Bill Keller at WMA delhi

New Delhi, October 31, 2011 - The Former New York Times Executive Editor, Bill Keller, met this morning journalism students at World Media Academy to share some insightful moments of his professional career.

“I come from a different moment when journalism was a craft that could be learned through the experience on the field. I didn’t even study journalism at school, I just started working very hard for smaller newspapers by covering any kind of stories” said Keller.

"Little by little I improved my skills, I become foreign correspondent in Moscow and Johannesburg for the NYT and one day someone asked me to become the Executive Editor,” he continued.

Bill Keller came to New Delhi to attend the official launch of the NYT’s new blog, “India Ink”. Although the meeting lasted only a hour, Keller discussed many crucial subjects: Wikileaks, the kidnaping of the NYT journalists in Libya, the difference between writing for the online and the print copy of the NYT and the important balance between analysis and opinions in journalism.

And of course the Internet.

"How can technology and multimedia save the Journalism Industry?" asked a student from Nepal. “This is the main issue for many Newspaper Editor at the moment,” answered Keller. “I believe that Internet came actually at the right time to save Journalism, but you have to remember that even though multimedia is a very precious tool for today journalists, the essential craft you need to learn is how to deal with information first and be able to acquire, test, analyze and present it to the audience”.