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. 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 […]
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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). Today, I finally realized that I’m not a journalist anymore. Just now, about five minutes ago. Great thing about keeping a blog — years later, I’ll be able to
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In many respects, Asia has been following the U.S. and European lead on matters of market structure and regulation as Asian laws and technologies steadily edge closer to the world standards developed elsewhere. With the recent spate of memorandums of understanding among Asian exchanges, not to mention those between these regional markets and others in
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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). The most common question I get from new hires — and other reporters new to China – is how to get people to talk on the record. Here’s a
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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. Last night at our regular drinking get-together at Cotton’s Bar, about half-a-dozen of us expat journalists got together and complained about falling rates. Well, we also had a furious argument about
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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’ve managed journalists from pretty much everywhere — the US, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Central Asia, and, now, India and China. In my experience, the differences between individual reporters
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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. The AP ran this story yesterday — Calif. Web site outsources reporting — about a California online newspaper hiring reporters in India to cover local news in Pasadena. Here’s a writeup
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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. I interviewed a man for a job today who was Canadian-born Chinese, with decent Chinese skills and some decent journalism experience for city magazines here in China, and a business degree
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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. The great thing about journalism is that I get to tell the truth. I regularly tell people who don’t believe me about instances when editors backed me up, even if it
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. The Associated Press ran an interesting story yesterday about a Chinese crook who passed himself off as a reporter or editor from the People’s Daily. Usually these kinds of bribes are
Fake Chinese reporter makes $500,000 from bribes — and gets life Read More »
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). There are three possible stages in a journalist’s career, and each transition is very painful and difficult. The first stage is that of the reporter. You are responsible for
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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. I just got back from vacation yesterday, after a week spent on a beach on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Well, it was a vacation for my kids, at least. I spent
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Article originally published in Insurance Networking News. Patrick Snowball, executive director of Aviva UK, flew down to Mumbai, India in February to accept an award from the Indian software industry. But India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) wasn’t lauding the insurance giant for the jobs it was moving to outsourcing firms on
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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). For another view of working in China, by 24-year-old Charlie Gidney, who writes for the China Daily, check out his blog Positive Solutions. In Sunday’s post Boxes he talks
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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. In three hours, the kids and I are leaving for Shanghai’s Pudong airport to catch a flight to Hong Kong. I was just in Hong Kong last week, but that was
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