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Everyone's a journalist Mention "participatory media," and what comes to mind are blog conventions, crowd-sourced op-ed columns, Twitter feeds from disaster zones, and citizen journalists typing out eyewitness accounts of local, breaking situations. A slick, full-color magazine sponsored...
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Esquire , October 2008 The cover of the October issue of Esquire features Donnie Yen as Saint Sebastian by way of Muhammad Ali. Yen ( 甄子丹 ), a Hong Kong action star and fight choreographer currently on-screen in the supernatural love story Painted Skin , is known for his explosive fight scenes and the...
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The Founder , issue #1 With the economy looking increasingly uncertain, take your mind off the turbulent stock market by looking at two new business magazines devoted to corporate success: The Founder and Rich Weekly . The inaugural issue of The Founder (创业家) features a cover story on entrepreneur-of...
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Dou magazine, premiere issue (May 2008) Sun Rui, Lin Changzhi, and other writers have joined forces for Dou ( 逗 , "funny" or "tease"), an new magazine filled with irreverent parodies and other funny stuff. This issue of the magazine is published by Volumes Publishing Company under...
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0086 , August 2008 The August issue of 0086 promotes itself as a guide to the coolest stuff in Beijing. It's almost 300 pages worth of photos and articles about trendy people and places in the city. 0086 , a glossy lifestyle magazine, piggy-backs on the publication license of Music Magazine (音乐大观), which...
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0086 , August 2008 The August issue of 0086 promotes itself as a guide to the coolest stuff in Beijing. It's almost 300 pages worth of photos and articles about trendy people and places in the city. 0086 , a glossy lifestyle magazine, piggy-backs on the publication license of Music Magazine (音乐大观), which...
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So Rock #78 (August, 2008) The Shijiazhuang-based music magazine So Rock! (我爱摇滚乐) can usually be counted on to deliver an eye-catching cover every month ( this issue , from 2005, is a little more shocking than the one shown here). The print quality and layout of the magazine have risen substantially...
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In last place The thrill of victory may be satisfying enough for many Olympics spectators, but others may get tired of the relentless focus on the gold medal winners. Where's the agony of defeat in this year's harmonious Olympic Games? Liu Xiang came through on that front, but for less well-known failures...
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Stories , August 2008 Stories (故事会) is a hugely-popular magazine devoted to fiction, anecdotes, and other short-form literature. Its low cover price and mainstream content give it mass-market appeal; by some measures it is ranked #5 in the world in terms of monthly circulation. Many of its readers are...
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Cadillac Escalade and Victorinox ads These two print advertisements are found in the latest issue of Maxim (风度). Two totally different products, from different countries, in two completely different sizes, just happened to use the text "Veni, vidi, vici" (我来，我看（见），我征服 ), that famous quotation from Julius...