Journalism through RTI: Information Investigation Impact
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (922 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9386062836 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
His book reflects his passion for truth and persistence on facts and will be an extremely useful reference and guide for any young person aspiring to join the media.--Prabhu Chawla,Shyamlal Yadav is an RTI activist of a different kind. He has married information to its rightful bride, the newspaper, and transformed it into an instrument of social change. To those who say that we are in a "post-fact" era, I say: Look at Shyamlal Yadav. Yet, this fine and important book is more than the sum of his own outstanding stories. This is his impressive account of how he did it--and how others can learn from
His work on India’s polluted rivers, Streams of Filth (India Today, December 30, 2009) was selected by UNESCO as one of the 20 best investigative reports across the globe. He is the only two-time winner of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism in Investigative Reporting category. Shyamlal has been awarded with the Lorenzo Natalie Journalism Prize by the European Commission for Development, Brussels; Developi
Hence the emphasis is less on theory and more on practical aspects, making the book ‘a story behind India’s biggest news stories’. . Using the storyline approach, the author, through his own experiences, unravels how news was collected through persistent efforts using RTI, how the stories evolved, and how the subject was followed up keeping an eye on the rightful impact. How RTI changed the face of investigative journalism in India, forever…The RTI Act has helped investigative journalism in getting information that otherwise would have been almost impossible to unearth despite legal provisions