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10 worst countries to be a blogger
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, the Committee to Protect Journalists puts together a list of the 10 worst countries to be a blogger. Visit their site to find out more about the 10 countries and the justification for inclusion. The list, in order, is below and Burma...more
Not down, not out, not yet
What with reports of newspapers being in survival mode, websites like Paper Cuts twisting the blade, Twitter channels like The Media is Dying dancing on the grave and research that reads like an obituary, any sane journalist must be thinking of shutting up shop, going home and seriously mulling their...more
Jaime FlorCruz working the China beat
Jaime FlorCruz, CNN Beijing bureau chief, talks about life of a foreign correspondent in China in the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The 57 year old FlorCruz has been based in China for the past seven years, “It took time and effort to overcome professional and nationality-related barriers, to stare down...more
LIVE event: Liu Heung Shing on China
[video:bliptv:1301208] Pulitzer winning photographer Liu Heung Shing is a renowned Chinese photographer and a former foreign correspondent. In a career spanning over 20 years he covered China, India, Korea, the US and former USSR for all the major publications. China: Portrait of a Country is the new photography volume edited...more
Video blogger arrested in Beijing
Friend of Frontline, Brian Conley has been arrested in Beijing. Brian is the brains behind the Alive in Baghdad blog and has helped us promote the Frontline Club live video channel. In an email his wife Eowyn tells us Brian was among 6 people recently arrested in Beijing, China while...more
Busted in Beijing
Kevin German gets his collar felt while shooting the arrest of a "scalper" in Beijing. Scalpers sell tickets for inflated prices to punters wanting a seat at the Olympics, Once the man was on the ground the other officer lunged at me again. He pushed me and hit me...more
Telegraph closes Berlin bureau
The Telegraph will close its Berlin bureau leaving the paper with just one foreign news desk in Europe reports The Guardian. A stringer is expected to replace Berlin correspondent Harry de Quettville who will return to London to work int he features department. The move leaves just Henry Samuel in...more
John Ray detained in China
[video:youtube:bdG0tpmKgbw] John Ray, ITV's China correspondent, was covering a Free Tibet protest in Beijing's main Olympic zone when he was detained by police earlier today. He managed to use his telephone from the back of the police van before the line went dead, "I have been roughed up. They dragged...more
Beijing Press pack detained
The Huffington Post reports that a plane carrying the White House press pack to Beijing was detained for three hours due to "logistical problems" Delays on landing have happened before, but no one on the plane was able to recall one this long. The plane landed at 2:10 a.m. local...more
The China Guide for snappers
Photo District News Online talked to ten photographers who have photographed in mainland China and asks their advice on how best to work in this heavily censored country, "Sometimes the political situation is dominant (anti-NATO riots 1999, the annual party congress), and sometimes it fades. But during the Olympics you...more
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