Shashikant Yadav on Muck Rack

Shashikant Yadav

Scotland
As seen in: Wiley Online Library, The Conversation, The Hindu, Royal Society of Chemistry, The Hindu Business Line, The Wire (India), The Ecologist, Economic and Political Weekly, PV Magazine, The Swaddle and
Covers:  Fracking, Ecocide Law, Illiberal Democracy, Water Security, and Environmental Justice
Doesn't Cover: International Economy, Market Analysis, Trade and Diplomacy
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Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

To report matters concerning fracking in India for The Hindu

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Of course!

How is social media changing news?

It gives "the marginalised" access to information and allows them to mobilise, organise, strategise. On the flip side, it helps fascism.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Email

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Microsoft word

Who do you wish followed you?

John Edward Taylor

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

Exposing flaws in environmental clearances granted to fracking projects in India.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

Keep pitching not to get famous but to facilitate change.

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The Guardian, The New Yorker, The Ecologist, and The Hindu

What's the most common misperception about your beat?

That we all hug trees and are anti-development.
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