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 met an interesting artist today at a private showing at a friend’s house. He was in China for just a few days, on his way home to St. […]
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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). Thursday night was our weekly Cotton’s Bar drinks get-together. One of our new visitors was a man who launched twelve magazines. Twelve magazines! And in not a single case
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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 was in Hong Kong this week for a conference, thus no postings — for some reason, I couldn’t reach the SPJ.org website from my hotel. I do love
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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 was in Hong Kong this week for a conference, thus no postings — for some reason, I couldn’t reach the SPJ.org website from my hotel. I do love to travel,
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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. Two different investors are offering me money to go directly to print with my new magazine (Emerging China, which covers business in central and western China) instead of starting just online
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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 went to the Shanghaiist drinking beer thing tonight at Henry’s Bar and Grill. I took pictures. Mostly, of guys standing arounding drinking beer. And one picture of a
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). Tonight at the foreign correspondents’ get-together at Cotton’s Bar on Anting Lu, I offered jobs to three people. The first, Connie, was sharp as a tack, smart, organized, 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. Just starting out in your career? Looking for a way to go overseas? The folks over at the Council for International Exchange of Scholars asked me to let everyone know 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. For a little while yesterday, there was a rumor that the gunman may have been a Chinese student who got his visa in Shanghai. Chris O’Brien, a “language polisher” for the
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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. Writing about financial technology all day and editing Asia payments stories, when I relax, I want to relax all the day. One thing I do to relax and unwind is by
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. More proof that here in China, we’re covering the biggest business story on the planet. This year, for the second year in a row, a Pulitzer was awarded for China coverage.
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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. When first coming to China, we had to make a decision: Shanghai or Beijing? (Other cities weren’t even under consideration.) I picked Shanghai because it has a stock exchange, and Beijing
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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). Working in two — or more — time zones takes a toll. I need to stay up late many nights to talk with editors, interview sources in the US
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. Since I’ll be hiring for a few positions over the next couple of months, I’m already looking at resumes as well as doing some a background check and screening using Sterling
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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 a writer who speaks no English sent me an email in Chinese. I read it using Google Translate and sent him a reply — using Google Translate to
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