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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: "Does family or religion ever lead you to self-censor?"
You will need to register and create a profile in order to participate in IJNet discussions. Since we launched a redesigned IJNet site a few months ago, hundreds of you have already created profiles. So far, you are using IJNet to connect with your journalist peers, answer discussions and polls, solicit professional training opportunities, post your own questions and even hunt for jobs.
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The ICFJ-Tsinghua Global Business Journalism Program (GBJ)
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| GBJ Students research live business news on the state-of-the-art Bloomberg terminals. From left to right: Natalia Chapliuk, Lu Duobao (Milcah), Bob Yao, Liu Qi, (Crystal). |
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.
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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 Photos of students participating in the Global Business Journalism program.
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 Bob Dowling is one of the first international professors to teach in the Global Business Journalism Program that launched in September 2007 at Tsinghua University. In an interview with ICFJ’s Communications Director Dawn Arteaga, Dowling--a former assistant managing editor of BusinessWeek-- discusses the challenges of teaching business journalism in China—and explains how this young generation is blazing new paths.
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 BEIJING, CHINA - Four top students from the Tsinghua University Global Business Journalism Program (GBJ) will work at the Permanent Secretariat of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2008 in preparation for its annual conference.
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 On January 4, 2008, Tsinghua and ICFJ held a day-long workshop on Media Ethics for a group of 14 mid- to upper-level working Chinese journalists. Participants and trainers discussed Western newsroom failures like the New York Times’ Jayson Blair case and compared them to China's many ethical dilemmas. At left: Former Assistant Managing Editor of BusinessWeek and GBJ Professor Bob Dowling leads the workshop.
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 Executive Dean of the Tsinghua School of Journalism and Communication Li Xiguang illustrates the importance of GBJ in transforming Chinese journalism education in this short video.
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This program is made possible by the generous support of these founding international sponsors:
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.
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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