South Asian Journalists Association, NY Chapter and the Tamarind Arts Council
present a panel discussion: Covering News in India and Pakistan with Vikas Bajaj, South Asia Correspondent, The New York Times and Kiran Khalid, Producer, CNN NY Bureau, in conversation with SM Kalita, Senior Deputy Editor, Greater New York section, and The Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
TamarindArt Gallery, 142 East 39th Street (bet. Lexington and Third avenues)
6.30-7.30 pm reception
7.30-8.30 pm panel and q&a
Bios
Vikas Bajaj is a correspondent for The New York Times in Mumbai, India, where he writes primarily about economic and business issues. He was previously based in New York and covered housing and financial markets from June 2006 to March 2009. Mr. Bajaj graduated from Michigan State University in 1998 and joined the Times in 2005, having previously worked at The Dallas Morning News. He was born in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and grew up there and in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to India in the spring of 2009.
Kiran Khalid is a broadcast journalist with more than ten years of newsroom experience. Kiran has worked on-air for every network affiliate in markets including Austin, Mobile, San Francisco, Las Vegas and, most recently, New York City. After September 11, 2001, she was one of the first American journalists to gain access into a Pakistani madrassa (religious school) to see firsthand what many were calling “terrorist breeding grounds.” In August of 2005 she traveled to Niger and Mali to cover the famine that gripped the West African countries for CNN International. Those stories were showcased at the United Nations Film Festival as finalists in the “Stories from the Field” category. In 2007, she completed her second documentary, “We Are Not Free” about media censorship in Pakistan. Last year, she filed stories from Turkey and Ethiopia about the world water crisis. And most recently, she spent three months reporting and producing for CNN’s Pakistan Bureau. Currently, she resides in Manhattan where she works as a producer for CNN and teaches at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
S. Mitra Kalita is the senior deputy editor of Greater New York, the new section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. Ms. Kalita previously served as the deputy global economics editor at the Journal. She also anchored a weekly column for the Journal called New Global India. Ms. Kalita was a founding editor and columnist at Mint, a business newspaper in New Delhi. She has reported for the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press on subjects including 9/11, New York City’s economy, outsourcing and the global financial crisis. She has won several awards for her work and was included in the “Best Business Stories of 2003” and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, most recently for coverage of the great recession. She is the author of the award-winning “Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America.” Her book on the Indian economy will be released this year by Harper Collins India. Ms. Kalita was born in Brooklyn, raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey. She currently resided in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her husband and young daughter.
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present a panel discussion: Covering News in India and Pakistan with Vikas Bajaj, South Asia Correspondent, The New York Times and Kiran Khalid, Producer, CNN NY Bureau, in conversation with SM Kalita, Senior Deputy Editor, Greater New York section, and The Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
TamarindArt Gallery, 142 East 39th Street (bet. Lexington and Third avenues)
6.30-7.30 pm reception
7.30-8.30 pm panel and q&a
Bios
Vikas Bajaj is a correspondent for The New York Times in Mumbai, India, where he writes primarily about economic and business issues. He was previously based in New York and covered housing and financial markets from June 2006 to March 2009. Mr. Bajaj graduated from Michigan State University in 1998 and joined the Times in 2005, having previously worked at The Dallas Morning News. He was born in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and grew up there and in Bangkok, Thailand. He returned to India in the spring of 2009.
Kiran Khalid is a broadcast journalist with more than ten years of newsroom experience. Kiran has worked on-air for every network affiliate in markets including Austin, Mobile, San Francisco, Las Vegas and, most recently, New York City. After September 11, 2001, she was one of the first American journalists to gain access into a Pakistani madrassa (religious school) to see firsthand what many were calling “terrorist breeding grounds.” In August of 2005 she traveled to Niger and Mali to cover the famine that gripped the West African countries for CNN International. Those stories were showcased at the United Nations Film Festival as finalists in the “Stories from the Field” category. In 2007, she completed her second documentary, “We Are Not Free” about media censorship in Pakistan. Last year, she filed stories from Turkey and Ethiopia about the world water crisis. And most recently, she spent three months reporting and producing for CNN’s Pakistan Bureau. Currently, she resides in Manhattan where she works as a producer for CNN and teaches at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
S. Mitra Kalita is the senior deputy editor of Greater New York, the new section of The Wall Street Journal devoted to the New York area. Ms. Kalita previously served as the deputy global economics editor at the Journal. She also anchored a weekly column for the Journal called New Global India. Ms. Kalita was a founding editor and columnist at Mint, a business newspaper in New Delhi. She has reported for the Washington Post, Newsday and the Associated Press on subjects including 9/11, New York City’s economy, outsourcing and the global financial crisis. She has won several awards for her work and was included in the “Best Business Stories of 2003” and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, most recently for coverage of the great recession. She is the author of the award-winning “Suburban Sahibs: Three immigrant families and their passage from India to America.” Her book on the Indian economy will be released this year by Harper Collins India. Ms. Kalita was born in Brooklyn, raised in Long Island, Puerto Rico and New Jersey. She currently resided in Jackson Heights, Queens, with her husband and young daughter.
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