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. 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. 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. If you’re in town in Shanghai on a Thursday night — and now you have an excuse to come visit — join us at Cotton’s Bar on the corner of Anting
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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 initial inspiration for me to become a war correspondent was to be like Hemingway. I wanted to drink, smoke, and write novels. I tried doing some of this while 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. Tomorrow night, Shanghai journalists will be continuing a long-standing tradition of foreign correspondents everywhere: they will go out to a bar and drink. It’s a regular Thursday night event for us
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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). Dan Kubiske, chair of the SPJ’s International Journalism Committee, suggested that I blog about my experiences running a bureau out here in Shanghai, so this is it. Some background
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Dan Kubiske, chair of the SPJ’s International Journalism Committee, suggested that I blog about my experiences running a bureau out here in Shanghai, so this is it. Some background — I came to China three years ago, to run the China bureau for Securities Industry News (a weekly New York City financial newspaper). The work
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A beginning journalist asked: It looks like you have a lot of varied experience in journalism. I’m dabbling with becoming a business reporter, but also love narrative writing: i.e. Rick Bragg, Tom French, Tom Hallman. Do you have any advice on the pros and cons of covering business than say education or government reporting? First
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Going overseas definitely gave my career a big jump start — I went from covering local school board meetings in the Chicago suburbs to covering international conflicts within a few months. This was in Moscow, where there were, at the time, two competing English language dailies. One friend came to Moscow straight out of college,
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Compared with some of the big-league outsourcing players, Russia is a rookie. The country’s current revenue from IT outsourcing is $150 million to $200 million annually, a drop in the bucket compared with India’s yearly draw of $6 billion. But, though little more than a decade old, Russia’s outsourcing industry is learning to play to
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The Foreign Correspondents’ Club in Shanghai is an extremely active organization. It hosts talks with news makers as well as cultural and social events. Several of its members have been very kind in showing me around the city. Bill Marcus, a Shanghai-based freelance business and political journalist, entered me a raffle that netted me a
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The paperwork is reportedly moving along to make me an official foreign correspondent in China, and the business cards are on their way. It’s time to get started, laying the groundwork for my new career. Unfortunately, I’ve been too busy these last two weeks setting up my computers, moving my files, getting the Internet access,
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Kiska is learning Chinese in school, and seems to be adjusting pretty well. She brings home homework everyday of Chinese words (characters!) she has to practice writing. Basil is home with me, so he’s not having to learn any Chinese yet. We’re going to start looking for a kindergarden for him soon. Our apartment building
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