Journalists should keep trying out new subjects and approaches

July 04, 2017 12:00

Journalism has its occasions for consternation. I have been sued for defamation. The publisher washed his hands of the matter, and asked me to face the suit on my own. Luckily, there are amongst my friends a couple of lawyers - a husband-and-wife team - they have saved me whenever I got into a soup.

And then there was the minister who wrote to an editor I wrote for that I had personal animus against him. I gave the minister any number of examples when I had been nice to him. But it did not save me; eventually, I was eased out of a job I enjoyed. But I was lucky; I continued writing elsewhere.

Ashok V Desai on journalists and journalism. Read

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