Ramindar Singh is currently president of IN Mumbai TV. He has had a career in journalism spanning three decades as an investigative reporter, war correspondent, aviation and defense affairs analyst, political commentator and editor of several Indian newspapers. Until August 2001 he was editor of the Sunday Times of India (circulation 2 million +). From 1995 until March 2000, he was the editor of the Times of India, New Delhi, a period in which the circulation of the paper rose from 170,000 to 700,000. Earlier he was managing editor of The Pioneer in New Delhi, executive editor of the Business and Political Observor, two papers that he helped to launch and associate editor of India Today newsmagazine. Ramindar Singh has an abiding interest in issues concerning press freedom and freedom of information, which he intends to pursue at the Shorenstein Center. He was a Nieman Fellow in 1981–82.
Covering September 11 and Its Consequences: A Comparative Study of the Press in America, India and Pakistan
January 1, 2002
A paper by Ramindar Singh, fall 2001 fellow, analyzes how the press in the U.S. responded to the need to understand and report on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and how the press in India and Pakistan handled similar challenges in their region. 9/11 affected Americans in a most fundamental way; it forced
