Book Deal

In this picture you see the ink drying on my book deal to write a manual on disaster and emergency response coverage for the Maldives Ministry of Information. Not an insignificant task in a country that is still recovering from the December 2004 tsunami and could experience another damaging tidal surge at any time.

This book is part of a series of journalism "how-to" books being published by the Ministry of Information and my colleague Bob Andresen will be writing the book on election coverage. Other contributors to the series include reporters from AFP (on business reporting), CNN and the BBC (broadcast journalsim.