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Foreign press gets a little help for Olympic coverage

To help foreign media confront the challenges posed by covering the Beijing Olympics, the International Federation of Journalists has teamed up with Play the Game, a non-profit democracy advocacy organization working in global athletic coverage, to... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Jul 02 2008

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