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Join thousands of journalists worldwide on ICFJ's International Journalists' Network (IJNet). Take part in this week's discussion question, which asks: "Media Pluralism: Divisive or democratic?"
Use IJNet to connect with your journalist peers, answer discussions and polls, solicit professional training opportunities, post your own questions and even hunt for jobs. While it is not required, you are invited to register and create a profile on IJNet.
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The Tsinghua Global Business Journalism Program (GBJ)
The International Center for Journalists and Tsinghua University in Beijing launched China’s first Global Business Journalism Program on September 17, 2007. The initiative includes a two-year master’s degree program and professional trainings for working journalists from around the country.
The founding sponsors of the program are Merrill Lynch, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Bloomberg, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, which form a unique partnership between business and media organizations.
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Students receive training on the Bloomberg terminals
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The overall goal of the program is to create a cadre of top-notch business reporters and editors, who can produce clear, balanced and insightful coverage of China’s markets and the global economy. Tsinghua University, one of China’s premier research and teaching institutions, host seminars, briefings, and field trips to supplement the demanding program. The program’s faculty also organize parallel training workshops for working journalists throughout the academic year. Bloomberg News contributed ten Bloomberg terminals for the program’s business media lab to provide students with access to real-time information and data in the business world.
GBJ will help make China’s markets more transparent and foster greater understanding between China and the international business community. ICFJ believes that transparency of the Chinese financial markets will lead to greater investor confidence and integration of China into the global financial infrastructure.
Program News Highlights
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 A veteran journalist who is co-director of ICFJ’s Global Business Journalism (GBJ) program at Tsinghua Univerisity in Beijing has written the first and only Chinese-language textbook on business and economic reporting.
Nailene Chou Wiest used her own experience as a reporter, along with lecture notes developed over six years of teaching business reporting, and additional research to write Reporting and Writing International Business News.
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 Despite a gloomy situation for newspapers, especially in the United States, a top executive of one of the world’s largest business media companies says the current era may prove to be a “golden age” for journalism.
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Bloomberg, one of the founding sponsors of the GBJ program, has committed to establishing, through the auspices of the International Center for Journalists, a Bloomberg Professor of business journalism at the journalism school at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Lee Miller, Bloomberg News editor-at-large in Asia, will start teaching in January 2010 as the Bloomberg Professor. Miller has been a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the GBJ program since its start, regularly traveling to Beijing to train students and faculty on how to use Bloomberg terminals and access real-time financial data.
ICFJ welcomes Bloomberg’s continued commitment to advancing quality business journalism in China. The Bloomberg Professor will further enhance the GBJ curriculum and directly benefit GBJ students at Tsinghua University.
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 Scholarship students from Tsinghua University’s Global Business Journalism program met recently with Merle A. Hinrichs, the chairman and CEO of Global Sources, and Alex Boome, corporate marketing and communications manager for Global Sources.
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 On June 10, an interview with Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics Robert Mundell by Jackie (Zijia) Bi, a MA student in the GBJ program at Tsinghua University, was featured in Economics 30 Minutes, a respected business TV news magazine program on CCTV-2, an economy focused channel of China’s national TV network.
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The latest issue of Academe, the bimonthly magazine of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) prominently featured the Global Business Journalism Program. Former managing editor of Academe, Wendi A. Maloney, who penned the article, interviewed GBJ's international faculty Ann Morrison and ICFJ’s vice president of development Vjollca Shtylla. Morrison and Shtylla shared their observations about the program.
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 On Dec. 10, 2008, the GBJ international faculty at Tsinghua University combined a teaching class with an open classroom to show the GBJ students how to cover large conferences. The idea of open classroom, initiated by the faculty in 2008, is intended to get GBJ students together to informally discuss topics of common interest. Anyone is free to participate and bring along friends if they like.
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 Global Business Journalism student Anna Zhou discusses the impact of the program in her studies and how it has helped her attain more experiences outside of the classroom.
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A professor at the ICFJ-Tsinghua Global Business Journalism Program, Gregg Fields, will be blogging about his experiences in Beijing. Check back often or stay up to date with the RSS feed.
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 China’s Education Minister Zhou Ji (left) visited the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua University on July 7 and singled out the school for “playing a leading role” in journalism education.
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This program is made possible by the generous support of these founding international sponsors: |
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The program is open to Chinese and international students. All applicants are required to pass an internationally recognized English-language test such as IELTS or TOEFL.
The minimum score for entry is 6 for the IELTS, 550 for the TOEFL Paper-based or 213 for the TOEFL Computer-based test.
The school will consider alternative assessments.
Application Deadline: March 30, 2009
To apply, please click here.
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View photos of the students at work on the Bloomberg terminals, professional journalists at the ethics workshops and international industry leaders at the November conference.
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