Below is the second episode of Danwei TV. It’s about news stands, magazines and newspapers in Beijing.
Click on one of the little screens below to play; you can also view it in a larger format on the Youtube.com website, or on the Revver.com website.
The short program shows a typical news stand where many Beijing residents purchase newspapers and magazines, and includes short interviews with a news stand operator and two customers. It was shot and edited by Luke Mines, with the original music by Fernando Fidanza.
The circulation figures for the Beijing Evening News come from ESWN: The Real Circulation Numbers for Beijing Newspapers
After reviewing the video, I fear there might be small inaccuracies when it comes to the stated prices of the glossy magazines. These errors will be corrected in text in this space as soon as possible.
If you want to know more about print media in China, please have a look at the links below.
- ESWN: Competition in Chinese Newspaper Industry
- Business Week online: ‘Rolling Stone: A Hit in China?’ by Dexter Roberts (in which your correspondent is quoted)
- Danwei: Newsstand sales figures for Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou
- Danwei: Know Your Chinese Newspapers: Tabloids and broadsheets cover images and conventional wisdom about Beijing’s most widely-read newspapers.
- Danwei: Rolling Stone China: a dud that will probably succeed
- Danwei: Vogue China launches
- Danwei: Life is big (Modern Media’s new magazine)
- Danwei: So Rock Jesus A real counter cultural magazine from northern China
- Danwei: The World according to Cankao Xiaoxi by Bruce Humes About a popular Chinese newspaper that translates excerpts from the foreign press
- Danwei: Human capital and China’s rising advertising and media industries by Didier Guérin
- Danwei: Hot media in Hunan Super Voice Girls, independent-minded provincial TV station.
- Danwei: Dying magazines and dead editors Culture magazines face an uncertain future.
- Danwei: Red Egg A slice of life from a Chinese tech magazine that got stuck between the rock of investment and the hard place of the Chinese publishing environment between 2000 and 2001.
- Danwei: Li Bingbing magazine covers How many magazine covers can a celeb be on at one time?
- Danwei: Lads mag special: Maxim China is Minim
- Danwei: Kid with modem vs. CNN An early look at Chinese blogs.
Sexy Beijing is now on its own website: check the latest episodes at www.sexybeijing.tv