Dear Friend and Reader,
In a technological feat that couldn’t have occurred even one year ago,В SreenathВ Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs for the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University in NYC has organized a call-in radio show for Indian journalists to collaborate and report on happenings in Mumbai since the attacks.В
Sreenivasan organized this form of collective reporting within an hour, fast organizing made possible through social networking and the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA). There will continue to be “webcasts every 12 hours: 10-11:30 am and 10-11:30 pm New York time; that’s 8:30-10 am and 8:30-10 pm India time.”В
The next show will be at 10 am EST, and you can hear it live, and listen to previous updates, here.
This morning, there were further attacks in Mumbai. The focus has been on Nariman House, a Jewish Center approximately 10 blocks from the Taj Hotel. New York Times reporter Keith Bradsher sent updates on Nariman House from his Blackberry, viewing the siege from across the street. You can read his eyewitness account here.
Yours & truly,
Rachel Asher