Tag Archives: journalism

CCTV cancels a talk show and shifts its focus toward entertainment

CCTV cancels Tell It Like It Is (实话实说). Hecaitou comments on ratings and journalistic independence.

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The Rio Tinto case in the Chinese media

Iacob Koch-Weser examines the Chinese media response to the Rio Tinto corporate espionage case.

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A manual for reporting on disasters

Tony Zixin Lee has a collection of interviews of journalists who reported on the 512 Sichuan Earthquake.

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Harnessing human search engines for government use

There’s a ‘human flesh search engine’ effort on to uncover the personal data of two reporters who wrote unflattering things about a local government construction project in Jiangsu.

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Follow-up: The car firecracker story and soft advertising

A blogger takes issue with a story about a fireworks death that ran in the online media’s Auto Channel.

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MarketWatch founder Bill Bishop talks career, money and Twitter

Bill Bishop has been in and out of China for twenty years, and is the co-founder of financial information site MarketWatch, which is now owned by Dow Jones. Bill is an insider in financial journalism and has a solid foundation in the Chinese language. Danwei asked Bill about where to invest money in China in 2009, his career in China, and Stock Twits.

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An English e-book from a Chinese newspaper

An e-book from The Economic Observer newspaper.

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Universities and the media: Friends or enemies?

College students are difficult to interview, The Beijing News reporter Yang Wanguo discovers.

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Grass-roots journalism meets the modern news weekly

Blog Weekly (博客天下) is a weekly current events magazine whose contents are drawn entirely from blog and BBS posts.

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Stop drugs, bombs and journalists

Olympic volunteers on the watch for dangerous objects and people.

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