Telegraph South Asia blogging
Daily Telegraph South Asia correspondent Peter Foster writes an excellent blog for his newspaper. Focusing on his life in India, the people he meets and his quest to learn Hindi.
A recent entry by Foster commented on an article by the editor of India Today, which itself is very spot on.
Aroon Purie, an elder statesman of Indian journalism and the man who’s edited the magazine for all of those 30 years, finds himself looking forward to the next three decades and speculates on what they might hold.
“Today teens and twenty-somethings don’t consider editors and reporters to be god-like figures from above telling them what’s important,” he writes, “A growing number don’t want news presented as gospel. They would like to engage and even question journalists in more extended discussions.
“News will become a commodity and journalists will have to be masters in their areas of expertise, ready to be held accountable … These are exciting times … there will be enormous change but what will not die is the art of story-telling in whichever form it comes. Compelling, well-told stories will always have a market.”
