Complete editorial independence

Complete editorial independence

Subir Bhaumik, now Senior Editor with bdnews24.com, is a veteran journalist and author, with 32 years of               journalism – 17 in BBC World Service – behind him. He has been a Queen Elizabeth Fellow at Oxford University, a fellow at East-West Center, Washington and a Eurasian Fellow at Frankfurt University. For him, editorial freedom is of paramount importance. “There is complete editorial independence and not a story that I have suggested in the past one year has been dropped or spiked,” says Bhaumik of his one year so far at bdnews24.com. “Once in a while, suggestions have been made to rework a story or a        headline but that was only to improve it,” says Dr. Bhaumik, as one would call him in the research fraternity.“From my side, all the suggestions I have made have been welcomed and implemented. The staff has been                 enthusiastic and always willing to cooperate.”  He is author of Insurgent Crossfire that details proxy wars in post-colonial South Asia and of Troubled Periphery which looks at the crisis of India's troubled Northeast. He has edited two other volumes – Counter-Gaze: Media, Migrants, Minorities and Living on the Edge: Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts. He has been a media trainer in India, Bangladesh,       Myanmar and China and is founder member of the leading think-tank Calcutta Research Group. He has written for books edited by leading scholars on India, Bangladesh and Myanmar and is a leading columnist-commentator.