BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:In the era of corporate consolidation—what we might call “Corpo rate Raj”—media and journalism are two distinct\, often antagonistic entit ies locked in a loveless marriage. Media are rent-seeking\, profit-making corporations that cannot be expected to live up to liberal shibboleths suc h as freedom of the press. Journalism\, in contrast\, is what reporters do for a living—or at least used to before recent technologies gave rise to self-questioning around not just what it is reporters should be doing\, bu t why and for whom. Yet journalism still needs “the media” as a platform a nd media still need journalism to\, as Lord Thomson of Fleet (past owner o f The Times\, London) once said\, “fill the spaces between the ads” while fulfilling their commercial interests and those of the governments that me dia corporations are beholden to.In this talk\, award-winning journalist P . Sainath draws upon his long career in India to explore media and journal ism’s loveless marriage. Sainath argues that corporate consolidation and o wnership of media—now a pressing reality almost everywhere—has a tremendou s effect on society across issues of law\, social justice and economic exp loitation. With particular reference to more contemporary issues around CO VID-19 coverage\, the Gen Z protests and the rise of AI\, the talk explore s how structural and social inequality is reflected in and reinforced by t oday’s media in India and beyond.Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist who focuses on inequality\, deprivation and poverty\, particularly in rur al India. He is the recipient of over 75 national and global awards for jo urnalism. A journalist since 1980\, Sainath became a full-time rural repor ter in 1993 and has since spent\, on average\, around 270 days a year in I ndia’s poorest regions writing from there for India’s largest newspapers.M ore recently\, his path-breaking reporting placed India’s ongoing agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides—over 400\,000 in two decades since 1995—on t he national agenda. In 2014\, Sainath launched the People’s Archive of Rur al India (PARI)\, a unique online project on rural India\, with its 833 mi llion people\, speaking 780 living languages and a bewildering array of st ories\, occupations\, arts\, music\, culture and more. PARI has won 106 jo urnalism awards and honors. Sainath is now the A.D. White Professor-at-Lar ge at Cornell University. DTEND:20261109T203000Z DTSTAMP:20261010T030040Z DTSTART:20261109T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:P. Sainath | The Profound Divergence Between Media and Journalism UID:RFCALITEM639271836405451438 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In the era of corporate consolidation—what we might call “Corporate Raj”—media and journalism are two distinct\, ofte n antagonistic entities locked in a loveless marriage. Media are rent-seek ing\, profit-making corporations that cannot be expected to live up to lib eral shibboleths such as freedom of the press. Journalism\, in contrast\, is what reporters do for a living—or at least used to before recent techno logies gave rise to self-questioning around not just what it is r eporters should be doing\, but why and for whom. Yet jou rnalism still needs “the media” as a platform and media still need journal ism to\, as Lord Thomson of Fleet (past owner of The Times\, Lond on) once said\, “fill the spaces between the ads” while fulfilling their c ommercial interests and those of the governments that media corporations a re beholden to.

In this talk\, award-winning journalist P. Sainath d raws upon his long career in India to explore media and journalism’s lovel ess marriage. Sainath argues that corporate consolidation and ownership of media—now a pressing reality almost everywhere—has a tremendous effect on society across issues of law\, social justice and economic exploitation. With particular reference to more contemporary issues around COVID-19 cove rage\, the Gen Z protests and the rise of AI\, the talk explores how struc tural and social inequality is reflected in and reinforced by today’s medi a in India and beyond.

Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist who focuses on inequality\, deprivation and poverty\, pa rticularly in rural India. He is the recipient of over 75 national and glo bal awards for journalism. A journalist since 1980\, Sainath became a full -time rural reporter in 1993 and has since spent\, on average\, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions writing from there for India’s lar gest newspapers.

More recently\, his path-breaking reporting placed India’s ongoing agrarian crisis and farmers’ suicides—over 400\,000 in two decades since 1995—on the national agenda. In 2014\, Sainath launched the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI)\, a unique online project on rural India\, with its 833 million people\, speaking 780 living languages and a bewildering array of stories\, occupations\, arts\, music\, culture and m ore. PARI has won 106 journalism awards and honors. Sainath is now the A.D . White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

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