Category Archives: Media and Advertising

China in Zambia

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. Time for the military to obey the rules of the road? China intervenes in Zambian election The Financial Times reports: … Continue reading →

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China Businesscast: Fritz Demopoulos, CEO Qunar.com

This episode kicks off a China Businesscast series on entrepreneurship in China. Fritz Demopoulos is CEO and co-founder of Qunar.com, a travel-focused vertical search engine. Fritz is a veteran China entrepreneur and has a lot of valuable insights about starting … Continue reading →

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Who’s doing the censoring, exactly?

Lou Ye gets banned from filmmaking, and workers in a Beijing film processing plant confiscate copies of a movie they think is too sexy.

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Assessing the media’s victory over FoxConn

Journalist Zhang Rui pours cold water on the Chinese media’s victory celebration over FoxConn’s 30-million-yuan suit.

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Printing the Internet

网事周刊, a new weekly from Southern Workers News that takes its content from the Internet.

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Special forces cops

Special forces, Bullog, press freedom, and Shaolin.

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Sensationalism at the Shanghai Daily

Danwei has recently been accused of sensationalistic headline writing. But we have a lot to learn from the Shanghai Daily, who displayed their tabloid prowess recently in a story about your correspondent’s home country: MURDER RATE STUMPS SOUTH AFRICA COPS … Continue reading →

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Some differing views on Foxconn

More responses from journalists and observers to the Foxconn suit against reporters from China Business News.

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My Hero wins ratings war

Danwei Noon Report is a daily roundup of new and old media coverage about China from Chinese and English sources. How many roads must a man walk down? Reality talent shows still work in China Sina reported yesterday that the … Continue reading →

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A medical scam’s willing participants

From Oriental Outlook, a personal account by a doctor of patients shilling for bad medicine. Also, a Legal Report episode on how commercials are faked.

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