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Pix from Aug 1997 meeting:
Wednesday, Aug 27, 1997; Lancers Restaurant in Manhattan

"Covering New York"

Guest speaker:
TUNKU VARADARAJAN of The Times of London

See his bio


Above: Tunku Varadarajan talks about life as a foreign correspondent for The Times of London. Below: Some of the SAJA-ers who joined Tunku for a slice & beer after his talk. No, they did not have to share, and, no, that's not Lancers.


Smile, you SAJA Dow Jones-ers, you: Alok Jha of Smart Money Interactive along with Krishnan Anantharaman & Raju Narisetti of the WSJ.


SAJA J-school alums in the crossfire. On the left: ex-Northwesterners Sue Wasudev, Deepti Hajela and Pradnya Joshi. On the right: ex-Columbians Naresh Fernandes and Sad Dhume.


At the SAJA meeting, Tunku told us about being a reporter in New York.

The Daily Grind of a British Newspaper Correspondent
By T.V. (the types of stories he does regularly, with actual headlines)

  1. Serious American news: "Jury says implant firm hid risks"
  2. Non-serious American news: "Bistro mother and baby go home"
  3. British trash abroad: "Woman who ran off with son's friend is arrested"
  4. Posh Brits abroad: "Princess's million-dollar dresses"
  5. Americans are nuts: "Girlfriend of Ellen 'first-time lesbian' "
  6. ...but they can be clever, too: "Updike launches a short story into cyberspace"
  7. Froth for anxious news editor on a slow news day: "Millie, First Dog in Geoge Bush's White House, dies"
  8. A story that's of no interest to anyone but me, what the heck, I am the correspondent here: "America's lost tribe uses Internet to find past"
  9. Lightish feature: "Chelsea snubs Ivy League"
  10. Heavyish Op-ed: "The lawman who moulded America"
  11. Ripping off the local press (shamelessly): "Royalty builds a new empire in Manhattan"
  12. Crashingly tedious, but must do: "Bell-Nynex merger cleared"
  13. Even in this barren, cricketless land, there's sport: "Yen for Yankees sees rookie strike it rich"
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