan Herald in 2002 and writes for magazines, science journals and newspapers like 24k, Current Science, The Statesman, The Hindu, The New Indian Express, Health & Nutrition, The Week, Kyoorius Design, Sakaal Times, Bangalore Mirror etc. She had a fortnightly column ‘Everyday Science’ in The Hitavada, a newspaper published in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India for about a year. Now, she writes a weekly column on education and careers for Bangalore Mirror.
While freelancing, she continued to work part time for Journal of Genetics (till September, 2006) and as consultant faculty for Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore (till June 2008), where she taught courses in Creative writing and Synthesis of science and art.
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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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 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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 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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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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 Sabra Ayres has been in American journalism since 1998, working as a reporter and editor for newspapers, wire services and new media.
Before coming to IIJNM, Sabra worked as the editor and video reporter for a start-up hyperlocal news Web site in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Before that, Sabra was a political reporter covering the Alaska state government, including Gov. Sarah Palin’s administration, for the Anchorage Daily News.
Sabra spent four years as a Moscow correspondent for the U.S.-based Cox Newspapers. In the position, Sabra covered the countries of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Her assignments included the 2004 Ukrainian Orange Revolution, the school hostage siege in Beslan, Russia, and Georgia’s conflicts with Putin’s Russia. She has also covered political parties and elections in Germany, Poland and Belarus.
Her articles have appeared in the International Herald Tribune, the Baltimore Sun, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Newsweek Japan, The Moscow Times, ABCnews.com and the Stuttgarter Zeitung,
Sabra’s deep interest in the former Soviet Union started as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine from 1995 to 1997, when she taught English to elementary and high school students. She speaks Russian.
Sabra began her journalism career in 1998 as a beat reporter for small newspapers in Wyoming and New Hampshire, covering local and state politics, police and courts, and arts and entertainment. She has written about bonds and emerging markets for Bloomberg News in London and spent a year as a general assignment reporter for The Associated Press in Miami, Florida.
She was a 2005 Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Germany with the International Center for Journalists. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Vermont and a Masters of Science from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
In her spare time, Sabra is an avid skier and snowboarder and has climbed mountains in Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Far East, the Rocky Mountains and Europe.
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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. Among
other things, he managed the Aljazeera.net newsroom and determined
the selection of stories and their treatment. 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 publishes in the Economic and Political Weekly and is a Correspondent for the Dubai-based magazine “The World”.
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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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 With more than 20 years in the field, Dipti Kotian has worked across print and electronic media both in India and outside the country. Starting her career in the UAE as a staff reporter with the Gulf News in the 80s, she moved to the UK for post graduate studies in TV production, returning to the Emirates to work for Dubai Television's Channel 33.
She has since worked extensively in India for mainline dailies as well as magazines and television news channels at major media organizations. As Bangalore bureau correspondent for the Indian Express group's magazines and as senior correspondent for The Asian Age her responsibilities included daily news reporting, news features, cover stories, city based inputs for national stories and special reports. After covering some of the most high profile stories in Karnataka such as the hunt for Veerappan and the Cauvery water dispute for the India Today Group's news channels, she switched roles as contributing editor south for the group's lifestyle publications including Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan.
Since 2005 she has been based in Sri Lanka working with the MTV/MBC network in Colombo, initially launching and producing Good Morning Sri Lanka a highly popular breakfast show and soon after as News Manager in charge of English News bulletins broadcast on the network's radio and Television stations. Working in a hyperactive newsroom amid the ongoing battle between the government and the LTTE has given her new insights into the importance of free media in a democratic state. Conflict reporting is a skill she now considers essential in the tool kit for new generation journalists.
With a special interest in educational television, Dipti has produced several documentaries telecast on Doordarshan's national network for the UGC's countrywide classroom initiative. Her association with IIJNM goes back to 2004, when she worked as part time faculty teaching reporting and writing to broadcast journalism students.
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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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 Saggere
Ramaswamy has been in journalism for over 18 years now.
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. Currently he is a Consulting Editor
with the Food & Nutrition World, a monthly magazine. He
also teaches photojournalism at the Indian Institute of Journalism
& New Media.
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 the Karnataka State Dasara
Award and the Karnataka Union of Working Journalists Award
for photojournalism. Saggere, who's the 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.
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