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ChinaBeat
A weblog by Gregg Fields
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This is a blog by journalist Gregg Fields about ICFJ's Global Business Journalism Program in China. |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/17/2008 10:47 PM
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I was writing an email at my apartment in Beijing when a new message landed in my inbox from a friend in New York.
“Go to Flickr,’’ he said. “Now.’’
The friend, who has traveled extensively through India, had alerted me to those first, terrible photos of the Mumbai massacre.
By the end of the day, I was a veritable Twitter addict as people standing near the Taj hotel filed dispatches.
Meanwhile, a Google map was locating where the terrorists were. A blogger was taking pictures and posting them.
Only hours later did I actually watch “the news.’’ A CNN report -- which I caught on YouTube.
Since I teach multimedia journalism, I guess I shouldn’t have be ...
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By Gregg Fields on
12/17/2008 5:47 PM
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I was writing an email at my apartment in Beijing when a new message landed in my inbox from a friend in New York.
“Go to Flickr,’’ he said. “Now.’’
The friend, who has traveled extensively through India, had alerted me to those first, terrible photos of the Mumbai massacre.
By the end of the day, I was a veritable Twitter addict as people standing near the Taj hotel filed dispatches.
Meanwhile, a Google map was locating where the terrorists were. A blogger was taking pictures and posting them.
Only hours later did I actually watch “the news.’’ A CNN report -- which I caught on YouTube.
Since I teach multimedia journalism, I guess I shouldn’t have be ...
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Is Press Freedom too much to Bear? |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 9:41 AM
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When I arrived to give a seminar to the news staff at Beijing Youth Daily, I looked at all those young reporters and thought I’d probably tell a few stories about what it’s like to be a reporter in Miami, then beat a quick exit.
All to the good, because my boss was then taking me to a Tibetan restaurant for dinner.
The first question: What did I think about the securitization of the Fed’s investment in banks in light of unprovable values in subprime-related debt? The first 15 seconds of my question was one long stutter.
The second questioner asked me whether I believed the yuan would maintain its current peg against the dollar and, if any adjustment were made, how would that affect global trade patterns and, by extension, commodity prices?
When I was their age, the deepest ...
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AIDS and the GBJ Program |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 9:17 AM
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Was it really a generation ago that we first heard reports of the plague?
The lesions. The infections. The deaths.
AIDS hit the Western world with a wallop. And that included journalists, who often reported experiencing a certain “AIDS fatigue,’’ as a seemingly implacable foe daily claimed terrible victories.
AIDS is no longer the threat it once was in America. But it has hardly been vanquished, particularly in less affluent corners of the world.
And a new generation of journalists, far from fatigued, are picking up the story with energy and zeal.
Among them are several students in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University.
“Health is business -- it is economics,’’ says ...
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Is Press Freedom too much to Bear? |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 4:41 AM
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When I arrived to give a seminar to the news staff at Beijing Youth Daily, I looked at all those young reporters and thought I’d probably tell a few stories about what it’s like to be a reporter in Miami, then beat a quick exit.
All to the good, because my boss was then taking me to a Tibetan restaurant for dinner.
The first question: What did I think about the securitization of the Fed’s investment in banks in light of unprovable values in subprime-related debt? The first 15 seconds of my question was one long stutter.
The second questioner asked me whether I believed the yuan would maintain its current peg against the dollar and, if any adjustment were made, how would that affect global trade patterns and, by extension, commodity prices?
When I was their age, the deepest ...
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Is Press Freedom too much to Bear? |
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ChinaBeat
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 4:41 AM
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When I arrived to give a seminar to the news staff at Beijing Youth Daily, I looked at all those young reporters and thought I’d probably tell a few stories about what it’s like to be a reporter in Miami, then beat a quick exit.
All to the good, because my boss was then taking me to a Tibetan restaurant for dinner.
The first question: What did I think about the securitization of the Fed’s investment in banks in light of unprovable values in subprime-related debt? The first 15 seconds of my question was one long stutter.
The second questioner asked me whether I believed the yuan would maintain its current peg against the dollar and, if any adjustment were made, how would that affect global trade patterns and, by extension, commodity prices?
When I was their age, the deepest ...
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AIDS and the GBJ Program |
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ChinaBeat
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 4:17 AM
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Was it really a generation ago that we first heard reports of the plague?
The lesions. The infections. The deaths.
AIDS hit the Western world with a wallop. And that included journalists, who often reported experiencing a certain “AIDS fatigue,’’ as a seemingly implacable foe daily claimed terrible victories.
AIDS is no longer the threat it once was in America. But it has hardly been vanquished, particularly in less affluent corners of the world.
And a new generation of journalists, far from fatigued, are picking up the story with energy and zeal.
Among them are several students in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University.
“Health is business -- it is economics,’’ says ...
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AIDS and the GBJ Program |
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ChinaBeat
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By Gregg Fields on
12/2/2008 4:17 AM
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Was it really a generation ago that we first heard reports of the plague?
The lesions. The infections. The deaths.
AIDS hit the Western world with a wallop. And that included journalists, who often reported experiencing a certain “AIDS fatigue,’’ as a seemingly implacable foe daily claimed terrible victories.
AIDS is no longer the threat it once was in America. But it has hardly been vanquished, particularly in less affluent corners of the world.
And a new generation of journalists, far from fatigued, are picking up the story with energy and zeal.
Among them are several students in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University.
“Health is business -- it is economics,’’ says ...
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Is Press Freedom too much to Bear? |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/1/2008 11:41 PM
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When I arrived to give a seminar to the news staff at Beijing Youth Daily, I looked at all those young reporters and thought I’d probably tell a few stories about what it’s like to be a reporter in Miami, then beat a quick exit.
All to the good, because my boss was then taking me to a Tibetan restaurant for dinner.
The first question: What did I think about the securitization of the Fed’s investment in banks in light of unprovable values in subprime-related debt? The first 15 seconds of my question was one long stutter.
The second questioner asked me whether I believed the yuan would maintain its current peg against the dollar and, if any adjustment were made, how would that affect global trade patterns and, by extension, commodity prices?
When I was their age, the deepest ...
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AIDS and the GBJ Program |
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By Gregg Fields on
12/1/2008 11:17 PM
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Was it really a generation ago that we first heard reports of the plague?
The lesions. The infections. The deaths.
AIDS hit the Western world with a wallop. And that included journalists, who often reported experiencing a certain “AIDS fatigue,’’ as a seemingly implacable foe daily claimed terrible victories.
AIDS is no longer the threat it once was in America. But it has hardly been vanquished, particularly in less affluent corners of the world.
And a new generation of journalists, far from fatigued, are picking up the story with energy and zeal.
Among them are several students in the Global Business Journalism program at Tsinghua University.
“Health is business -- it is economics,’’ says ...
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