After the Soviet Union fell apart, I went to Russia to cover the civil wars in the former Soviet republics. I covered the dot-com boom for Computerworld — particularly the way that the Internet transformed the world’s financial system. For the past three years, I have been covering the way that the rise of China […]
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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). On Sunday, Gene Weingarten of the Washington Post made fun of PasadenaNow’s plans to outsource local reporting jobs to India in his column, Hack for Hire. He does 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 (and comments). Last week, we had so many story assignments coming in that we ran out of writers (including our freelancers). Thus no postings from me for a while. We’ve been
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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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. 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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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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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). 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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