Spotlight on journalism at Jaipur Lit Festival 2018
the award-winning investigative stories blowing the cover on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church by The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team, to the only writer to have ever gone under cover in North Korea, from the dangers involved in reporting live at the front-line during wars, to discussions with leading Indian media personalities, the programme at the 11th edition of ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2018 is rich with options for those who wish to get a firsthand knowledge of journalistic and reportage writing.
‘Spotlight: The Hunt for Truth’ brings forth the renowned Portuguese-American journalist Michael Rezendes, the Pulitzer Prize awardwinner, for his investigative work as a member of The Boston Globe’s legendary Spotlight Team in conversation with Sreenivasan Jain.
He will speak of the power of traditional and local reporting, the values, veracity and commitment required for investigative journalism as well as the changing
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definitions of news in the current media landscape.
In ‘Undercover in North Korea: Facts and Fictions’, Suki Kim, the South Korean author of the award-winning novel ‘The Interpreter’ and the best-selling ‘Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite’, speaks of her sixmonth undercover investigation embedded within North Korea in conversation with Michael Breen, author of ‘The New Koreans: The Story of a Nation’, and talks of her rare encounter with the world’s most dangerous and unknowable country and of the privileged young men she calls ‘soldiers and slaves’.
In ‘Among the Insurgents’ with Cathy Scott-Clark, Michael Vatikiotis and Peter Bergen are in conversation with Charlie English.
They are to discuss how in this age of terrorism and insurgency, it has never been more important to report accurately on the actions of those who take up arms against established governments.
At the same time, never have journalists been in greater danger doing so, and how exactly does one report on resistance fighters who do this without acting as amplifiers for terrorists?