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Arul Louis

 

India

alouis@knight.icfj.org

 

Project Goal: To help journalists develop and utilize sophisticated tools, including online resources and media associations, to provide new perspectives on the links between development and global warming and the steps needed to achieve sustainable development.

 

Partner Organization: TERI (The Energy Resources Institute), New Delhi, India. The Fellowships’ host is TERI’s Director-General, Dr. R.K. Pachauri, who in his capacity as chairman of the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

 

Biography: Arul Louis is the news editor for borough publications at The New York Daily News. He oversees the editing and production of three zoned weekly editions. In his 14 years at the News, he has been an assistant news editor, news editor for the technology section, editor of the weekly science page and a technology columnist. Previously, he was a city editor with The Jersey Journal, a daily newspaper in Jersey City, N.J., and a copy editor with The Courier-News in Bridgewater, N.J. Louis also has been executive editor of India Abroad, a New York-based weekly newspaper covering India and Indians in the United States, and India Abroad News Service (now renamed Indo-Asian News Service), a supplementary wire service for Indian newspapers. Born in India, Louis has a Masters degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a Masters degree in politics and international studies from the School of International Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Louis is fluent in Tamil, and speaks and reads Hindi and French.

 

 To read Arul Luis' Blog click here.


Impact from the Field

Leading authorities on development and climate change held a roundtable discussion with journalists on coverage of the issues at a Feb. 9 Editors' Consultation in New Delhi organized by ICFJ's Knight International Journalism Fellowships and The Energy and Resources Institute, a major Indian think tank. The experts at the discussion were Yvo de Boer, the United Nation’s top climate-change official, Rajinder Pachauri, head the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, Jeffery Sachs, special adviser to the United Nations Secretary General, and C. Dasgupta, a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Council on Climate Change. The journalists came up with several suggestions including creation of a database of experts on climate change, a resource guide to demystify jargon, and training to use the Right to Information Act to pry information from governments.

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Fellow Impact

 Knight International Fellow Addresses International Leaders in Climate Change at Athens Conference

Knight International Journalism Fellow Arul Louis spoke about "Climate Change, Development, Democracy and the Media" at the "Athens Summit 2008 Global Climate and Energy Security." http://www.athens-summit.com/ He was one of the six speakers at the session on "Journalism and the Environment: Motivating the Public Opinion."

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Arul recently helped organize an Editors' Consultation in Delhi, at which journalists were joined by experts including R.K. Pachauri and Jeffrey Sachs for a discussion of climate change and development. Click here to read more.


Arul recently spoke with SAJA Forum, the blog of the South Asian Journalists Association, about his Knight Fellowship. Click here to read the interview.