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Cai Indepth prelaunch, confused branding

Danwei previously linked to and commented on an anonymous blog post that suggested Richard Li (PCCW chief and son of Li Ka-shing, Asia's richest man) and Rupert Murdoch are launching a Bloomberg type news service covering China. We have not subsequently...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2010 8:21 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
Richard Li and Rupert Murdoch to join forces against Bloomberg?

Richard Li - "not happy"? Image source A pseudonymous blogger who apparently has some inside sources sent the following link to Danwei: Taking aim at Bloomberg, Hong Kong Billionaire Richard Li and Rupert Murdoch join forces Excerpt: Hong Kong...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 12:28 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

Filed under: Media business
Government push for news media company IPOs

The China Daily reports: Ten Chinese websites are to be listed in the domestic A-share stock market, according to media reports, with Shanghai-based eastday.com hoping to become the first to launch initial public offerings (IPO), analysts said. They include...

Published Mon, May 05 2010 8:25 PM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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Kerry Stokes and Seven Network in China

Wheeler dealer Kerry Stokes ( image source ) From the Australian Herald Sun : Media mogul Kerry Stokes has pledged greater co-operation between the Seven Network and Chinese state media at a meeting in Beijing with China's propaganda chief. Mr Stokes...

Published Fri, May 05 2010 1:13 AM by Danwei - Media, Advertising, and Urban Life in China

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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

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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

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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

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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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