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Don't scoop the reporter who interviews you, and other PR basics

Posted Saturday, October 24, 2009 2:28 AM by will
Note : As threatened, Imagethief is coming out of hiatus from time to time, when things catch his eye. Last Wednesday, the 21st, the IT news channel of giant Chinese portal Sohu published the transcript of an interview of Sohu CEO Charles Zhang by Hong Read More...
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The only version of China's National Day Parade you need to watch

Posted Friday, October 02, 2009 8:16 AM by will
An outstanding video from photojournalist Dan Chung, who was in the stands for yesterday's National Day parade and has produced a three-and-a-half minute version with a mix of time-lapse and slow motion. Much more watchable the tedious CCTV version (which, Read More...
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Riots in Xinjiang and the price of omission

Posted Tuesday, July 07, 2009 1:27 AM by will
To have one ethnic minority erupt in angry rioting looks like misfortune. To have two erupt in angry rioting suggests that a rethink of the overall approach might be a good idea. Urumqi has been in chaos for the last 72 hours, and reports suggest that Read More...
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Comparing surfing habits in the US and China and other worthwhile weekend reading

Posted Sunday, May 24, 2009 2:49 AM by will
A few things spotted over the weekend and worth sharing. Comparing Chinese and US surfing habits Silicon Alley Insider uses Pew and CNNIC data to build a chart showing the differences between the surfing habits of Americans and Chinese . No huge surprises Read More...
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Don't be too CNBC: Xinhua slaps down foreign financial media

Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 8:14 AM by will
In the latest salvo in the largely hidden war over the right to distribute financial news in China, Xinhua has accused western media of being complicit in the financial crisis. This claim has been made elsewhere, most famously by Jon Stewart in his now Read More...
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Of course you can distribute financial news in China, but about your journalists...

Posted Sunday, May 03, 2009 1:41 AM by will
One of the longest running soap operas involving foreign businesses in China is that of the foreign financial information service providers, Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, and such. These companies have been involved in an on-and-off regulatory battle Read More...
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A few brief thoughts on Twitter and swine flu

Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 10:48 PM by will
Imagethief was interested to read a couple of articles in the past day or two criticizing social media in general, and Twitter in specific, for spreading misinformation about the swine flu outbreak. It might not be quite as salacious as rubbernecking Read More...
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Oh, Jackie

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:32 AM by will
Imagethief sends his deepest sympathies to the organizers of the Bo'ao Forum for Asia, who's main contribution to the public discourse this year is a fierce debate on the meaning of what Jackie Chan said during a panel discussion he participated in. Personally, Read More...
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You know your property management company really cares when...

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:19 AM by will
...they intercept your newspaper because they think it's "cult propaganda". From Danwei's Joel Martinsen, a case study from the "you couldn't make it up" school of media management: A major Xinjiang company has come away with a black eye after going up Read More...
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Rebecca MacKinnon's conversation with Anti-CNN

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 7:05 AM by will
Take a moment and read Rebecca MacKinnon's post on her recent interview with the founders of Anti-CNN , the Chinese website that sprang up in the wake of what was seen by many Chinese people to be biased coverage of the unrest in Tibet in March, 2008. Read More...
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The People's Daily as ritual rather than news

Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:25 AM by will
Pop by the blog of Peter Ford, the Christian Science Monitor's man in Beijing and read his post on the People's Daily's approach to covering the National People's Congress , which has apparently remained the same since time immemorial. Or at least since Read More...
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Rui Chenggang and advocating for China

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:55 AM by will
There was an interesting profile of CCTV personality Rui Chenggang by journalist Dave Barboza in yesterday's New York Times . Or, at least as interesting as a 1,200 word profile can be. With all respect to Mr. Barboza, who has done some great stories, Read More...
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Origins of the old "8 percent" China economy chestnut

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:30 AM by will
Jim McGregor, founder of JLM Pacific Epoch, former head of Dow Jones in China, author of "One Billion Customers", and all-round China éminence grise , has written a post on the JLM blog that gets into the origins of the widely quoted "8 percent" figure. Read More...
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Clay Shirky on the fate of newspapers

Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2009 6:14 AM by will
An interesting read from author Clay Shirky. The first couple of paragraphs: Back in 1993, the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain began investigating piracy of Dave Barry’s popular column, which was published by the Miami Herald and syndicated widely. In the Read More...
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Name that China journalist...

Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 7:38 AM by will
The Fool's Mountain blog is always good for a point-of-view on China developments that doesn't conform to the foreign-blogger echo chamber to which Imagethief is an admitted contributor. Last week they published a rather funny post explaining through Read More...
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