Traveled /Traveling from the US & Canada to Cover the Story In Person - mainly in Sri Lanka and India
- Murali Balaji, reporter, Delaware News Journal; murali_balaji at hotmail.com
- Suleman Din, reporter, Star-Ledger; sdin at starledger.com
- Dr. Mona Khanna,
medical correspondent, KTVT-Channel 11 in
Dallas; pmkhanna at pol.net
- Dr. Sanjay
Gupta, medical correspondent, CNN
- Pia Sarkar, reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
PSarkar at sfchronicle.com
- Mehul Srivasatava, reporter, Dayton Daily News; traveling with photographer Chris Stewart; msrivastava at daytondailynews.com
Stories at DaytonDailyNews.com
- Fareed Zakaria, editor, Newsweek International
Column from Chennai
SAJA Members Already in India
- Akash
Kapur, American freelancer, now living in India
New Yorker piece:
What the Ocean Took Away
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Manjeet Kripalani, Mumbai bureau chief, BusinessWeek
- Madhusree
Mukerjee, PhD
Leading expert on the Andaman Islands of India -
an American journalist currently in Calcutta, India, where she is involved
in relief efforts
Author, The Land of Naked People: Encounters with
Stone Age Islanders (Houghton Mifflin, Boston and Penguin India, 2003); former editor at Scientific American
E-mail: lopchu at
att.net
India phone: 91-33-3096-7216
India cell: 91-9830040807
- Anuradha Raghunathan, former Dallas Morning News Staffer, now freelancing in Chennai; anu raghunathan at gmail.com
COLUMN:
How South Asian journalists are covering the story (Richard
Prince's Journal-isms)
ARTICLE: Ethnic media at forefront of tsunami story (Pacific News Service)
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Covering the Story in
the U.S. & Canada
- written, produced or edited stories/coverage
Local angles, effect on immigrant communities, fundraising efforts
- Niala Boodhoo, reporter, South Florida Sun-Sentinel - where the story has been front-page news since day one.
- Bryan Virasami, Newsday
story on fundraisers
- Sumathi Reddy, Baltimore Sun
- Gaiutra Bahadur, Philadelphia Inquirer
- Minauti Dave, reporter, Daily Record, Morristown, NJ - wrote several front-page stories.
- Nina Virdi, hosted 30-minute tsunami relief special for Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Editors/Producers/Anchors
- Peter Bhatia, executive editor, The Oregonian
- Karim Deen, producer, CBC, Toronto
- Rena Golden, head of CNN International - coordinating big-picture coverage
- Nisid Hajari, managing editor, and Vibhuti Patel, senior editor, Newsweek International (Fareed Zakaria in India; see column at left)
- Romesh Ratnesar, world editor; Jyoti Thottam, reporter, Time
- Zahir Sachedina, executive producer, WABC-TV 6 pm news - was also producer the 7-8 am news the morning it happened
- Madhulika Sikka, senior producer, ABC News Nightline, which covered the tsunami extensively
- Hari Sreenivasan, anchor for ABC News Now
- reporting/covering this since 8 a.m. ET on the day it happened.
Major Op-ed Commentaries:
Ethnic Press:
Ethnic media at forefront of tsunami story (Pacific News Service)
- INDIA ABROAD/REDIFF
Prem Panicker, managing editor
Aziz Haniffa, covering DC angles
Monika Joshi
Tanmaya Kumar Nanda, covering fundraising
Suman Mozumder
Arun Venugopal, covering doctors/counselors on the ground; arunv at indiaabroad.com
- INDIA TODAY
Anil
Padmanabhan, NY bureau chief, India Today; anilmk at hotmail.com
- INDIA WEST
Bina Murarka, editor; editor at indiawest.com
Viji Sundaram, reporter; viji at indiawest.com
Ashfaque Swapan, reporter; aswapan at aol.com
- NEWS INDIA TIMES
Veena Merchant, editor-in-chief
editor at newsindia-times
- Other media outlets
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REPORTERS & EDITORS:
ABCDLady, India Post, India West, Khabar
TV PRODUCERS, REPORTERS, SHOOTERS, EDITORS & ANCHORS: American Desi, Eye on
Asia, ITV, TV Asia, South Asia World,
send us your
updates: saja@columbia.edu
For SAJA: S. Mitra
Kalita, John Laxmi and Sreenath Sreenivasan -
updating SAJA.org/tsunami.html and working with
reporters from around the world (more than 120 news orgs
have contacted SAJA since tsunamis struck).
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