Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday Media Roundtable. This week, we'll discuss coverage of the Presidential Commission's investigation into the BP oil disaster, which released 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf. We'll also talk about President Obama's three-day visit to India. We'll be joined by independent journalist Dahr Jamail, The Guardian's environmental correspondent Suzanne Goldenberg, and New India Times' Sunil Adam. Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Dahr Jamail, an independent investigative journalist

Suzanne Goldenberg, based in Washington DC, the US environmental correspondent of The Guardian

Sunil Adam, the editor of The Indian American, a bimonthly general-interest magazine published from New York

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On the next Your Call it's our Friday Media Roundtable when we host a conversation with journalists from the mainstream, alternative and international press about the way the news was reported. This week we'll be joined by Sreenath Sreenivasan, president of the South Asian Journalists Association to talk about coverage of the attack on Mumbai, both here and around the world. We'll also be joined by Mark Hertsgaard, environmental correspondent for The Nation. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It's your call with me, Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests: Sreenath Sreenivasan in New York
Dean of student affairs & professor, Columbia journalism school. He is also the tech reporter for WNBC-TV in New York and he is the co-founder and former president of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association

Mark Hertsgaard in Marin
Environmental correspondent for The Nation and the author of many books, including Earth Odyssey: Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future.

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