Table of Contents

Preface - Frederick Noronha and Keya Acharya
Foreword - Darryl D′Monte
PART ONE: ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING
Environment Stories, Among the Most Challenging - Lyla Bavadam
No icing, just bread and butter
This Separate Category - Kunda Dixit
Environmental Journalism at the Time of Economic Liberalisation - Richard Mahapatra
Environmental Journalism since Economic Liberalization - Gopikrishna Warrier
The Most Serious News - Sunita Narain
Writing About the Birds and the Bees - Keya Acharya
My Words, It′s Still Fun! - Sudhirendar Sharma
Problems Of Aesthetics And Misplaced Altruism: Media And Environment - Kazu Ahmed
Good Journalism, That′s All - Kalpana Sharma
Media is No Longer the Fourth Estate - Devinder Sharma
Lost in the Smog - Dionne Bunsha
Tourism and Beyond, does Environmental Journalism Matter? - Frederick Noronha
Environment Journalism, Maldivian Style - Ahmed Zaki Nafiz
Uphill and Downstream in Pakistan - Beena Sarwar
PART TWO: SCIENCE, HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Good Science, Environment Journalism and the Barriers to It! - Pallava Bagla
Environment, Exotic Diseases and the Media: Emerging Issues - Patralekha Chatterjee
PART THREE: WILDLIFE JOURNALISM
At the end of a Dark Tunnel, a Faint Light - Nirmal Ghosh
Tiger Defends the Biodiversity - Malini Shankar
PART FOUR: ENVIRONMENT AND WATER
The Media′s Role in Water and Sanitation - Sahana Singh
Water Journalism Warrants Better Attention - Shree Padre
PART FIVE: REPORTING ON DISASTERS
Dispatches from the Frontline: The Making of The Greenbelt Reports - Nalaka Gunawardene and Manori Wijesekera
Floods: Blacked Out but Real - Sunita Narain
Turbulence: How Volunteers Cyber-Responded to a Tsunami - Peter Griffin
PART SIX: PHOTOJOURNALISM
Stop all the Clocks! Beyond Text, Looking at the Pics - Max Martin
What does One Photograph do to Depict a Flood? - Shahidul Alam
It was a long Journey - Nandan Saxena
PART SEVEN: COMMUNICATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Paradigm Shift in Agricultural Communication - Shivaram Pailoor
A ′Global City′ vs the Environment - Ardeshir Cowasjee
Wild Panther in Miramar? Goa on the Verge of Environmental Hara-kiri - Nandkumar Kamat
PART EIGHT: GENDER AND ENVIRONMENT
Reporting Gender and Environment: Beyond Tokenism - Laxmi Murthy
PART NINE: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
The Grass is Greener This Side - Meena Menon
The Chipko and Appiko Movement - Pandurang Hegde
PART TEN: AN ANIL AGARWAL READER - Anil Agarwal
Media Games - Anil Agarwal
Saying it with Pictures - Anil Agarwal
No Screen PRESENCE - Anil Agarwal

About the Author

Keya Acharya is an independent journalist and researcher, who has been writing exclusively on environment and development for many years and has various national and international publications to her credit. She also teaches development journalism and development issues to media students in Bangalore, where she is based and has conducted several media training workshops. Keya has travelled extensively in the course of her journalism assignments, reporting from various countries on subjects as diverse as solid and hazardous wastes, to human rights, corruption, forestry and wildlife, climate change, agribiotech and others.

Frederick Noronha is a Goa-based journalist and the founder of the India-EJ, the environmental journalists’ cyber-network that links those writing on green issues across India. His works focus on developmental themes and he recently launched an alternative book publishing venture, Goa, 1556 http://goa1556.goa-india.org. He is known for his work on Right to Information issues (including in unearthing the frequent-but unnoticed crashes of Sea Harrier planes of the Indian Navy), and effectively linking campaigners who worked on a long and successful drive to launch community radio in India.

Reviews

The Green Pen is a book about environmental reporting… The book explains how reporting on environment cannot be done in isolation; it is connected with political and economic dimensions. It calls for journalists to have a scientific understanding of environment to be able to report credibly. There are essays on photojournalism, gender and environmental movements…All essays represent strong views and first-hand experience of the active contributions in the field. [The book] is a must have for all journalists, not particularly for those reporting on environment.
*Current Science*

The Green Pen – a collection of essays on environmental journalism is a much needed and welcome addition. It is not simply a conventional book on environmental issues, debates, movements and so on, for a change, this collection is a rare reflection on the state of environmental journalism and reporting…. a very rewarding book.  A must read for all those even remotely concerned with environmental issues.
*e-Social Science*

This book published by SAGE Publications is the first book on environmental journalism in South Asia, and is a must for budding environmental journalists and environmentalists.
*www.meghalayatimes.com*

The Green Pen, a collection of essays edited by Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha, is an effort to create public awareness regarding the dangers of climate change. This is the first book to highlight the role of environmental journalism in South Asia, recounting the diversified experiences and predicaments of some of the most acclaimed environmental journalists in the region while focusing on what Darryl D’monte calls ‘the context of the development versus environment debate’ in the brilliantly written foreword…The Green Pen is a sincere effort to bring this ‘amused-to-death’ humanity to their senses.
*Dawn*

Imperative addition to the shelves of the eco-conscious.
*Business Line*

The Green Pen is an excellent primer to the evolution of environmental journalism in South Asia
*Down to Earth*

The Green Pen is an anthology of writings by environmental journalists touching upon the various dimensions of the crises, challenges and experiences of environment reporting in the Indian subcontinent and some of its neighbouring countries. Writers, mostly journalists and environmentalists, delve into the content of the subject matter, covering a large range of environmentally related issues, even as they reflect on its presentation by the media—making this compilation an interesting read for a wide variety of people.
*Biblio*