Category Archives: Media business

China Businesscast: The creative agency landscape

An interview with the managing director of a boutique design firm in Beijing, discussing the creative industry in China.

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Praxis gets Internet contract for Confucius Institutes

Chinesepod heart Hanban?

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Forbes to dump China publisher?

A rumor that Forbes is about to dump Morningside.

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ZT Online and China’s media “system”

Shi Yuzhu (史玉柱) gets an article on ZT Online (征途) pulled from Southern Weekly (南方周末), possibly because of a relationship the two companies.

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Newspapers make for an ugly city

Guiyang (贵阳) bans newsstands and other sidewalk hoggers. Is it good for the city? Chinese media comments.

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Stories of bad journalism

Zeng Pengyu writes about sketchy journalists.

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Cory Doctorow speaking at the Beijing Bookworm

On Wednesday science fiction writer, Boing Boing editor and copyright activist Cory Doctorow gave a speech at the Beijing Bookworm to an enthusiastic crowd. Victor Muh filmed the whole speech and uploaded it to Youtube. The guy wearing an Antiwave … Continue reading

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Rumor: Cardboard baozi journalist beaten up to extract confession

This is an Internet rumor and so should be taken with a large grain of salt, but this Chinese blog is saying that the confession by the cardboard baozi journalist only happened after the journalist had been beaten to a … Continue reading

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Winners on the new Chinese Internet

China Web 2.0 Review is a blog that tracks Web 2.0 companies in China. It is written by Tangos and Luyi, two Chinese guys who follow the Chinese Internet closely.

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Asia Times: guilty of plagiarism?

She’s not the only one working in the “grey” economy Recently, your correspondent wrote a Danwei post about a study measuring the size of China’s “grey” economy, and its failure to take into account certain types of “grey” income earned … Continue reading

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