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REUTERS INSTITUTE ANNUAL REPORT ’13-’14
RAVI NARASIMHAN
Ravi Narasimhan is Editor-in-
Chief of The Hindu, Director of
The Hindu media group, and a
member of the management
board of The Hindu Centre
for Politics and Public Policy.
Whilst at the Reuters Institute,
he conducted research and
wrote chapters for a book on
freedom of expression that
focuses on the nature and
extent of freedom for print and
electronic media in South Asia
(Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India,
Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka).
A comparative media and legal
study, his work at the Institute
related to the legal framework
of self-regulatory systems and
the working of self-regulation
in South Asia. He has a Master’s
degree in economics and a degree
in law, and was a Fellow at the
Harvard Law School in 2000 and
Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard
University, in 2004. He is the
President of the Editors Guild of
India, a member of the governing
board of the International Press
Institute (IPI), Vienna, and is the
chairperson of the India Chapter
of the IPI. He was the chairman
of the Press Trust of India, India’s
premier news agency, and is
currently a director of the agency.
EVA POLONSKA-
KIMUNGUYI
Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi’s Visiting
Fellowship facilitated her project
on European Broadcasting and
Public Diplomacy in Africa. The
study investigates the responses
of European broadcasters to the
growing competition in the field
of international broadcasting
and to the international media’s
increased interest in Africa.
It compares four European
broadcasters (BBC World,
Deutsche Welle, France 24, and
Euronews): their goals, policies,
practices and message, their
impact on public diplomacy and
on their target audience. It will
generate new understandings
of the relationship between
governments, international
broadcasting, and foreign publics.
ZEHRA SAYED
Zehra Sayed is a Ph.D. student
at Media Management
Transformation Centre at
Jönköping International Business
School in Sweden. During her
time at RISJ, she mainly worked
on her thesis manuscript in close
collaboration with her supervisor
Robert G. Picard. Her thesis title
is ‘International Knowledge
Transfer and Spillover in Indian
News Media: From Institutional
Duality to Third Spaces’. Using
postcolonial theory and data
collected through interviews with
Indian journalists (including many
working for Reuters’ subsidiaries
in Bangalore and Mumbai),
Zehra Sayed critiques the current
understanding of knowledge
transfer in multinational
organisations as well as
conceptualisations of knowledge
spillover to local industries
resulting from the arrival of
multinationals.