Bengali Journalist Chooses Life
Fearing for his safety in Bangladesh, Shahed Alam now works for a New York-based bilingual TV station.
The circumstances that led Shahed Alam to emigrate from Bangladesh to New York this past winter are a harrowing and vivid reminder of just how perilous the profession of journalism remains in many parts of the world.
Alam, a correspondent with New York-based bilingual TV station Time Television U.S.A., is the subject of the latest weekly collaborative piece between Slate and Roads & Kingdoms. From Mansi Choski‘s article:
Until a year ago, Alam worked as on-air journalist for Channel 24 in his hometown of Dhaka, Bangladesh’s capital city, reporting on politics, crime and the environment.
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