Lessons in Journalism: The Story of Pothan Joseph
Lessons in Journalism: The Story of Pothan Joseph
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Bind: Paperback
Year: 2007
Pages: 270
Size: 140 x 216 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
The story of Pothan Joseph is the story of India's nationalist press and the historic role it played before today's apolitical corporate pop-press took over. Joseph's daily column "Over a Cup of Tea" was legendary. He gave solid grounding to three major dailies • Hindustan Times, The Indian Express and Deccan Herald. He was also the first to demand that journalism be recognized as a learned calling. He paid heavily for taking that position.
Joseph's extraordinary career highlights the importance of professionalism, scholarship, and basic values. These are lessons here that override present-day commercialism, for neither commodification nor the internet can invalidate journalism's basic values. That is what makes this biography relevant to today's journalists and students alike.
Target Audience:
General public, students & academies of Journalism.
Contents:
A Brewer of Tea • What Makes a Journalist • Experience as Education • The Price of Freedom • Ideology in Journalism • India without Illusions • A New Journalism • Twilight, 1958-1972 • Appendix : Part I: Joseph on Life and Letters in General • Part II: Joseph on Journalists and Journalism • Index
About the Author:
T.J.S.George has achieved distinction internationally as a professional author and biographer. His books includes Krishna Menon (1964), Lee Kuan Yew's Singapore (1973), The Life & Times of Nargis (1994) and MS: A Life in Music (2004). He is the founder-editor of Asiaweek (Hong Kong) and is also actively involved as a journalist in The New Indian Express. For his contribution to literature and education he was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2011. He lives in Bangalore.
