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Why Reporting on the Lives and Livelihoods of 800+ Million Rural Indians Should Matter

Center for Media at Risk Colloquium

Co-Sponsored by CASI & Annenberg School for Communication

Shalini Singh
Indian Journalist & Principal Correspondent, The Week
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 - 12:00
Annenberg School for Communication, Room 300 3620 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Shalini Singh is an Indian journalist who was Principal Correspondent for The Week newsweekly in Delhi. She was part of the Delhi bureau writing on a range of news-features, social trends with a focus on gender and women's issues, arts and culture. On a Centre for Science and Environment fellowship in 2010, Singh exposed the illegal mining in the Indian state of Goa and the devastation caused from unplanned tourism. Singh is a founding member of the CounterMedia Trust and a regular contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University 2017-2018.

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