Archive for Journalism

The Media versus Marginal Cost

July 13, 2010 No Comments

If you have two companies producing the same product then, over time, the price to the consumer will eventually start to hover just above the incremental price of each additional product. Not the price it costs to produce products — but the price it takes to produce one more product. Say, for example, you have two newspapers ...

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Will China own the next Internet?

April 9, 2009 No Comments

According to most predictions – including mine – the next generation of the Internet will be three-dimensional, fully immersive, a multi-media smorgasbord for the senses.

Journalism

Description vs. prescription

February 16, 2009 No Comments

I love the fact that there are always two kids of everything in the world… the binary system is so neat and orderly. There are two kinds of grammarians: the prescriptivists and the descriptivists. The prescriptivists lay down the rules, then want other people to follow them. When someone splits an infinitive, for example, or ends ...

Journalism

More on WordPress — it’s starting to look pretty … pretty

July 31, 2008 No Comments

I checked out SquareSpace — nice web interface, but seems a little lacking in functionality. Then Ottawa-based web guy Gesman pointed me to a WordPress design site specifically for magazines and news organizations. This is EXACTLY what I was looking for – thanks, Gesman! The designs are gorgeous and don’t look like blogs at all. I particularly love ...

Journalism

How to kill your journalism career: The story of J.

June 7, 2008 No Comments

We cover a lot of countries here at Trombly Ltd. Some of these countries speak other languages. So we’re always looking for reporters with go od language skills. J. was perfect. Young, ambitious, had the languages we needed — plus, with journalism experience. She wrote ten articles for us. Sure, her work needed work. She needed to ...

Journalism

Journalism vs. PR

April 26, 2008 1 Comment

Just came back from a nice lunch at KABB, in Shanghai’s people-watching mecca Xintiandi. Hose Mitamura (author of China s Environment 2008, available from Amazon) and I discussed the differences between journalism and PR. As my staff constantly reminds me, I tend to believe passionately in whatever I heard most recently. In my case, this is ...

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Journalists and bad job-hunting skills

June 19, 2007 No Comments

Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post (and comments). I don’t know if this is the case just in China or everywhere, but a great number of journalists I interview lately have remarkably poor job hunting skills. It seems that ...

Journalism

How to avoid paying bribes

May 23, 2007 No Comments

Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post. At lunch today I had a nice chat with a lawyer friend about paying bribes. Now, I’m not about to comment on this issue in China (except to say that, for me ...

Journalism

How (not) to write a China article

May 23, 2007 No Comments

Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post (and comments). Sinocidal (a.k.a. “Five guys hanging around in China”) has a great post today by blogger ChouChou about how to write a China article. Quick summary: * Title: China/The ...

Journalism

You don’t need to fly around the world to edit for a China pub, or, Reverse outsourcing

May 22, 2007 No Comments

Note: This blog post also ran in the Society of Professional Journalism’s “Journalism and the World” blog. Click here to see the original post There is a shortage of English-language writers and copyeditors in China. Especially experienced ones. The reason is that expats typically don’t stay in China for a long time – it’s stressful. They start ...

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