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Among the hundreds who gathered at the SAJA@15 Convention & Career Expo opening reception at Bloomberg HQ were three foreign correspondents: Amol Sharma, who's heading to the New Delhi bureau of the Wall Street Journal; K.P. Nayar, who is the US bureau chief of the Kolkata Telegraph; and Steve Herman, South Asia bureau chief for VOA. The evening speaker was Laurie Hays, a Bloomberg executive editor (below).
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A top editor of one of the world’s dominant media companies shared some hopeful words with attendees of a reception kicking off SAJA’s 15th anniversary convention Friday.
“Everybody worries about the future of journalism. I don’t - as much,” Laurie
Hays, executive editor for company news at Bloomberg News told journalists at
the event. “Becoming a great journalist is incumbent upon you and your drive to
tell the truth before anybody else does.”
Her audience was a mix of veteran journalists and those just entering the field even as an economy deeply in recession further batters the industry.
"We want this to give people the opportunity to network – it’s a tough industry,” said SAJA board member Aparita Bhandari said. “It’s not just the economy that’s in flux, but the industry too.”
-- By Sindhu Sundar, graduate student at New York University.
