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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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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