Indiana University School of Journalism

Some of the most accomplished journalists to report on India over the decades will gather for the Reporting India conference Monday and Tuesday in the Indiana Memorial Union.

Sponsored by the India Studies program and the School of Journalism, the two-day conference is part of India Studies semester-long lecture series that explores many aspects of Indian politics and culture. All events are free and open to the public.

Reporting India will examine American media coverage over India’s 60-year history. It will focus on the development of Indian journalism and on how the American media has covered India, said Sumit Ganguly, director of the India Studies program.

“India looms very large now in the American consciousness because of diplomatic ties, because of economics and because of cultural and social links,” he said. “This is one of those unheralded stories. India has an extraordinary tradition of great reporters going there, becoming smitten with India, and not being able to get it out of their blood.”

Talks and discussion sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and from 1:45 to 5:15 p.m. Monday and 9 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Tuesday. All events are in the IMU’s State Room East.

Conference participants include:

• Bill Borders, Delhi bureau chief for the New York Times from 1975-1979.
• Barbara Crossette, a travel essayist, freelance writer on foreign policy and author of several books on Asia, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas.
• Sadanand Dhume, a former correspondent for the Asian Wall Street Journal and New Delhi bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review.
• Brad Hamm, dean of the School of Journalism.
• Miranda Kennedy, editor and producer of the business segment of National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. She formerly was an Asia correspondent for the public radio program Marketplace and a producer for the radio show Democracy Now.
• Karl Meyer, a former editorial writer for the New York Times and Washington Post and author, with his wife, Shareen Brysa, of Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Asia.
• Steve Raymer, School of Journalism associate professor and author and photographer of Images of a Journey: India in Diaspora. As part of the series, Raymer will speak about his experiences in India and his new book Nov. 2, 5:30 p.m. in the Ernie Pyle Auditorium.
• John Schidlovsky, founding director of the International Reporting Project, which aims to encourage more international coverage in the U.S. media. He was formerly the New Delhi bureau chief and the Beijing bureau chief for the Baltimore Sun.

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