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Once again I find myself learning new things from my students here in China. The social media marketing strategies they proposed in class included techniques and platforms I was ignorant of. Their assignment was to recommend a strategy for a news organization or business that they would like to work for. They chose, among others, […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. The dilemma for journalism schools dealing with rapid technological change is to decide whether what they are teaching today will be relevant a few years from now. Many of the social media tools that are transforming journalism and society did not even exist just five years ago, said Mark Briggs, author […]
Read More »Versión en español aquí. New Yorker writer Evan Osnos is as fine a storyteller in person as he is in print. Tsinghua University journalism students left their texting thumbs idle Oct. 24 as he told how he profiled a former barber named Siu Yun Ping, who won close to $100 million at baccarat in Macau. Osnos […]
Read More »Reed Hundt A single digital marketplace where ideas and goods flow freely across borders offers great potential for economic growth. It also makes many national leaders worry about loss of control of their people and culture. Whether and how to control the Internet is the biggest unanswered question facing countries today, said Reed Hundt, who […]
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