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 job applicant sent me a resume in English (and very nice job, well formatted – the resumes I’m getting have improved a lot, just in the three […]
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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’ve often fantasized about the cool life I would someday lead… in Moscow, in Paris, in Kabul. And I regularly reminisce about the cool times I had — in Moscow, 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). Yesterday, I met a man who bemoaned the state of US media, and its obsessive focus on the minutia of celebrity lies and other distractions. Or at least I
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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’m starting yet another recruiting cycle tomorrow. This month, I’m looking for a new full-time finance reporter. Next month, I’ll be hiring someone with a biology or life sciences background. Both
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 was a great story in the LA Times today — Reporter recalls the layers of truth told in Iraq (thanks, Lauren, for bringing it to my attention). The part that
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 recently met a couple of expat women here in Shanghai who’ve given up on datting. I’m sure there are plenty of women (and men) back home as well who’ve given
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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. Here is the translation of a report about a bit of investigative journalism into KFC and McDonald’s wage problems in the south of China. (Thanks to Fons Tuinstra for bringing it
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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 the previous post, I included a link to the EastSouthWestNorth blog, which translates some of the more interesting stories from Chinese newspapers into English. Certainly puts the business reporting that
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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. On Tuesday, the Chinese government issued a degree making it illegal to bribe journalists to run (or not run) stories. Here’s the China Daily story. I don’t know how I feel
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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 don’t know how long this has been happening, but I just noticed that the Associated Press quoted a Chinese blogger on a story (about a famous house in the south
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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. Being out here in China, where there’s a huge shortage of experienced English-speaking business reporters, I frequently have to hire staff with no reporting experience at all and train them up
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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 got back from another night at Cotton’s Bar, drinking with the other expat journalists in town. The usual gang was there. The famous Shanghai novelist autographed copies of her book.
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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. This is going to be a bit of a technical post, for those setting up a relational database for their own freelance writing workflow, or hiring someone to do it 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’m writing an article this week about Saxo Bank opening a brokerage service in Second Life, an online three-dimensional virtual reality. Everyday, the place is turning into an ever more functional
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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). Every day, Alex Dai, one of my full time employees, spends about an hour an a half looking for stories for the next day’s news feeds. He needs to
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