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GlobalPost: Daring, but Risky, Way to Reinvent Foreign Correspondence

The demise of foreign correspondence has been rightfully on many media outlet's agendas, including mine. My interest is there for an obvious reason: I was a foreign correspondent. This downturn started in Europe only at the end of the 1990s, but the ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  14 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  New York Times Company

China: Role of Foreign Media Waning Fast

"The dam is leaking all over the place," writes Roland Soong of East South West North (ESWN) in a thoughtful analysis of the changes China's Internet has faced over the past five years. Last weekend, China's most important bloggers gathered in the ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  18 Nov 2008

Beijing Olympics & Net Censorship: Who's Calling the Shots?

Covering the Olympics from China? Need uncensored net access? This new guide from Human Rights Watch explains how. The announcement on Wednesday there would be no free access to the Internet was obvious a major embarrassment for both the Beijing ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  31 Jul 2008

Wikipedia Bows to Dutch Politician, Alters Entry

The Dutch edition of Wikipedia recently agreed to remove information about a former politician's fraud conviction. From 1998-2002, Remak was a member of parliament for the People's Party for Democracy (VVD). This allowed her to receive a government ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  27 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Wikipedia

China Cracks Down on Video Hosts

China's State Administration of Radio, Film and TV (SARFT), the official regulatory body (some say the censor) of traditional audio-visual media, has been booking remarkable successes in curtailing that country's tremendously popular video hosts. ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  24 Jun 2008

Don't Mention Twitter!

Keep your mouth shut about Twitter. Let it be your secret edge to advance your journalistic career. The student responded with a depressed-sounding e-mail. He'd asked around, but none of his colleagues used Twitter. Most hadn't even heard of the ...

From FONS TUINSTRA, E-media Tidbits,  20 May 2008
Related Topics: Twitter Inc

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