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Sina to buy Focus Media

Caijing magazine's websites confirms rumors that have been swirling around tech and media circles over the weekend: Internet giant Sina is to acquire Focus Media , the company that operates most of the digital screens that display annoying advertising...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2008 4:03 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
An ethical dilemma for literary magazines

Reportage launch issue, 1999 The revelation that Reportage , a magazine devoted to non-fiction, charged for the placement of complimentary articles, was greeted with a mixture of shocked outrage and jaded indifference. Although the "pay-to-print"...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 1:48 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
Xinhua relents: Financial news sector open

Xinhua , now faster and more attractive Mure Dickie and Kathrin Hille in The Financial Times report: China has opened its market to financial information providers, ending an attempt to give the official Xinhua news agency tight control over its foreign...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 6:30 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
Practicing journalism at a fashion magazine

Esquire , August 2008 To its admirers, Southern Metropolis Daily is a bastion of independent investigative journalism and astute commentary — a commercial paper with a social conscience. To its detractors, it's a den of rightists and traitors. The men...

Published Sat, Aug 08 2008 10:32 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Reuters buys stake in Hexun

From Paidcontent.org: Reuters Acquires Minority Stake in Chinese Financial Information Portal Reuters has acquired a minority stake in ChinaWeb, the parent company of Chinese financial information portal Hexun . Founded in 1996, Hexun is now one of China...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2008 5:59 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Praxis gets Internet contract for Confucius Institutes

Praxis Language, the company behind the popular Chinese learning podcast series Chinesepod , has signed an agreement with the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (or hanban to develop a web strategy for their Confucius Institutes...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 8:43 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Forbes to dump China publisher?

Forbes , the American magazine about getting and staying rich, has been publishing a Chinese edition since 2003. The glossy monthly magazine is officially published in Hong Kong, but it is aimed at Mainland readers and advertisers. A nod and wink arrangement...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 10:50 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
ZT Online and China's media "system"

Shi Yuzhu and his lucrative MMORPG. The Southern Weekly article on ZT Online , "The System," began to attract attention online even before it was pulled from portals and news websites. Some readers saw the article as a return to form for the newspaper...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2007 5:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Newspapers make for an ugly city

Blocking the sidewalk. For the last seven years, commuters on their way to work in Guiyang have found it hard to buy a morning paper. As part of a campaign to clean up the city's roadways, the capital of Guizhou Province cleared its sidewalks in 2001...

Published Mon, Dec 12 2007 4:36 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Stories of bad journalism

Zeng Pengyu, managing editor at Beijing Youth Daily , writes in a recent blog post of some experiences he's had with reporters who aren't as conscientious as they could be: Sketchy Reporters by Zeng Pengyu In the past I found it pretty hard to stomach...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2007 6:22 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Rumor: Cardboard baozi journalist beaten up to extract confession

This is an Internet rumor and so should be taken with a large grain of salt, but this Chinese blog is saying that the confession by the cardboard baozi journalist only happened after the journalist had been beaten to a pulp. For background to the case...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2007 5:23 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Hunan animation powerhouse Sequoia

Billsdue bloh has translated some interesting news about the animation industry in a post titled 'Caijing On Foreign Investment In China's Entertainment Industry'. Excerpt: Among the interesting tidbits mentioned is that Sequoia China has apparently closed...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2007 12:02 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Media Tyrannosaurs

Found via Mind Meters , the Youtube video below is titled Prometeus - The Media Revolution. It's a faux documentary look back at a new media revolution, seen from the year 2050 or so. It was made by an Italian company that does consulting work in social...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2007 1:06 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Murdoch's wife: censored profile to be published in China on Thursday

Coming to a newsstand near you on Thursday The profile of Rupert Murdoch's wife Deng Wendi that was spiked by the editors of Australian newspaper Good Weekend is to be published in Chinese news magazine New Century Weekly (新世纪周刊) this Thursday. The article...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2007 9:52 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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A Look at the Status of Magazine Publishing in China

Last May China hosted the 36th FIPP World Magazine Conference in Beijing. FIPP stands for International Federation of the Periodical Press, an organization that inlcudes 255 members in 57 countries worldwide, and that represents 110,000 magazine titles...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2007 12:45 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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