US-based coffee retail giant Starbucks is teaming up with long-time Indian-American journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran to produce “constructive” films and TV shows around issues “that matter”.
The new media start-up “will create and produce non- fiction, social impact content,” according to the company’s founder Rajiv Chandrasekaran, who bid adieu to The Washington Post for this venture on March 2.
The company will start with producing television and film projects around Chandrasekaran’s 2014 book ‘For Love of Country: What Our Veterans Can Teach Us About Citizenship, Heroism and Sacrifice.’
“I am not doing this so they can sell more cups of coffee. What we are doing is trying to play a positive and constructive role -? and broaden understanding across the country around issues that matter to our
nation,” he said in an interview.
His new venture is an outgrowth of a collaboration last year with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz on a book about US veterans.
Schultz has made social causes an important part of the company’s mission since he rejoined it full-time in 2008.
Chandrasekaran has had several jobs at The Post, including national editor, assistant managing editor and Baghdad bureau chief.
