Category Archives: Media business

Reuters – still legal after 50 years

Xinhua backs down on foreign wire service rules? Or just an empty gesture of friendliness?

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MySpace China launches, Wendi officially on board

MySpace China launched today, and The Wall Street Journal has published a piece by Jason Dean that reveals some details about the company: • “In a departure from the way other big foreign Internet companies have entered China, MySpace China … Continue reading →

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Aussie newspaper kills story about Rupert Murdoch’s wife

Wendi Deng: ”She, a woman who has already worked miracles, might she be the future Queen of Media?’ We won’t find out anytime soon, thanks to a decision by Good Weekend to quash a profile of Rupert Murdoch’s wife. This article, originally published on Crikey, is republished here with permission of the author.

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Video sharing sites going down the Youtube?

A recent article by Reuters journalist Sophie Taylor looks at China’s video-sharing websites and concludes that their prospects are not good: Investors leaving China’s video-sharing sites …Investors, spurred on by the Google-YouTube deal, have made big bets on China, the … Continue reading →

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Danwei TV outperforms Budweiser TV

In an article titled Traffic Plummets at Struggling Bud.TV, Advertising Age gives some figures for American beer giant Budweiser’s online video channel Bud.tv. Bud.tv’s statistics are indeed underwhelming: Bud.TV drew 152,000 unique visitors last month, 40% fewer than February’s 253,000 … Continue reading →

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U.S. vs China at the WTO: “We’re too old!”

Squabbling in the WTO about state-run or state-approved companies cornering the market for distribution of foreign media misses the market.

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Behind the scenes at Southern Weekly

A new book, ‘Backstage’ (后台), shines light on what goes into a news story at Southern Weekly (南方周末 aka Southern Weekend).

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Viacom vs Youtube: good for the small guys?

While your correspondent believes that traditional media companies should find constructive ways of meet the realities of new media rather than suing Youtube for copyright infringement issues as Viacom has just done, the case may have a beneficial trickle down … Continue reading →

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China sex cliches, inflated circulation numbers and The New York Times

In the late 1990s, two Shanghainese women named Mian Mian and Wei Hui wrote novels that described promiscuous lifestyles. The publication of these books was followed by various articles in the Western media about the sexual revolution going on in … Continue reading →

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Big numbers for a book signing

Yu Dan (于丹) signs 15,060 copies of Things I Learned from Zhuangzi (于丹《庄子》心得); Wang Xiaobo’s complete works have typos that no one will take responsibility for.

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