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 [...]
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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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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I’ve long thought that email interviews were the lazy man’s way of researching a story. You put gother a list of questions, copy and email them to everyone who might potentially be [...]
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Since I’m in the process of easing out of being a journalist, and easing into being a business owner, and this is a blog about international journalism, not about entrepreneurship, I’m going [...]
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Here is our new slate of leaders at the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club:
President: Duncan Hewitt (Newsweek)Vice-President, Events: Ola Wong (Sydsvenska Dagbladet)Vice-President, Membership: Astrid Freyeisen (ARD German Radio)Media Representative: Rebecca [...]
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Low end reporting work: Get press release. Rewrite to AP style. Call the company involved for a follow-up quote. File.
High end reporting work: Research a difficult technical, financial, regulatory, medical or scientific [...]
