Stanford University

Journalism from below in the Digital Age with P. Sainath

Tuesday, May 5, 2015
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM (Pacific)

7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015
Donald Kennedy Commons
Escondido Village
Comstock Circle, Stanford University

https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/frontdesk/kennedy

The People's Archive of Rural India combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present what is both a living journal and a growing online archive. It's a unique and ambitious movement to document the diversity of rural India, home to 833 million people speaking 780 languages. PARI, http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/, is aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people, to document the stories from what Sainath has called the “continent within a sub-continent”.

The site was launched in December 2014. The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants –  are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation.

About the speaker
Over a career spanning 34 years, Sainath has won over 40 awards for his reporting, including the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award and the first Amnesty International’s Global Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2000. His book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, has remained a non-fiction bestseller for decades and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012. He is currently teaching two courses in the Program for South Asian Studies at Princeton University.
 
The People's Archive of Rural India, http://www.ruralindiaonline.org/, combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present a living journal and a growing online archive. It's a unique and ambitious movement to record everyday lives and to document the diversity of rural India, home to over a billion people speaking 780 languages. Launched in December 2014, the website is not-for-profit and free to view.  All the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants –  are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation.
 
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The event is organized by Asha at Stanford and a similar event will be organized at UC Berkeley by the School of Information.

7:00 PM | Tuesday, May 5, 2015

"The Great Room"

Donald Kennedy Commons
Escondido Village
Comstock Circle, Stanford University
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/rde/cgi-bin/drupal/housing/frontdesk/kenn…


6:30 PM | Wednesday, May 6, 2015
210 South Hall
School of Information
UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public.
 

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