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China: birth of citizen journalism

ESWN has translated an article, “The Most Awesome Nailhouse” Gives Birth to “Citizen Journalism”, by Chen Wanying from yweekend. ...full story at Global Voices

from Global Voices on Mon, Apr 02 2007

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20 Jun 08 visit Citizen Journalists Bring Real Scoop on Beijing Olympics  »  YouTube videoGroundReport's Operation: Olympics coverage is proving the potential of organized, sophisticated citizen journalism with its daily video, photo and text updates. ... http://groundreport.com/
16 Jan 07 visit China: watchdog journalism prize  »  Global Voices David Bandurski from China media project summarizes the Chinese media’s criticism on Hunan “watchdog journalism” prize with some contextual information on the political meaning of “watchdog journalism” in China.
21 Aug 08 visit More than just adding oil  »  CN Reviews “Add fuel?”  “Let’s go?”  “Olé! Olé! Olé?” “Come on?”   One of the quirkier news stories that has come out of the Beijing Olympics is how to translate the ubiquitous Chinese cheer 加油 (jiāyó...
30 Mar 07 visit The Nailhouse Case and the Birth of Citizen Journalism  »  ESWN For the first time ever, netizens at various major portals (Tianya, MOP, Sina.com, NetEase.com, KDNet) began reporting live from the same news scene at the same time.
20 Jun 08 visit Saying ‘Hello’ to ‘Ni Hao’  »  China Journal In a changing China, it’s the little words that count. The shift of one short and sweet phrase, “ni hao,” from a formal greeting into an all-purpose equivalent of “hi” or “hey” is a case in point. Once reserved...
14 Jul 08 visit S.H.E.I.L.D.  »  Black China Hand “If you walk out of this building, you will be under surveillance in five to six different ways.” Jiu shi! For every recent “happy, happy, joy, joy” article written about China there are two or more articles that if “dug...

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