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'''Barbara Crossette''' (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and |
'''Barbara Crossette''' (born 12 July 1939 in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]) is an [[United States|American]] journalist and instructor in journalism. |
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She wrote for ''[[The New York Times]]'' for over twenty years, and served as the paper's chief correspondent in South East Asia. She was the Times' [[United Nations]] bureau chief from 1994 to 2001, and in 2003 she was awarded the United Nations Correspondents' Association's lifetime achievement award. |
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In 1991 she received the George Polk Award for her coverage in India of the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi. In 2010 she won the Shorenstein prize for writing on Asia, awarded jointly by journalism centers at Stanford University and Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. She was a Knight international press fellow in Brazil in 2004-2005, and has conducted workshops in Southeast Asia for the Independent Journalism Foundation. |
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She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the editorial advisory board of the Foreign Policy Association and the Authors Guild, which maintains a full and accurate biography of her and a complete bibliography of her work at www.authorsguild.org. |
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She is on the advisory board of [[New York University]]'s Institute for Global Studies. Lately, her articles have appeared in ''[[The Nation]]''.<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/barbara_crossette New Era for Pakistan--and Kashmir?, ''The Nation'']</ref> |
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She holds an honorary doctorate from Muhlenberg College, where she is now a member of the Board of Trustees. |
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She has also written books, including ''So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas'' (1995) and ''The Great Hill Stations of Asia'' (1998). The latter was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. In 2010, she was awarded the Shorenstein Journalism Award, awarded jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center at Stanford University, and the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, part of the Kennedy School of Government.<ref>http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/veteran_journalist_barbara_crossette_wins_2010_shorenstein_journalism_award_20100330/</ref> |
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==Criticism and controversies== |
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Crossette has written extensively on [[India]], and has been accused of prejudice against the country.<ref>[http://www.indiastar.com/sagokia.html Barbara Crossette dumps on India]</ref> |
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[[Vamsee Juluri]], author and Professor of [[Media Studies]] at the [[University of San Francisco]], identified [[Indophobic]] bias and prejudice in Crosette's writings. Specifically, he accuses Crosette of [[libel]]ling a [[liberal democracy]] and an ally of the United States as a "[[Rogue state|rogue nation]]" and describing India as "[[pious]]," "[[craving]]," "[[petulant]]," "[[intransigent]]," and "believes that the world's rules don't apply to it". Juluri identifies these attacks as part of a [[racist]] [[postcolonial]]/[[neo-colonialism|neocolonial]] discourse used by Crosette to attack and defame India and encourage racial prejudice against [[Indian Americans]].<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vamsee-juluri/indophobia-the-real-eleph_b_415237.html Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room]</ref> |
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Crossette's recent article<ref>[http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/04/the_elephant_in_the_room?page=full The elephant in the room]</ref> in [[Foreign Policy]] magazine described India as a villain, evil and the biggest headache in Asia. An Indian journalist [[Nitin Pai]], in his rebuttal,<ref>[http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/07/why_india_is_no_villain Why India is no villain]</ref> described the piece as a newsroom-cliche, utterly biased and factually incorrect. |
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==Bibliography== |
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Revision as of 03:34, 12 April 2012
Barbara Crossette | |
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| Born | July 12, 1939 |
| Occupation(s) | journalist, author, teacher of journalism |
| Notable credit(s) | The New York Times; India Facing the 21st Century, So Close to Heaven, The Great Hill Stations of Asia, India: Old Civilization in a New World (books) |
| Spouse | David Wigg |
Barbara Crossette (born 12 July 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American journalist and instructor in journalism.
She wrote for The New York Times for over twenty years, and served as the paper's chief correspondent in South East Asia. She was the Times' United Nations bureau chief from 1994 to 2001, and in 2003 she was awarded the United Nations Correspondents' Association's lifetime achievement award.
She is on the advisory board of New York University's Institute for Global Studies. Lately, her articles have appeared in The Nation.[1]
She has also written books, including So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas (1995) and The Great Hill Stations of Asia (1998). The latter was a New York Times notable book of the year in 1998. In 2010, she was awarded the Shorenstein Journalism Award, awarded jointly by the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Center at Stanford University, and the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, part of the Kennedy School of Government.[2]
Criticism and controversies
Crossette has written extensively on India, and has been accused of prejudice against the country.[3]
Vamsee Juluri, author and Professor of Media Studies at the University of San Francisco, identified Indophobic bias and prejudice in Crosette's writings. Specifically, he accuses Crosette of libelling a liberal democracy and an ally of the United States as a "rogue nation" and describing India as "pious," "craving," "petulant," "intransigent," and "believes that the world's rules don't apply to it". Juluri identifies these attacks as part of a racist postcolonial/neocolonial discourse used by Crosette to attack and defame India and encourage racial prejudice against Indian Americans.[4]
Crossette's recent article[5] in Foreign Policy magazine described India as a villain, evil and the biggest headache in Asia. An Indian journalist Nitin Pai, in his rebuttal,[6] described the piece as a newsroom-cliche, utterly biased and factually incorrect.
Bibliography
- India: Old Civilization in a New World. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 2000. ISBN 0871241935 ISBN 978-0871241931
- The Great Hill Stations of Asia. Basic Books, 1998. ISBN 0813333261 ISBN 978-0813333267
- So Close to Heaven: The Vanishing Buddhist Kingdoms of the Himalayas. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995. ISBN 067941827X ISBN 978-0679418276
- India Facing the 21st Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. ISBN 0253315778 ISBN 978-0253315779
Notes
- ^ New Era for Pakistan--and Kashmir?, The Nation
- ^ http://fsi.stanford.edu/news/veteran_journalist_barbara_crossette_wins_2010_shorenstein_journalism_award_20100330/
- ^ Barbara Crossette dumps on India
- ^ Indophobia: The Real Elephant in the Living Room
- ^ The elephant in the room
- ^ Why India is no villain