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. 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). 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. 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. 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 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 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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